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Surgery Clerkship
 Lorin
D. Whittaker, Jr, MD
Clerkship Director
Associate
Professor of Clinical Surgery
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American
College
of
Surgeons Annual Congress
San
Francisco
,
March 2003
Students and residents with Dr. Whittaker and
Dr. Estes |
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Message
from the Director
The
Surgery Clerkship is an eight week curriculum in the third year.
The learning objectives include recognition of disease states
requiring Surgery, critical planning for the proposed surgical
intervention, understanding of the principles of that intervention, and
post operative evaluation and management of the patient. Students have
four weeks rotation in General Surgery, two weeks in Trauma/Critical Care,
and two weeks on the Subspecialty service, which provides experience in
Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, and Breast Surgery. Also, students may
elect two weeks on rural General Surgery, and one week in Orthopedics,
Otolaryngology, Urology, Ophthalmology, and Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Responsibilities of students include assessments and care of inpatients
and outpatients, and active participation in surgical procedures. They are
graded on performance objectives of Intellectual Curiosity, Work Ethic,
Behavioral Skills, and Communication Skills. It is expected all students
will improve their understanding and practice of the Accreditation Council
for Graduate Medical Education competency skills (patient care, medical
knowledge, practice-based
learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills,
professionalism, and systems based practice), and these are inculcated
into
the
student
performance
assessment. The
students complete a required core surgical cases log,
entering operations in which they have participated. A minimum experience
of 25 procedures is required. Students are expected to participate in the
education of their team by researching patient care issues and presenting
their findings to their teams. Our residents complete the Residents as
Teachers course at the school, and add a major component to the student
learning. The Surgery Clerkship Final Grade is derived from the
performance evaluation of the students in the clinical setting (2/3rd
of the grade) and from the score on the standardized Surgery examination
of the National Boards of Medical Examiners (1/3rd of the
grade).Attending and resident faculty mentor the students during the Clerkship.
This provides student opportunity for collaboration with faculty on
research projects leading to publications/presentation at local, regional
and national meetings. Career counseling is also provided to students
seeking careers in Surgery. Eight weeks of surgical courses are required
in the senior year. For those students choosing a surgical career, the
mentoring continues into the fourth year relative to career selection,
strategies in the national residency match process, preparation for
residency, as well as in senior curriculum selection. This mentoring is on
a one-on-one basis, and is very successful and positive.
Lorin D. Whittaker, Jr., MD, FACS
Surgery
Clerkship Director
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STUDENT
SURGERY
AWARDS
2005 UIC Warren H. Cole Award
for Excellence in Surgical Studies
Jeremy
Cole
2005 UIC Nyhus Award
Ron
Kim
2005 UICOMP Surgery
Travel Award
Steven
Tsoraides
2004 UICOMP Surgery
Travel Award
Jay
Woodland
2003 UICOMP Surgery
Travel Award
Jay
Woodland
2003 UIC Warren H. Cole Award
for Excellence in Surgical Studies
Christina
Plakaitis (first time a UICOMP student had ever received this award)
2003 UIC Gold Foundation Award for Humanism in Medicine
Christian
Vercler
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