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MANDATORY

  • Advanced Laparoscopic Skills Course
  • Emergent/Vascular Skills Course
  • Robotic Surgical Skills Course
  • IRB Training
  • Residents as Teachers
  • Ethics I

Advanced Laparoscopic Skills Course
Course Directors: Attending Faculty: Ravindra Vegunta, MD and David Crawford, MD
PGY 3 and 4 Surgery Residents
Semi-annual, one-day course
Residents work in teams under the supervision of the course directors to perform laparoscopic surgical procedures in a porcine lab.  Procedures include Nissen fundoplication, bowel anastomosis, nephrectomy and adrenalectomy.  Each course begins with two didactic lectures.

Emergent/Vascular Skills Course
Course Director: Attending Faculty: Ravindra Vegunta, MD
Instructors: Richard C. Anderson, MD and Syed Hussain, MD
PGY 1 and 2 Surgery Residents
Semi-annual, one-day course
Residents work in teams under the supervision of the instructors and the course director to perform vascular and emergent procedures in a porcine lab. Procedures include venous cutdown, vascular anastomosis, tracheostomy and chest tube placement.

Introduction to Robotic Surgical Skills
Course Directors: Attendiug Faculty:
Ravindra Vegunta, MD and David Crawford, MD
PGY 1 and 2 Surgery Residents
One-time, one-day course
This course utilizes the surgical robot in the OR at the teaching hospital. Participants receive a didactic lecture, a hands-on training session in setting-up the robot, and individual practice using the robot.

IRB Training
Course Directors: UICOMP IRB Office
PGY 1, 2 & 3
Surgery Residents
One-time, 4 day course
PGY 1, 2 & 3 Surgery residents are scheduled to complete this course one time during their residency.  It occurs Tuesday through Friday of the 2nd week of every month.  Its goal is to gain a standard level of knowledge about the human subjects research review process under the federal rules and regulations in order to gain competency to perform ethically as a principal investigator of a human subjects research protocol. The training includes a HIPAA Certification m
odule which renders a certificate upon satisfactory completion.

Residents as Teachers Workshop
UICOMP DES Office (Division of Educational Services)
PGY 1 Surgery Residents
One-day workshop in September or October

Residency programs rely not only on their faculty, but also on their residents to teach medical students and each other.  Even though residents are expected to teach, they often receive little instruction on how to teach.  This program’s focus is to provide residents with the educational skills needed to fulfill their teaching obligations during residency.

Topics covered include:

  • Characteristics of effective teaching
  • Study skills
  • Organizational and leadership skills
  • Clinical teaching microskills
  • Basics of effective feedback

Ethics I
Course Director: Richard Frederick, M.D., UICOMP Emergency Medicine
All PGY1 Residents one time
2 - 1/2 day sessions
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires that the study of medical ethics be incorporated into all residency programs.

ELECTIVE

Residents as Teachers Voluntary Program
UICOMP DES Office (Division of Educational Services)

Any level Resident
One to two two-hour sessions each month for eight months of the year from November through June
A voluntary longitudinal program that addresses specific teaching skills needed during the various years of residency.   Residents have two years to complete the eight required sessions and four elective sessions.

Required Sessions:    

  • Setting goals and expectations
  • Providing effective feedback
  • Small group teaching
  • Microskills-one-on-one clinical teaching strategies
  • Dealing with problem students
  • Teaching procedures
  • Evaluation
  • OSTE with standardized students

Elective Sessions:

  • Presenting a formal presentation
  • How to manage a team
  • Providing effective feedback part II
  • Using Aunt Minnie and RIME teaching models
  • How to deliver bad news
  • Other topics to be announced

Practice Management
UICOMP GME Office
A two-day course offered to Senior Residents and their spouses/significant others.
Conducted by a professional management consultant, this course not only includes information for those residents who are planning on going into private practice, but also includes personal and professional financial and legal information that is important to all Senior Residents.

  • Understand current health care issues
  • Find the practice opportunity that’s right for you
  • Negotiate a favorable employment agreement
  • Take control of your finances
  • Understand investing and retirement plans
  • Work effectively with professional advisors
  • Develop a practice business plan
  • Build your practice
  • Understand principles of accounting
  • Collect your fees from patients and their insurance plans
  • Work with managed care plans
  • Hire quality employees and build a strong team
  • Operate an efficient practice

 

 

 

 

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