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510-692 Surgery

Year 6 Medicine.

Contact: Practical experience and tuition in specialty surgical areas and the emergency department.

Objectives:

The major objective of the final year surgical course is the provision of a broad base of general knowledge, skills and attitudes, which will provide sufficient detailed factual knowledge and practical skills to enable the student to recognise surgical problems, and to allow correct decisions to be made about management.

During the year the student is expected to: consolidate the bedside methods and skills learned in fourth and fifth years; acquire a greater depth of knowledge of surgically related disease, with emphasis on surgical investigation and management, through involvement in the activities of general surgical services. gain practical experience in a variety of surgical specialist services, which will provide a general understanding of the principles of examination, diagnosis and management; acquire the ability to undertake assessment and treatment of the injured and acutely ill patient, carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation, diagnose and treat simple fractures and joint injuries, undertake the care of clean wounds at non-critical sites; develop a general understanding of the methods employed in the conduct of general and local anaesthesia and the physiological aspects of the peri-operative period, basic skills in anaesthetic procedure.

Particular emphasis will be given to the acquisition and strengthening of clinical skills by involvement in patient care.

Content:

More detailed teaching in general surgery, with emphasis on surgical anatomy; surgical pathology; investigation and management; solid tumour oncology; the management of burns and processes of rehabilitation. Principles of specialty surgical areas, including cardiac and thoracic surgery; neurosurgery; spinal cord injury; orthopaedic surgery; plastic and reconstructive surgery; otorhinolaryngology; ophthalmology; and the surgical techniques of pain relief. Emergency department: initial assessment of injured or acutely ill patients; initial resuscitation of the seriously injured patient; technique and conduct of cardiopulmonary resuscitation; management of soft tissue injury; skin grafting and wound dressing; diagnosis and management of common fractures and joint injuries, including the application of splints and plaster casts. The methods employed in general and local anaesthesia; the pharmacology of anaesthetic agents; functioning of anaesthetic equipment; care of the unconscious patient; peri-operative care; the basic skills of anaesthetic procedures, including maintenance of an airway. May include some revision of overlap areas in other major disciplines.

Assessment:

A 3-hour end-of-year written examination; a 1-hour long-case presentation and a 20-minute confined short case/patient management oral at the end of the 14-week surgical rotation. Students must pass both the written and clinical/oral examinations.

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (Volume 4 page 139)

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