Course Catalog

 
80-413 NEUROSURGERY ACTING INTERNSHIP
Department NEUROSURGERY Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Other AI-Ambulatory, Surgery AI-Inpatient, Elective AI Facility UAB Medical Center
Course Director MARSHALL HOLLAND, MD Enrollment Limit 4
Contact MARSHALL HOLLAND, MD Enrollment Minimum 1
Email mtholland@uabmc.edu Address LHFOT 1038
Phone 205-934-2654 Fax
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 18-21, 22-25, 28-31, 32-35, 36-39, 40-43, 45-48, 49-52
Prerequisites Successful completion of surgery clerkship. 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites: Surgery, Family Medicine, Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description The student serves as a clinical clerk on the Neurosurgical Service under the direct supervision of a member of the attending staff and a neurosurgical resident. The student is assigned responsibility for selected new patients for initial neurological work-up and for daily evaluation and progress notes. The student is expected to attend the daily conferences and organized teaching sessions. The student may assist in the operating room or view neurosurgical procedures as the circumstances indicate. The objective is to allow the student to familiarize himself/herself with the more common neurological and neurosurgical disorders and to gain competence in the performance of an adequate neurological examination. The student also is familiarized with the usual neurosurgical investigative methods, indications, and limitations of the various studies. The broad clinical experience that is available is well distributed in the fields of nervous system trauma, neoplasms, vascular disease, and congenital disorders and hydrocephalus. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. Perform a neurological evaluation 2. Become familiar with neurosurgical investigative methods 3. Develop an understanding of the breadth of neurosurgery
Where To Report NICU Conference Room, 8th Floor, North
Pavilion, UAB Hospital
Requirements This is a patient care centered service. Time will be spent in the operating room, on the wards, in the clinic and at neurosurgical conferences. The student is also required to attend rounds, conferences and outpatient clinics as assigned. The student will give a presentation on a neurosurgical topic. Call is required once a week with one weekend (either Saturday or Sunday) call; work hour limits will be followed.
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NOTE: Visiting students must take 80-413E NEUROSURGERY CAREER ELECTIVE
Evaluation Composite evaluation based on attendance, participation, clinical evaluation and presentation skills.
Notes The student may elect a general assignment or may select the particular area in the neurosurgical field in which the student has a primary interest; for example, neural trauma, spine, vascular, tumor. Flexibility is available in the assignments.

NOTE: Visiting students must take 80-413E NEUROSURGERY CAREER ELECTIVE