Course Catalog

 
80-434 ADULT HEART SURGERY
Department SURGERY Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Surgery AI-Inpatient, Elective AI Facility UAB Medical Center
Course Director JAMES E DAVIES, MD Enrollment Limit 2
Contact LIZA HOLMAN Enrollment Minimum 1
Email elholman@uabmc.edu Address ZRB 710
Phone (205) 996-7588 Fax
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 18-21, 22-25, 32-35, 36-39, 40-43, 45-48
Prerequisites Medicine, Surgery Clerkships 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites: Medicine, Surgery, Family Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry
Visiting Students
Accepts students from US LCME accredited schools.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description Introduce the student to multi-disciplinary care of cardiac surgery patients with heart disease. The student/acting intern will work with the cardiac surgeons during acting internship and follow the care of the patients from preop to postoperative discharge. Course Format: Daily disciplinary rounds; weekly CT surgery education conferences; monthly morbidity and mortality; monthly journal club; simulation lab. Student Learning Objectives: 1) Introduction to cardiac pathology anatomy. 2) Introduction to pathophysiology of congenital disease. 3) Introduction to diagnostic techniques to include echocardiography, cardiac angiography, cardiac CT angiography, cardiac MRI.
Where To Report 7:00am CICU, NW Pavilion, UAB Medical Center, 619 19th Street S, Birmingham, AL 35294.
Requirements Daily attendance at multi-disciplinary rounds. Attendance required in the operating room for surgical cases. Presentation at journal club. Attendance of conferences as mentioned in course format. Presentation at Case Conference.

For students/ acting interns looking to fulfill Surgical Acting Internship status: they are expected to round at least one weekend during the rotation and attend any emergency operation performed during that weekend.

For students taking the course as an elective having fulfilled the status of acting internship, the weekend call will be optional.
Evaluation Pass/Fail.
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