Course Catalog

 
80-508 ACUTE CARE SURGERY ACTING INTERNSHIP
Department SURGERY Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Surgery AI-Inpatient, Elective AI Facility UAB Medical Center
Course Director Kimberly M. Hendershot, MD Enrollment Limit 1
Contact MARIA A TYSON Enrollment Minimum 1
Email mtyson@uabmc.edu Address Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
1808 7th Avenue South, BDB 615
Birmingham, AL 35294
Phone (205) 934-4903 Fax (205) 975-7294
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:
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description The Acute Care Surgery AI course is designed to provide the student with a more intensive and extensive experience in all aspects of care of patients with emergent general surgery needs. Clinical aspects include the initial evaluation, assessment, resuscitation, and definitive care of patients with acute, emergent surgical problems. The student serves as the Acting Intern on a service with supervision from surgical residents and ACS attendings. Routine duties include rounding on and presenting established patients on the team, seeing new consults and admissions and staffing them with the chief resident and/or the attending, and active involvement in the management of those consults/admissions, whether non-operative or operative. There is direct supervision of the intra-operative experience by the resident house staff and faculty members. Learning Objectives: The overall goal of this course is to prepare the student to be a competent and capable intern, whether surgical intern or other specialty. During the rotation, students will a.) formulate assessments and care plans based on history, physical exam findings, and laboratory/radiologic data; b.) practice presenting new and established patients, of varying degree of complexity, to house staff and faculty members; c.) demonstrate basic surgical skills and knot-tying techniques in the operating room, with supervision and feedback from resident house staff and faculty members; d.) develop skills and confidence associated with being a productive and efficient intern.
Where To Report Phone/page the PGY-2 Resident or Chief Resident on the service for time and location of rounds on the first day of the
rotation. (Course contact number: 205-934-4903)
Requirements One or two overnight on-call will be required.
Evaluation Pass/Fail;
Notes