Course Catalog

 
92-503 NEUROSURGERY ELECTIVE
Department SURGERY Campus Montgomery
Course Type(s) Third Year Elective, Elective Facility UAB Montgomery Regional Medical Campus
Course Director NINH DOAN, MD Enrollment Limit 1
Contact BRITNEY SELLERS Enrollment Minimum 1
Email britneyc@uab.edu Address UAB Montgomery Regional Medical Campus
2119 E South Blvd., Suite 304
Montgomery, AL 361162946
Phone (334) 398-0853 Fax (334) 284-7542
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-16, 18-19, 20-21, 22-23, 24-25, 28-29, 30-31, 32-33, 34-35, 36-37, 38-39, 40-41, 42-43, 45-46, 47-48, 49-50, 51-52
Prerequisites * * * WRITTEN APPROVAL REQUIRED * * * NO PREREQUISITES AVAILABLE. CONTACT DEPARTMENT. 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites: Medicine, Surgery
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. 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 rounds 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, and vascular disease. Learning Objectives: 1. Perform a neurological evaluation; 2. Become familiar with neurosurgical investigative methods; 3. Develop an understanding of the breadth of neurosurgery; 4. Gain exposure to neuroimaging and become familiar with the different imaging modalities used for neurosurgery, such as CT and MRI; 5. Provide a patient presentation with specific neurosurgery indicated procedures.
Where To Report Baptist South, Surgery Unit, 0700
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 as the schedule allows and as these opportunities are available. The student is also required to attend rounds, conferences and outpatient clinics as assigned. The student will give a patient presentation which follows a patient case through surgery and post-operatively. Call is required once a week as directed by course director; work hour limits will be followed.
Evaluation Pass/Fail. Composite evaluation based on attendance, participation, clinical evaluation and presentation skills. As well as application of knowledge from cases experienced over the course of the elective schedule.
Notes General schedule of planned activities:

Student will report to Dr. Doan in the mornings for rounds, then will be present with Dr. Doan for surgeries, procedures, and clinic as instructed by Dr. Doan. Student will also have the opportunity to participate in on-call cases/ trauma cases that are associated with neuro surgery. When not in surgery the student should seek to participate in other surgeries that may have neurological association. The schedule shall resemble the following: Surgery days will be MWF and clinic and review days shall be Tuesday and Thursday. It is the student's responsibility to review the topics discussed during and after surgery and be prepared to present new findings and apply knowledge in discussion on future cases as well as those seen in clinic.