International Visiting Medical Student Course Catalog

 
80-512 HIGHLANDS GENERAL SURGERY
Department SURGERY Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Surgery AI-Inpatient, Elective, Elective AI Facility UAB Medical Center
Course Director JOHN R. PORTERFIELD, MD Enrollment Limit 1
Contact ESPIRITUS (Sandy) CHAMBLISS Enrollment Minimum 1
Email echambliss@uabmc.edu Address Boshell Diabetes Building - 202
1808 7th Avenue South, BDB 202-F
Birmingham, AL 35233
Phone (205) 934-1157 Fax
Prerequisites Successful completion of surgery clerkship. Surgery, Family Medicine, Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry
Course Description The student will function as an acting intern on this service. Students will be exposed to a broad spectrum of GI diseases encountered by general surgeons. Students will be assigned direct patient care responsibilities to be undertaken under the supervision of both faculty members and the house staff. The student will be responsible for direct presentations to the faculty on a daily basis and will be supervised in the operating room by those faculty members. Students are expected to learn principles of gastrointestinal disease, both pathophysiology and normal physiology and are exposed to the multidisciplinary approach for the management of gastrointestinal pathology. Faculty members on this service include Drs. John Porterfield, Britney Corey, Richard Stahl, and others.
Where To Report For reporting instructions, please contact the Highlands general surgery chief resident via the UAB Paging Operator at (205) 934-3411 three or four days prior to the start date.
Requirements See course description.
Evaluation Pass/Fail. Direct faculty and resident evaluation of student performance on service. The student will be assessed for the likelihood of success in general surgery residency.
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