Course Catalog

 
91-912 SURGICAL GYNECOLOGY
Department OB/GYN Campus Tuscaloosa
Course Type(s) Elective, Critical Care AI Facility DCH Regional Medical Center
Course Director SACHIN SHENOY, MD Enrollment Limit 1
Contact KRISTA TRIMM Enrollment Minimum 1
Email Ktrimm@ua.edu Address University Medical Center
850 Peter Bryce Blvd.
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
Phone (205) 348-9856 Fax (205) 348-4429
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 1-2, 1-4, 3-4, 5-6, 5-8, 7-8, 9-10, 9-12, 11-12, 13-14, 13-16, 15-16, 18-19, 18-21, 20-21, 22-23, 22-25, 24-25, 28-29, 28-31, 30-31, 32-33, 32-35, 34-35, 36-37, 36-39, 38-39, 40-41, 40-43, 42-43, 45-46, 45-48, 47-48, 49-50, 49-52, 51-52
Prerequisites Successful completion of the core internal medicine and surgery clerkships and any clerkship which covers the content material of the requested elective or acting internship course (e.g. Pediatric Clerkship must be successfully completed prior to taking a Pediatric Elective or AI). 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites: Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Surgery
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description Surgical Gynecology is a 2 or 4 week elective designed especially for 4th year medical students who plan to pursue postgraduate training in either Obstetrics or General Surgery. The student operates with all the GYN and General and Subspecialty Surgery Staff at DCH Regional Medical Center. He/she scrubs with the medical school Faculty 7-12 a.m. on Mondays and Fridays and other times during the week as needed. Every day from 12 noon until 2 p.m. and on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings he/she scrubs with the clinical GYN Faculty that have cases in both the main and outpatient operating rooms. Between 9 a.m. and 12 noon on Tuesdays through Thursdays and every afternoon after 2 p.m. he operates with the General and Subspecialty Surgeons that do not have medical students on their service. When not in surgery the student will attend the didactive sessions and especially the procedures lectures which include knot-typing and surgical sewing. There is no night or weekend call. There are no clinics. The entire elective is inpatient care. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 1. Expand surgical skills learned in 3rd year to prepare for residency 2. Further acquaint the the medical student planning a general surgery residency with the pelvis and gynecologic procedures. 3. Expand the knowledge of the student going into OB/GYN with abdominal surgery, closures, surgical complications and management. 4. Give the 4th year student more responsibility both in the Operating Room and in managing sicker, more complicated patients. 5. Bridge medical school and intern responsibilities
Where To Report Reach out to course contact at least 4 weeks prior to start date.
Requirements See course description
Evaluation Pass/Fail
Notes