SUR - 710 Subinternship: Surgery

Under supervision, the student assumes many of the duties and responsibilities of a resident physician. This includes responsibility for preoperative and postoperative care, participation in surgery, and rotating on the night on-call schedule. On-call responsibilities for the surgical sub-intern are at the level of the first year resident, namely, sub-interns will be the first member of the surgical team to see in-hospital consults, emergency room patients, and answer calls from the nurses. They will be supervised by in-house residents. The work is primarily with hospitalized patients, however, there is an opportunity to work with ambulatory and elective surgical patients. Independent library investigative projects are assigned. Required in M4 Year Credit Hours: (4)