Table 1.
Virtual surgical clerkship contents.
| Required Patient Care Encounter Topic | |
|---|---|
| Acute abdomen | |
| Appendicitis- | TBD/WISE |
| Bowel obstruction | Estell Williams/WISE |
| Bowel perforation | Dan Kim |
| Surgical Oncology | |
| Breast | Meghan Flanagan/WISE |
| Skin | David Byrd/WISE |
| Sarcoma | Teresa Kim |
| Endocrine | |
| Thyroid | Nicole Zern/WISE (nodule) |
| Parathyroid | Nicole Zern/WISE (hypercalcemia) |
| Adrenal | Nicole Zern/WISE (adenoma) |
| GI | |
| Esophageal | |
| Benign | Roger Tatum |
| Malignant | Farhood Farjah |
| Colon | |
| Benign | Sarah Atkinson/WISE (anorectal, diverticulitis) |
| Malignant | Mukta Krane/WISE (colon cancer) |
| Gallbladder | Zoe Parr/WISE (cholescytitis) |
| Hernia | Rebecca Petersen- Ventral |
| Nick Certrulo/WISE (inguinal) | |
| Vascular | |
| Carotid | Elina Quiroga/WISE (stenosis) |
| Aortic | Sherene Shalhub/WISE (AAA) |
| PVD | Matthew Sweet |
| Postop check | Theresa Wang |
| Pain management | TBD |
| Wound care | Theresa Wang |
| Secondary topics: Not an encounter but could appear on the test. | |
| Orientation and OR overview | Kris Calhoun |
| Bariatrics | Judy Chen/WISE |
| Hepatobiliary- Liver focus | Jonathan Sham |
| Pancreas | Venu Pillarisetty/WISE (pancreatitis) Catherine Straub |
| Cardiac | Lara Oyetunji |
| Thoracic | Kathleen Berfield/WISE (Lung cancer) |
| Trauma | Trauma Staff TBD/WISE (resuscitation) |
| Burns | Tam Pham/WISE |
| SICU | Lorrie Langdale |
| Pediatrics | Caitlin Smith/WISE (pyloric stenosis and hernia) |
| Plastics | Sarah Goldsberry-Long |
| MIS overview | Andrew Wright |
| Transplant | Catherine Kling |