Pediatric Surgery Sub-internship
We offer a 4-week sub-internship in pediatric surgery to 4th year medical students. This will help you gain a greater understanding of the current concepts of pediatric surgery as related to normal pediatric growth and development, pathophysiology, pediatric evaluation and assessment, diagnosis and clinical management, and rehabilitation of common pediatric surgical diseases.
Objectives
- Develop better skills at seeing and evaluating pediatric patients with surgical pathology
- Improve baseline surgical knowledge
- Develop a beginning understanding of the basis of fluid and electrolyte management in the pediatric patient, including appropriate fluid volumes, gastrointestinal replacements, and blood volumes.
- Participate in common pediatric surgeries including appendicitis, hernias, pyloric stenosis as well as congenital surgical disease.
- Advance personal knowledge of pediatric surgical care in a variety of settings including, examination of sick and well children, preoperative preparation, surgical intervention, recovery phase stabilization, discharge education, and follow-up patient management.
- Actively participate in educational opportunities at the weekly surgery, and trauma conferences.
Description
- The medical student will participate in all aspects of the pediatric surgery team. They will start their day at 6am with surgery team with sign out, will follow with residents to OR, on rounds and see consults. Will perform evaluations as directed by team including daily notes, post op notes, and consults. Will attend outpatient clinic one day per week and will round with POW (teaching attending) when not otherwise scrubbed in OR.
- Call Duty: one overnight call shift per week and one or two 24 hr weekend shifts during the rotation. Will be expected to give presentations of patients following and hand in one complete write-up to elective director to be discussed before end of rotation.
