Department of Surgery: Pages For Current Residents

Residents as Teachers

Residents play an important role in the education of medical students. Here is some helpful information.

Learning objectives: Each of the surgery services has a set of learning objectives that pertain to the medical students. Residents are advised to access these objectives on a regular basis to ensure that medical students are thoroughly trained.

Topics for Medical Student Oral Exam: Students will be tested by two different attending examiners. They will either be assigned, or asked to select, two topics to discuss, one from List A and one from List B.

List A	List B
Acute Abdomen	Shock
Burn Management	Blunt Trauma
Intestinal Obstruction	Upper GI Bleeding
Breast Mass	Fluid / Electrolyte
Jaundice	Neck Mass
Scrotal Pain / Mass	Abdominal Mass
Post-Operative Fever	Post-Operative Oliguria
Vomiting Baby	Claudication
Skin Lesions

Required Skills for Medical Students

Click to see the Core Surgical Procedure Checklist.

Rules for Supervising Medical Students During Their In-House Call

Medical students are required to take call. They are expected to find the resident on call for the evening and stay with that resident unless instructed otherwise. (Do not sign the student's COSPRO card unless they adhere to these rules.)
When you are on call, please keep the medical students involved with the clinical activities. They should be with you if you're called to evaluate a patient in the ER, to see a patient on the floor or in the ICU, or are going to the OR.
You might also teach the students how to tie knots, talk to them about fluids, TPN, bowel obstruction, or review one of the topics for their oral exam.
The more you teach, the more you learn about what you know and don't know.

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