Applying to Residency
Introduction Applying to residency is an enigma that both frightens you and excites you simultaneously. You get to have a glimpse of many possible futures fo...
Clerkship student resources
Clerkship students can be vital members of the surgical team, but being one requires you to know several aspects of how a surgical service and operating room work, which is something that is not taught prior to starting your surgical clerkship. Hopefully these topics will better equip you to hit the ground running, your first day on the surgical service, and ease your transition.
What to Carry on Rounds
Introduction Morning rounds and dressing changes are a great place for students to get involved and help the team, especially with the patients the student i...
Drains, Wounds and Dressings
Link to Drains, Wounds, and Dressings workshop for surgery clerkship students
How to Help in the OR
Introduction The OR is a foreign place for many medical students on their surgery clerkship. Coupling this with the whirlwind nature of the OR and the studen...
How to Prepare for the OR
Introduction Preparing for the OR is a daunting task as a medical student. Depending on what resources you use you may get way too deep into the technical as...
Post-operative fever
Introduction Few topics overlap so well with the surgery shelf exam and the daily clinical duties of a core clerkship student on their surgery rotation as we...
How to Pull Numbers
Introduction Even if you don’t start your core clinical year with surgery, you will likely run into the phrase “pulling numbers” quickly. Pulling numbers is ...
How to Present a Surgery Patient
Introduction Post-op surgery presentations are often an intimidating task for students. This is understandable considering they are quick, poignant, and vari...
The Surgery Shelf Exam
Introduction Some say the surgery shelf is actually a medicine shelf. I would disagree with this. The surgery shelf is really much more of a perioperative sh...
What do I do with my (sterile) hands (in the OR)?!
Introduction Ricky Bobby said it best, “I don’t know what to do with my hands!”. As a student scrubbed into a surgery, you feel like the pressure is on to ke...