Traverse City Campus
Electives - Surgery
Anesthesiology Elective
SUR 618
Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Junior Surgery clerkship. Availability is limited.
Objectives:- Demonstrate improved skill in airway management.
- Understand the preoperative evaluation and preparation of the surgical patient.
- Enhance understanding of critical care physiology and pharmacology.
- Gain practical experience with invasive hemodynamic monitoring.
- Understand the basic approach to administering a general anesthetic.
This elective offers individualized teaching in the preoperative and postoperative methods of assessment and management of patients undergoing anesthesia prior to surgery.
Cardiovascular Surgery Elective
SUR 619
Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Junior Surgery clerkship. Availability is limited.
Objectives:- Become familiar with the management of patients in a cardiac surgical intensive care setting.
- Understand the approach to the preoperative evaluation and preparation of a patient for cardiac surgery.
- Enhance knowledge of cardiac and pulmonary physiology.
- Gain practical experience with invasive hemodynamic monitoring.
This elective is designed to familiarize the student with the basic principles and techniques of cardiovascular surgery. Cardiac and pulmonary physiology are strongly emphasized and students receive exposure to the intensive care unit. Students will also care for patients on the general units as they progress toward discharge.
Neurosurgery Elective
SUR 614
Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Junior Surgery clerkship. Availability is limited.
Objectives:- Become familiar with the preoperative and postoperative management of the neurosurgical patient.
- Become familiar with the basic approach to neurosurgical emergencies.
- Increase understanding of clinical neuroanatomy and the pathophysiology of brain injury.
This elective is designed to acquaint the student with the broad scope of neurosurgery. Students are exposed to patients with neurosurgical emergencies, neurosurgical trauma, and elective neurosurgical procedures.
Orthopaedic Surgery Elective
SUR 613
Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Junior Surgery clerkship. Availability is limited.
Objectives:- Recognize the steps in the evaluation and management of common orthopaedic problems in an outpatient setting.
- Demonstrate improved skills in the management of hospitalized patients including operative management.
- Demonstrate improved skill in the management of emergency room orthopaedic problems such as fracture reduction and soft tissue care.
Students will be assigned to an orthopaedic physician group and will see a variety of inpatient and outpatient cases.
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Elective
SUR 610
Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Junior Surgery clerkship. Availability is limited.
Objectives:- Become familiar with the broad scope of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
- Understand the basic preoperative and postoperative approach to the evaluation and management of patients requiring functional, reconstructive, and cosmetic procedures.
- Have an increased understanding of the role of the plastic surgeon in the management of injury.
Students have the opportunity to see patients in inpatient and outpatient settings. The medical student is expected to perform the preoperative workup on selected surgical admissions, assist the surgical team, and follow patients postoperatively.
General Surgery Elective
SUR 619
Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Junior Surgery clerkship. Availability is limited.
Objectives:- Understand the approach to the preoperative and postoperative management of the surgical patient.
- Increase understanding of the pathophysiology of surgical disease.
- Increase understanding of ambulatory surgical care.
This elective is designed to familiarize the student with a broad range of surgery including trauma, nutrition, critical care, GI, endocrine, breast, oncology, and vascular procedures. The pathophysiology, preoperative evaluation, and postoperative management of problems is stressed. Every attempt will be made to allow the student to follow the patient from admission to discharge and take an active role in the care and management of assigned patients.
Rural Surgery Elective
SUR 612
Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Junior Surgery clerkship. Availability is limited.
Objectives:- Understand the approach to preoperative and postoperative management of the surgical patient in a rural setting.
- Increase understanding of the pathophysiology of surgical disease.
- Enhance understanding of inpatient and ambulatory surgical care in a rural setting.
Students will be assigned to work with a general surgeon in a rural community in northern Michigan (student’s desired location is strongly considered). Students will be given the opportunity to increase their knowledge of surgical patient care in a rural setting.
Ophthalmology Elective
SUR 615
Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Junior Surgery clerkship. Availability is limited.
Objectives:- Demonstrate increased clinical judgment related to ophthalmologic diagnosis.
- Demonstrate increased knowledge of diagnostic tests and patient management related to ophthalmologic problems.
This elective will offer the student insight into what an ophthalmologist does in evaluating and treating patients. Students will gain experience in diagnosis and treatment of medical, emergency, and surgical ophthalmologic problems.
Urology Elective
SUR 611
Prerequisite: Fourth year medical students who have successfully completed their Junior Surgery clerkship.
Objectives:- Demonstrate an increased knowledge of preoperative evaluation, surgical management, and postoperative care of urologic patients.
- Demonstrate improved skills in interviewing and examining patients with urologic disorders.
This elective is designed to introduce students to the clinical manifestations of genitourinary disease, and the methods and techniques of diagnosis and management of those conditions. Students will work in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
