MED6008

Surgery (city/rural) and anaesthetics

(MED)

Mr J Dawson, Professor D Scott and Professor C Goodchild

5-week /student intern0 rotation and 9-week teaching blocks combined with medicine in a rural hospital, a private city hospital and the specialty wards and clinics of a major city teaching hospital.

Synopsis: The major city teaching hospital rotation consists of a continuous attachment to a surgical unit with admission and clerking of patients and involvement in technical aspects of their management; bedside clinical tutorials and surgical seminars; involvement in all unit activities including regular presentation of patient problems to junior and senior medical staff. In the private and rural hospital setting and the specialty clinic and unit attachment in the major city teaching hospital, involvement in outpatient clinics and ward-based activities with supervised clinical work including practise of procedural skills; formal and informal case presentations emphasising clinical diagnosis and problem solving skills as well as technical and patient management skills; attachment to an emergency service operating outside normal working hours in a rural setting. All environments provide teaching in theoretical and practical anaesthesia and two days of practical training in an operating theatre.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (satisfactory faculty requirement)