SURG 9521 Sub-Internship in Trauma and Critical Care Surgery
This course provides senior students with a broad exposure to surgical critical care. Students will be assigned to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at UTRGV affiliate sites. There is no required outpatient clinic component. Academic ICU rounds occur daily. Students will be responsible for presenting 1-2 ICU patients daily. Participation in weekly general surgery educational conferences as well as separate SICU educational conference is mandatory. Students will participate in daily teaching rounds as well as intensive care procedures. They will also be expected to assist in overnight in-house trauma surgery call (average once weekly).
Prerequisites: Successful completion of MS3 Surgical Clerkship, SURG 9110.
Offered
As scheduled