SURGERY
Course name and number: Surgery Acting Internship (LSU-MCLNO) SURG 419a.
Faculty:
Dr. John Hunt
Dr. Alan Marr
Dr. Glen Steeb
Dr. Yi-Zarn Wang Hunt
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability: All blocks and summer
Number of students: 2
Objectives:
A four-week course offering extensive clinical experience in general surgery at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans. The student's responsibility will approximate those of an intern.
Means of Implementation:
The student will participate in pre-operative evaluation, operative care and post-operative care of patients. The student will be expected to participate in all rounds and seminars in the surgical service, and to read extensively on clinical and post-operative problems of the student's assigned patients..
Method of Evaluation:
Will be graded by staff and residents.
Course name and number: Surgery Acting Internship (LSU-UMC, Lafayette) SURG 419h.
Faculty:
Dr. Charles Chappuis
Dr. Daniel Frey
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability: All blocks and summer
Number of students: 2
Objectives, Means of Implementation, Method of Evaluation:
A four-week course at University Medical Center in Lafayette, LA which is similar to Surg 419a.
Course name and number: Surgery Acting Internship (LSU-EKL, Baton Rouge) SURG 419i.
Faculty:
Dr. Chapman Lee
Dr. Benton Dupont
Dr. Samuel Harelson
Dr. Brent Allain
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability: All blocks and summer
Number of students: 4
Objectives, Means of Implementation, Method of Evaluation:
A four-week course at Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital similar to Surg 419a.
EARL K. LONG MEMORIAL HOSPTIAL
5825 AIRLINE HIGHWAY, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 70805
Located in Louisiana’s capital city, Baton Rouge, Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital is a 238-bed hospital operated by the State of Louisiana. The hospital was opened in March 1968. An architecturally interesting design provides the hospital with a unique arrangement of patient rooms surrounding a central nurse’ station on either end of the building. In-patient, outpatient and emergency care is provided to an urban and rural patient population of about 700,000 in a seven-parish area surrounding Baton Rouge. An excellent medical library is available at all times for reference and study. There is immediate access to the resource libraries of the LSU Medical Center and Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans to provide additional needed materials.
Full-time faculty members of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, based at Baton Rouge, direct the approved residency programs at Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital. In addition, resident staff members in a number of specialties are rotated to EKLMH as part of their training in the programs of the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans.
Baton Rouge is the center of a rich cultural section of the South where many nationalities can be discovered through a variety of culinary experiences. New Orleans, with its many fine restaurants and other attractions, is only an hour’s drive from Baton Rouge. The Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are easily accessible over good highways. The excellent climate allows the serious sportsman to enjoy year-round fishing and hunting opportunities as well as tennis, golf, swimming, water skiing and boating.
Course name and number: Surgery Clinical Clerkship (LSU-EA Conway, Monroe) SURG 423c
Faculty:
Dr. Lester Wayne Johnson
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability:To be determined on an individual basis
Number of students: 4
Objectives:
A four-week course offering extensive clinical experience in general surgery at the Medical Center of Louisiana at Monroe (E.A. Conway Hospital). The student's responsibility will approximate those of an intern.
Means of Implementation:
The student will participate in pre-operative evaluation, operative care and post-operative care of patients. The student will be expected to participate in all rounds and seminars in the surgical service, and to read extensively on clinical and post-operative problems of the student's assigned patients.
Method of Evaluation:
Will be graded by staff and residents.
Course name and number: General and Vascular Surgery (West Jefferson Medical Center) SURG 426w.
Faculty:
Dr. Robert Batson
Dr. Malachi Sheahan
Dr. Claudie Sheahan
Dr. Hernan Bazan
Dr. Tapash Palit
Dr. Charles Thomas
Dr. Robert Cummiskey
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability: All blocks
Number of students: 1
Objectives:
A four-week course at West Jefferson Medical Center and private offices offering extensive clinical experience in general and vascular surgery.
Means of Implementation:
The student will be expected to perform a complete history and physical on each patient, and will assist in surgery and post-operative care. Daily teaching rounds will be conducted and the student will be given reading assignments. Informal conferences relating to clinical material will be conducted and the student will be expected to attend weekly General Surgery Conference and weekly Vascular Conference.
The student will be expected to be well-groomed, cleanly dressed, conforming to the Department resident dress code, and to conduct himself/herself in a courteous and professional manner .
Method of Evaluation:
Will be graded by staff.
Course name and number: General Surgery (LSU-MCLNO) SURG 428a.
Faculty:
Dr. J. Patrick O'Leary
Dr. Edward Helm
Dr. Daniel Frey
Dr. Yi-Zarn Wang
Dr. J.P. Boudreaux
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability: All blocks
Number of students: 2
Objectives:
A four-week course offering clinical instruction in general vascular and non-cardiac thoracic surgery. Instruction and guidance in minor procedures, as well as surgical endoscopy are also available.
Means of Implementation:
The student will be expected to perform complete history and physicals on each patient, and assist in surgery and pre and post-operative care. Daily teaching rounds will be conducted and the student will be given reading assignments. Two afternoons a week are set aside for student enrichment.
Enrichment time is elective time which may be spent in the library, lecture or any academic setting including the operating room. Informal conferences will be conducted and the student will be expected to attend weekly GI and General Surgery Conferences.
The student will be expected to be well-groomed, cleanly dressed, conforming to the Department resident dress code, and to conduct himself/herself in a courteous and professional manner .
Method of Evaluation:
Will be evaluated by staff and residents.
Course name and number: Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery Externship (LSU-MCLNO) SURG 430a.
Faculty:
Dr. Herman Heck
Dr. Nick Moustoukas
Dr. Jared Gilmore
Dr. Michael Weaver
Dr. Eugene Kukuy
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability: All blocks and summer
Number of students: 1
Objectives:
A four-week elective in which a student will develop significant familiarity with the pathophysiology of cardiac and thoracic problems.
Means of Implementation:
The student will work with the thoracic surgical faculty and house staff at University Hospital. Participation in rounds and conferences at all hospitals will be supplemented by independent and assigned readings.
The student will be expected to be well-groomed, cleanly dressed, conforming to the Department resident dress code, and to conduct himself/herself in a courteous and professional manner .
Method of Evaluation:
Will be evaluated by staff and residents.
Course name and number: Surgery Critical Care (LSU-MCLNO) SURG 435a.
Faculty:
Dr. John Hunt
Dr. Alan Marr
Dr. Glen Steeb
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability: All blocks
Number of students: 2
Objectives:
An elective rotation through the surgical intensive care unit will provide the student with an appreciation for the physiology and techniques needed to deliver the intensive care necessary to turn a technically successful surgical exercise into a recoverable surgical patient.
Means of Implementation:
The surgical intensive care unit is now set up in such a way that it provides continuous 24 hour-a-day, 7 day-a-week resident and staff coverage and supervision. A student elective in this atmosphere should provide very close contact and one-to-one teaching from both the resident and student standpoint.
Knowledge that can be obtained with this rotation include care of the general post-operative surgical patient, an appreciation of the physiology of acute-critical situations, an appreciation of investigative techniques of monitoring, a review of the inter-operative and post-operative physiologic states that critically ill patients undergo, and an appreciation of the forms of therapy that are necessary to treat critically ill patients. This rotation would provide a rather constant resident-student and staff-student environment, and should, likewise, provide a continuing acquisition of knowledge on an hour-to-hour basis that is so important for the function of an intensive care unit.
The student will be expected to be well-groomed, cleanly dressed, conforming to the Department resident dress code, and to conduct himself/herself in a courteous and professional manner .
Method of Evaluation:
Specific evaluation of each student will depend on a number of factors. Some of these factors include patient presentations, knowledge of patient's pathophysiologic state, one seminar topic presentation per rotation, degree of participation in general discussions, general and acquired knowledge, and general performance.
Course name and number: Clinical Pediatric Surgery (LSU-MCLNO, et al.)
SURG 437a.
Faculty:
Dr. Evans Valerie
Dr. Charles B. Hill
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability: All blocks
Number of students: 1
Objectives:
To expose interested students to the spectrum of clinical pediatric surgical problems. To provide an opportunity to integrate basic surgical and pediatric knowledge in the clinical setting and to further develop patient management skills.
Means of Implementation:
4 week rotations in Clinical Pediatric Surgery will be offered at Children's Hospital. The student will participate in the pre-operative, operative and post-operative management of infants and children who demonstrate a wide variety of surgical disease. These patients will be seen in the outpatient clinics and on the wards of the above hospitals. Responsibilities will include patient history and physical examinations, supervised order writing, operating room assistance, case presentations, selected readings and conference discussions.
The student will be expected to be well-groomed, cleanly dressed, conforming to the Department resident dress code, and to conduct himself/herself in a courteous and professional manner .
Method of Evaluation:
Will be evaluated by staff and residents.
Course name and number: Plastic Surgery (LSU-MCLNO, et al.) SURG 438a.
Faculty:
Dr. M. Whitten Wise
Dr. Charles Dupin
Duration: 4 weeks
Availability: All blocks
Number of students: q
Objectives:
A four-week course at LSU Affiliated Hospitals offering an introduction to plastic surgery.
Means of Implementation:
The student will spend time at University Hospital, Memorial Medical Center, West Jefferson, and various other sites in the New Orleans area. The student will be an active participant in the pre-operative and operative management of surgical problems representing the various phases of plastic surgery including head and neck tumors, hand surgery, maxillofacial surgery, cosmetic surgery, congenital surgery, and general reconstructive surgery, and the various aspects of microsurgery.
The student will be expected to read from assigned references and attend all plastic surgery clinics and conferences.
The student will be expected to be well-groomed, cleanly dressed, conforming to the Department resident dress code, and to conduct himself/herself in a courteous and professional manner .
Method of Evaluation:
Will be evaluated by staff and plastic surgery residents.