Administration Basic Sciences Clinical Sciences Centers of Excellence
 

Course Requirements

 

 

Case Logs

Students are required to keep daily logs of operative cases. While students choose which cases they view each day, these logs are periodically reviewed to ensure that each student's surgical experience is of adequate breadth. In addition to cases, students should log any other activities they participate in (e.g., clinics, procedures, radiologic studies, pathology review).

All Core Clinical Situations and Skilled Competencies will be logged under the Px/Dx menu on www.e-value.net

If procedures are not available in the Px/Dx options, they should be emailed to abutl2@lsuhsc.edu

 

Didactics Sessions

These sessions take priority over any other activity

New Orleans

 1.    Didactic Student Lectures Tuesday 7 – 8 AM List of particular general and subspecialty surgical topics to be discussed in this highly interactive hour-long session:      

1. Trauma/Critical Care
2 .Colon, benign and malignant – Diverticulitis, Inflammatory bowel disease, polyps and cancer
3. Breast masses – Benign and cancer
4. Vascular Disease
5. Surgical Liver Disease
6. Surgical endocrine disease
7. Surgical esophageal/gastric disease and GI bleeding
8. Transplant
9. Nutrition
10. Cardiothoracic Surgery
11. End of Life Care/Ethics
12. Bilary Tract Disease
 

 Date
 Topic
Lecturer

Sept 29

 Surgical Endocrine Disease  Dr. Fahr
Oct 6 Transplant Dr. Boudreaux
Oct 13 Surgical Endocrine Disease Dr. Steeb
Oct 20 Colon, Benign, and Cancer Dr. Opleka
Oct 27            TBA  
Nov 3 Vascular Surgery Dr. Sheahan/Bazan 
Nov 10 Trauma/Critical Care Dr. Hunt
Nov 17 Cardiothoracic Surgery Dr. Heck
Nov 24 Nutrition Dr. Marr
Dec 1

Surgical Esophageal /Gastric Disease

GI Bleeding

 Dr. Edwards

Dec 8

 Breast Masses  Dr. Wey
Dec 15 Ethics of Life Care/Ethics Dr. Baker 
     
     
     
     


Italicized lectures are not confirmed

 

 

Thursday 7AM: Resident Conferences

Consult with residents regarding location and exact times in various cities.

 

New Orleans
1542 Tulane; Louge Area

 
Baton Rouge
loc A: OLOL Room 2003B
loc B: EKL Women's Clinic
loc C: EKL Administration Classroom
loc D: EKL Classroom AB
Lafayette
Hall 2, Conf Rm 1
7:00am M&M 
(Quality Assurance/Root Cause Analysis)
 
7:00am Grand Rounds
8:00am Grand Rounds
2:00pm Student Conference (C)
8:00am M&M 
(Quality Assurance/Root Cause Analysis)
9:30am Basic Science
3:00pm M&M
(Quality Assurance/Root Cause Analysis)
(A: 2nd Thursday of the Month; 
D: Every other Thursday)
9:00am Basic Science
10:30 Professor Rounds
4:00pm Basic Science 
(A: 2nd Thursday of the Month; 
D: Every other Thursday)
10:00am Pre-Op Conf

 

 

   Cohn’s Conference ( New Orleans )Fridays 3 – 4 pm.
In this interactive peer session, discussion among the medical students is facilitated by a different faculty member each week. Each student presents one case in this Conference during the rotation and  3 – 4 cases are presented and discussed per week. Student presenting is encouraged to curtail the talk to his/her peers’ level and discussion is centered on the clinical presentation, generation of the differential diagnosis, management, and outcomes is facilitated by a member of the faculty. Students are encouraged to add a brief didactic session after each case to facilitate discussion and learning among peers. 

 Baton Rouge:

      Student Conference Thursday 2-3 PM

 Lafayette

 Didactic Student Lectures (Same Lectures as New Orleans)

Tuesday 7 – 8 AM List of particular general and subspecialty surgical topics to be discussed in this highly interactive hour-long session:                                              

  

Tutorial Groups

Students on rotations in the New Orleans area will meet with faculty mentors in a small group setting.  During these weekly meetings, groups will discuss any number of topics including, but not limited to: Acid-base balance, shock, fluids & electrolytes, wound healing, acute abdomen, nutrition, sepsis, vascular surgery, abdominal trauma, vascular trauma, head & neck trauma, endocrine, ethics, and professionalism.  

Conference Presentations

In addition to Teaching Resident Case Presentation, students are encouraged to present at the team conferences. Most often, this is a patient presentation, but occasionally students are asked to add a short didactic afterwards. The conference presentation schedule is determined at the beginning of the rotation by the chief resident.  

 

Ethics Papers

The ethics project is described below. Students should begin looking for an ethical issue to base their project on from the start of their clerkships, and begin to organize their thoughts about it as soon as possible. The ethical issue chosen should reflect the student's own experience, and not be hypothetical. Students are required to lead a 10-minute discussion about the issue, and provide a brief (half-page) write-up.

 

As per Dr. Frey: 
In an attempt to continue the foundation that was established in the pre-clinical ethics course, the general surgery rotation has incorporated a one-hour lecture on ethics as it applies to surgical issues.  As a requirement to complete this aspect of the surgery rotation, each student is expected to submit in writing on the Monday before the lecture a case presentation that deals with an ethical dilemma that the student participated in, how the dilemma was resolved and how it should have been resolved using the Bernard Lo text as your reference (Resolving Ethical Dilemmas- A guide for the Clinicians).  This paper will be worth 5% of your final grade.  For lecture I will choose as many as time allows for discussion during the lecture hour, therefore each student must be prepared to discuss the specifics of the case.  The submission should be one page in length or less, once again similar to the Lo textbook and the case log book you received during the pre-clinical course.      
For questions, contact me at Daniel J Frey:
337-261-6158 
Dfrey@lsuhsc.edu

 

 

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