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Surgery
SURG 340A. Critical Care Clerkship (SUMC) Open to Visitors
(Fulfills Subinternship Selective only for students begining clerkships 2001-02 or earlier). Teaches students how to manage critically ill surgical patients. The caseload is drawn from the ICU patients of the general and trauma surgery services at Stanford Hospital. The student works closely with the course director and senior surgery residents to provide care for a service that averages 10 patients in the Stanford E2 ICU. The student gains “hands-on” experience with the following procedures: arterial lines, central lines, pulmonary artery lines (Swan-Ganz catheters), and chest tubes, as well as other procedures appropriate to the student’s technical capabilities. Daily attending rounds help the student to master the following topics: mechanical ventilators, vasoactive drugs (pressors and inotropes), fluid resuscitation, shock, oxygen transport, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, ARDS, multiple organ failure, enteral and parenteral nutrition (TPN), and weaning from the ventilator. The student also participates in the resuscitation and operative management of trauma patients. Students wishing to do this clerkship must get approval from Theresa Kramer at 650-498-5624 first before registering.
Prereq: Surgery 300A or consent of instructor.
Periods Avail: 1-12, full-time for four or eight weeks, 1 student per period.
Reporting Instructions: Where: M114; Time: 7:00 am, Monday.
Units: 6 or 12 DropCode: Call Code: 4
Director: David Spain, M.D.
Other Faculty: David Spain, Susan Brundage, Drew Patterson, Mary-Anne Purtill, Paul Mohabir.
Coord: Patricia Raines (650-723-0173), H-3680.
Surgery
SURG 340B. Critical Care Clerkship (PAVAMC) Open to Visitors
This clerkship provides experience managing adult patients in a critical care unit. Students learn how to optimize care for the acutely ill patient and the multidisciplinary approach to complex patients. Teaching emphasizes the review of basic organ physiology, the ability to determine the pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in critical illness, and the formulation of a physiologic based treatment plan. Students gain experience with the implementation of monitoring and therapeutic devices used in the intensive care units and begin to become adept at the evaluation, stabilization and management of the most critically ill patients expected to be encountered in today's acute care hospitals. Ward rounds, bedside evaluation and treatment, and individual interactions with attending, fellows and residents are part of the educational process. Students must attend mandatory simulator courses in order to receive passing grade for this clerkship. Students wishing to do this clerkship must get approval from Theresa Kramer first before registering. Students must register for Anes 340B for this clerkship.
Prereq: Anesthesia 306A or Medicine and Surgery core clerkships.
Periods Avail: 1-12, full-time for four weeks. 1 student per period.
Reporting Instructions: Where: PAVAMC, MSICU, 3rd Floor; Time: 8:00 am.
Units: 6 DropCode: Call Code: 4
Director: Juliana Barr, M.D. (650-493-5000 x64452), Building 1, Room F315, PAVAMC (112A).
Other Faculty: E. Bertaccini, R. Chitkara, G. Lighthall, W. Kuschner, G. Krishna, J. Olsson.
Coord: Theresa Kramer (650-498-5624) H-3580, Stanford Hospital.
Medicine
MED 340B. Critical Care Clerkship (PAVAMC) Open to Visitors
This clerkship provides experience managing adult patients in a critical care unit. Students learn how to optimize care for the acutely ill patient and the multidisciplinary approach to complex patients. Teaching emphasizes the review of basic organ physiology, the ability to determine the pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in critical illness, and the formulation of a physiologic based treatment plan. Students gain experience with the implementation of monitoring and therapeutic devices used in the intensive care units and begin to become adept at the evaluation, stabilization and management of the most critically ill patients expected to be encountered in today's acute care hospitals. Ward rounds, bedside evaluation and treatment, and individual interactions with attending, fellows and residents are part of the educational process. Students must attend mandatory simulator courses in order to receive passing grade for this clerkship. Students wishing to do this clerkship must get approval from Theresa Kramer first before registering. Students must register for Anes 340B for this clerkship.
Prereq: Anesthesia 306A or Medicine and Surgery core clerkships.
Periods Avail: 1-12, full-time for four weeks. 1 student per period.
Reporting Instructions: Where: PAVAMC, MSICU, 3rd Floor; Time: 8:00 am.
Units: 6 DropCode: Call Code: 4 (weeknights only; no weekends)
Director: Juliana Barr, M.D. (650-493-5000 x64452), Building 1, Room F315, PAVAMC (112A).
Other Faculty: E. Bertaccini, R. Chitkara, G. Lighthall, W. Kuschner, G. Krishna, J. Olsson.
Coord: Theresa Kramer (650-498-5624) H-3580, Stanford Hospital.
Anesthesia
ANES 340B. Critical Care Clerkship (PAVAMC) Open to Visitors
This clerkship provides experience managing adult patients in a critical care unit. Students learn how to optimize care for the acutely ill patient and the multidisciplinary approach to complex patients. Teaching emphasizes the review of basic organ physiology, the ability to determine the pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in critical illness, and the formulation of a physiologic based treatment plan. Students gain experience with the implementation of monitoring and therapeutic devices used in the intensive care units and begin to become adept at the evaluation, stabilization and management of the most critically ill patients expected to be encountered in today's acute care hospitals. Ward rounds, bedside evaluation and treatment, and individual interactions with attending, fellows and residents are part of the educational process. Students must attend mandatory simulator courses in order to receive passing grade for this clerkship. Students wishing to do this clerkship must get approval from Theresa Kramer first before registering.
Prereq: Anesthesia 306A or Medicine and Surgery core clerkships.
Periods Avail: 1-12, full-time for four weeks. 1 student per period.
Reporting Instructions: Where: PAVAMC, MSICU, 3rd Floor; Time: 8:00 am.
Units: 6 DropCode: Call Code: 4 (weeknights only; no weekends)
Director: Juliana Barr, M.D. (650-493-5000 x64452), Building 1, Room F315, PAVAMC (112A).
Other Faculty: E. Bertaccini, R. Chitkara, G. Lighthall, W. Kuschner, G. Krishna, J. Olsson.
Coord: Theresa Kramer (650-498-5624) H-3580, Stanford Hospital.
* "S1"=Selective Clerkship Category I (Basics in Clinical Care)
"S2"=Selective Clerkship Category II (Subinternship)
