Oncology
Activity
Large Group Session
Large Group Session
Assessment of a patient with pulmonary nodule. Lung Cancer Screening. Lung Cancer Staging. Operative Treatment of Lung Cancer. Take home messages for the multiple disciplines of medicine.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Surgery Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Describe the causes of hepatomegaly.
- Discuss the most frequently encountered malignant hepatic tumors and their management.
- Describe the differential diagnosis of a pancreatic mass.
- Create an algorithm for the evaluation of a patient with a lung nodule on chest x-ray.
- Discuss the common risk factors and clinical symptoms of lung cancer.
- List the most common sources of malignant metastases to the lungs.
- Compare and contrast the management and prognosis of metastatic vs. primary lung malignancies.
- Describe the most common diagnostic procedures used to evaluate pulmonary and mediastinal lesions.
- List the common tumors of the anterior, posterior and superior mediastinum.
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Surgery Rotation
Discipline
Surgery
MCC Presentations
Blood in Sputum (Hemoptysis)
Chest Pain
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Lung Neoplasms [C04.588.894.797.520]
