Anorectal disease
Activity
e-Learning Module
e-Learning Module
This module reviews the presentation, diagnosis and management of anorectal disease, and specifically of perianal abcesses.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Surgery Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Develop a differential diagnosis for a patient with perianal pain. (Be sure to include benign, malignant and inflammatory causes.)
- Discuss the characteristic history findings for each of the above (perianal pain) including: character and duration of complaint, presence or absence of associated bleeding, relationship of complaint to defecation.
- Describe physical exam findings for each diagnosis of perianal pain. Indicate in which part of exam (external, digital, anoscopic or proctoscopic) these findings are identified.
- Discuss treatment plan for each diagnosis listed in objective one (for perianal pain), including non-operative interventions and role and timing of surgical interventions.
Assessments
e-Learning Module Completion
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Surgery Rotation
Discipline
Surgery
MCC Presentations
Anorectal Pain
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Anus Diseases [C06.405.469.860.101]
Rectal Diseases [C06.405.469.860]
