Surgery Clerkship
Assessment
Essential Clinical Experience Completion
Essential Clinical Experience Completion
The purpose of the Essential Clinical Experience is to ensure that all students cover high-priority areas longitudinally throughout clerkship.
Curriculum Block
Surgery Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Essential Clinical Experience
- Venipuncture
- Pre-operative Surgical Safety checklist
- Rectal Exam
- Participate in a discussion that involves issues pertaining to patient safety.
- Participate in the development of a discharge plan for a hospitalized patient.
- Apply evidence-based information to inform decision making and share with patient or family.
- Access evidence-based information/resources relevant to a clinical problem and discuss with supervisor or team.
- Participate in a discussion, or prepare a written analysis, in regards to an ethical dilemma.
- Participate in a discussion regarding decisional capacity.
- Obtain informed consent for a procedure or treatment.
- Participate in a discussion in which aspects or limits of confidentiality are explored.
- Collaborate with the interprofessional team around the care of a patient.
- Communicate information about diagnosis, prognosis or therapy using lay language.
- Communicate with a patient or family when there is a language or cultural barrier (not necessarily using an interpreter).
- Participate in a discussion in which "bad news" is communicated to a patient or family.
- Wound cleansing / dressing
- Abdominal pain, acute (< 48 hrs)
- Urinary catheter, Insert
- Suture removal
- IV start, Peripheral
- OR sterile technique/Assisting
- Nasogastric tube, Insert
- Closure of wound (skin)
- Bowel obstruction
- Inguinal/scrotal complaints
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Fluid management in the surgical patient
- Fever in postoperative patient
- Vomitting, Diarrhea & Constipation
- Urinary complaints
- Dyspnea/chest pain in postoperative patient
- Breast mass/inflammation/discharge
Activities
Essential Clinical Experience
- Abdominal pain, acute (< 48 hrs)
- Breast mass/inflammation/discharge
- Dyspnea/chest pain in postoperative patient
- Urinary complaints
- Vomitting, Diarrhea & Constipation
- Fever in postoperative patient
- Fluid management in the surgical patient
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Inguinal/scrotal complaints
- Bowel obstruction
- Closure of wound (skin)
- Nasogastric tube, Insert
- OR sterile technique/Assisting
- IV start, Peripheral
- Suture removal
- Urinary catheter, Insert
- Venipuncture
- Wound cleansing / dressing
- Participate in a discussion in which "bad news" is communicated to a patient or family.
- Communicate with a patient or family when there is a language or cultural barrier (not necessarily using an interpreter).
- Communicate information about diagnosis, prognosis or therapy using lay language.
- Collaborate with the interprofessional team around the care of a patient.
- Participate in a discussion in which aspects or limits of confidentiality are explored.
- Obtain informed consent for a procedure or treatment.
- Participate in a discussion regarding decisional capacity.
- Participate in a discussion, or prepare a written analysis, in regards to an ethical dilemma.
- Access evidence-based information/resources relevant to a clinical problem and discuss with supervisor or team.
- Apply evidence-based information to inform decision making and share with patient or family.
- Participate in the development of a discharge plan for a hospitalized patient.
- Participate in a discussion that involves issues pertaining to patient safety.
- Rectal Exam
- Pre-operative Surgical Safety checklist
- Primary Presentation
Tags
Curriculum Block
Surgery Rotation
Discipline
Surgery
McMaster Program Competencies
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare