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Clinical Transaction Project
Surgical Clerkship

The Clinical Transaction Project is designed to enhance the existing curriculum and emphasize your skills in interacting with patients. This will revolve around a set of "presenting problems," developed by faculty leaders, over which all Vanderbilt graduates should have a basic mastery. The Department of Surgery has been assigned: abdominal pain, breast complaints, shock, and trauma. Because your general surgery experience is based with a given clinical service, you may not personally encounter all these types of patients, so we have instituted "field days." Each student will go to an "off-service" experience weekly. The students on a given team will work on the same problem in a given week, and will meet weekly with a Master Clinical Teacher to review the experience: VA with Dr Tarpley at___; CRS/HB/OE with Dr. Lomis Fridays at 2pm (419LH); GI-lap/EGS with Dr. Lomis Fridays at 3pm (419LH).

Four topics (while on General Surgery):

  1. Breast - Vanderbilt Breast Clinic
  2. Abdominal pain
    a. Assessment of abdominal pain - night call on EGS service or with primary service if see new pt
    b. Acute pain management – morning in PACU with Dr Michael Richardson, anesthesiology; day varies, Dr. Richardson will email groups directly with dates and times.
  3. Trauma – night call with PGY2; contact resident on trauma schedule that evening
  4. Shock – critical skills week (week 6 of rotation)

Friday debriefing

  • VA with Dr. Tarpley as per his scheduling
  • Vandy with Dr Lomis: CRS/OE at 2pm; GI-lap/EGS/HB at 3pm; LH439
  • Pain management groups do not meet with Dr Lomis
  • Weeks when both groups have same topic, we will all meet together at 2pm
WEEK VA / peds CRS / OE GI-lap / EGS / HB
2
Breast Abdominal Pain (KDL* OOT) Pain Management
3
 Pain Management Breast Trauma
4
Trauma Pain Management Abdominal Pain (KDL* OOT)
5
 Abdominal Pain Trauma Breast
7
 Pain Management Trauma Abdominal Pain
8
 Abdominal Pain Abdominal Pain Breast
9
 Breast Pain Management Trauma
10
 Trauma Breast Pain Management

*KDL will meet with both groups GI-lap / EGS / HB and CRS / OE in week 5 for abd pain in addition to other topics

Students in a given group are to decide among themselves which day/night each will take; weekends should be allocated as fairly as possible. Note that you will need to use weekends or double-up for all to complete experience before debrief sessions.



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