The senior surgical clerk will be assigned specific patients for work-up and will participate in the management of each of these patients until their discharge. She will also participate in the care of other patients on the service. There shall be experiences with the patients in the emergency room as well as an exposure to the outpatient management of surgical patients. These clerkships are intended for a more in depth exposure to the field and will involve considerably more patient contact, surgical exposure and detailed education in the field. A four-week clerkship may substitute for the one week obligatory clerkship in that specialty if the student so desires.
All clerkships are for four week unless special arrangements are made ahead of time.