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In the next twelve weeks you will participate in the care of patients on the Surgery Services. The contents of this course have been formulated so that they can help you in forthcoming residency and in the practice of medicine in general, it is not meant to make you a surgeon. During this clerkship, you will study diseases which may at times be treated by an operation. You will gain first hand experience in establishing the diagnosis and treatment of surgical problems. Surgical technique and design of the operations are taught, not as an end in themselves, but as they pertain to the pathophysiology of the clinical problem and its acute and chronic postoperative complications.