Pediatric Surgery - Mornings are usually spent in surgery, afternoons the office. Dr. Roback and staff. Limit two students per rotation. Students have the opportunity to participate in the care of patients selected from a private surgical practice. Patients are assigned to maximize exposure to a wide variety of both acute and elective surgical problems.
Students have the opportunity to do work-ups, histories, and physicals.
They may assist in surgery on the less complicated cases and write orders and postoperative reports. Students participate in teaching rounds on Wednesday and Friday mornings for one hour each. When time is available, students participate in teaching conferences such as tumor, surgery, pathology, etc. Limit three students per rotation. Student rotations will be split between the General Surgery and Trauma Services.