Department of Surgical Sciences Chair Kevin T. Jules, DPM Associate Professor The Department of Surgical Sciences is responsible for teaching didactic knowledge of a surgical nature. Department members also provide surgical care for the patients of the Foot Clinics of New York, affiliated hospitals, and hold the responsibility for clinical surgical education of the students, residents and post-doctoral fellows who rotate through the Department. In addition, faculty members of the Department participate in college-sponsored Continuing Medical Education Seminars and conduct research of a surgical nature. The mission of the Department is to produce an entry level Doctor of Podiatric Medicine, who has attained a firm understanding of the surgical procedures utilized to treat deformities and afflictions of the foot and ankle. This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic principles of surgery, as well as a system's review of pathologic conditions, which may require general surgery.
Special attention is focused on wound healing, electrolyte balance, shock and infections.
This rotation is a five-week clerkship during which the student is afforded the opportunity to evaluate, diagnose the treat myriad lower extremity pathologies in children. The student will also frequently encounter the normal lower extremity in various stages of development and will develop skill in differentiating the normal from the abnormal. Finally, the student will also learn to evaluate the well-health status of a child and make referrals for general medical problems where appropriate. The anesthesiology course is designed to introduce the student to the principles, indications and techniques of general and local anesthesia. General anesthesia focuses on the pharmacology of general anesthetics and drug interactions as well as techniques of incubation, ventilation and fluid replacement.