PGY-1 – General Surgery

Rotation Contacts: 
Andrew Aldridge MD,
Flagstaff Surgical Associates:
aldridgeaj1@flagstaffsurgical.com
#:928-380-3818 

Description of Rotation and Educational Experience: 

• This curricular component isdesigned to build clinical and procedural skills with surgical complaints. 
• The experience will include inpatient, outpatient and ambulatory surgical center experiences. 
• The resident will complete 1 half day per week in the family medicine clinic.  

Teaching Methods: 

• Learners will be oriented to the goals/objectives, schedule, and expectations during their orientation block and at the beginning ofthe rotation. 
• During thisblocklearners will attend regular Family Medicine didactic sessions and will present a topic assigned to them. 

Curriculum Goals: 

• To provide NCHC Family Medicine residents and other learners (medical students) with the ability to identify and manage a surgical patient. 
• Residents should achieve understanding and competency inobjectives below. 

General Surgery Objectives:

• Practice-Based Learning and Improvement:
• Learns and improves via performance evaluation 
• Learns and improves at the point of care 
• Learns and improves via feedback 
• Monitors practice with a goal for improvement 

• Patient Care and Procedural Skills:
• Care of the surgical patient in the inpatient environment: 
• Evaluation, management, and disposition in the emergency room 
• Evaluation and assistance in the surgical suite 
• Evaluation, management, and disposition status post surgical intervention 

• Care of the surgical patient in the outpatient environment: 
• Evaluation, management of the pre andpost surgicalpatient in the clinic 
• Procedural skills in various in-office surgical procedures 

• Care of the trauma patient: 
• Rotate through trauma call 

• Systems-Based Practice:
• Transitions patients effectively within and across health delivery system 
• Recognizes system error or inefficiency and advocates for system improvement 

• Medical Knowledge:
• Demonstrate growth toward mastery in clinical knowledge of above domains 

• Interpersonal and Communication Skills:
• Works and communicates effectively within an interprofessional team 
• Communicates effectively with patients and caregivers 

• Professionalism:
• Accepts responsibility and follows through on tasks 
• Appropriate utilization and completion of health records 
• Exhibits integrity and ethical behavior in professional conduct 

Evaluation and Feedback: 

• Learners will be given regular formative feedback by faculty during their rotation and are encouraged to have an explicit mid-rotation progress feedback session to help guide performance 
• Faculty will complete formal evaluation through new innovations at the end of the rotation 
• Learners will evaluate faculty and the rotation through the newinnovations platform 

Reading List: 

• Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy 
• UpToDate 

Sample Schedule: