- July 8, 2020
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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:
Week 1 | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
AM | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg |
PM | Surg | Surg | FM Clinic | FM Didactics | Surg | Surg |
Week 2 | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
AM | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg |
PM | Surg | Surg | FM Clinic | FM Didactics | Surg |
Week 3 | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
AM | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg |
PM | Surg | Surg | FM Clinic | FM Didactics | Surg | Surg |
Week 4 | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
AM | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg | Surg |
PM | Surg | Surg | FM Clinic | FM Didactics | Surg | Surg |
- Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy
- UpToDate