Acting Internship in Solid Organ Transplant Surgery

Catalog Description: This course provides exposure to deceased and live donor kidney, liver and pancreas transplantation. The student will participate in the pre-operative evaluation and management and post operative care (including immune monitoring), while stressing the intra-operative management (donor and recipient) of transplant patients and back-table work. The student will participate on clinical rounds; attend teaching conferences, seminars and complete an abstract in an area of interest. The student will scrub into organ donor operations as well as kidney, liver and pancreas transplants.

Syllabus

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Required session attendance: Does not apply

Typical weekly schedule/Delivery Mode: Dependent on # of organ procurements and transplant case volumes for the given week.  Mix of clinic & OR opportunities, M-F, 7:30am-5:00pm, no formal (pager based in-house patient care) night call in the traditional sense; Students are expected to organize potential night or weekend activities (morning work rounds and operations) around transplant/procurement surgeries, no more than 1-2 times per week on average.  One weekend day is totally OFF.

Direct patient care: Yes

Consent Requirement: Open for students to self schedule.

Grading Scale: H/E/S/N

Allow repetition of course: Repetition not allowed

Course equivalency: Does not apply