This course provides opportunities for learning in subspecialty surgery and subspecialty medicine.
The surgery component is formed by a 2-week rotation on one of the following services with students participating in outpatient, inpatient, surgical and ambulatory experiences:
Plastic surgery: principally ambulatory exposure to skin lesions and tumors, facial injuries, burns, hand injuries
Otolaryngology: principally ambulatory exposure to ear, nose and throat lesions, tumors, inflammatory lesions
Vascular surgery: aortic, iliac and femoral vessel stenosis, distal ischemic lesions, prevention methods
Neurosurgery: spinal stenosis, brain and spinal cord tumors and lesions, spinal cord and head injuries
The medicine component is formed by 2 two-week rotations. Each rotation is on one of the following services:
Allergy/Endocrinology, Cardiology Wards, Dermatology, Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology, Neurology, Oncology Clinics, Palliative Care, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Respirology, Rheumatology.
During this rotation, the clinical clerk is expected to function as an integral member of a multi-disciplinary team and become active in the assessment and management of patients in a variety of settings, including in-patient care, consultations, emergency room assessments and out-patient clinics depending on the rotation. The clinical clerk is also expected to participate in an on-call roster and on patient management rounds as appropriate.