SURGERY

For Students Surgery Clerkship Requirements (3rd Year)
•	Surgery Syllabus
•	Required Booklist
•	Evaluation Forms; Clinical encounter log, procedure logs
Surgery Rotation Sites & Faculty
•	Meet the Surgery Faculty
•	Surgery Site-Specific Instructions
Surgery Fellowship and Career Information
•	Surgery Fellowships and Careers
•	Surgery Web Links and Resources
For Faculty
•	Faculty Development and CME Program
•	Useful Faculty Development Links (go to Quick Links)
•	Clinical Faculty Application
•	Preceptor Evaluation of Students

 

 

 

 

 

 

Required Booklist

3rd Year Rotations

Required Textbooks:

• Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, Townsend, Beauchamp, Evers, Mattox; 18th edition.
  (Available in electronic format on the VCOM Library)
  
• Somatic Dysfunction in Osteopathic Family Medicine, Kenneth E. Nelson; Chapter 10 – The Surgical Patient

The specific reading assignments in these textbooks have been designed to correspond to the core clinical topics for the rotation and can be found in the syllabus under the “Clinical Modules – Required Curriculum.”

Recommended:

• Cope’s Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen, 21st edition, by William Silen.

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