Students can learn much simply by seeing patients all day long; however, you will need to access a variety of additional learning resources to cover all of the objectives in this clerkship.
Tip: check out the Objectives document and the exam blueprints to make sure you have covered everything you need.
NEW: Check out this great gastrointestinal X-ray collection on Medscape
Tip: There are some excellent online resources at the bottom of each page in the sections on Diseases in Surgery and Skills below:
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| General Surgery Textbooks
including reviews and links to inline copies
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Including links to online copies
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PowerPoints, etc. from your mandatory seminars and skills sessions |
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From the Health Sciences Library
A page on Surgery.
Under the tab ‘Find Articles and Answers’, you can get to to a number of superb online resources
including Access Surgery
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From the Association of Surgical Education
PowerPoint cases on common presentations in General Surgery
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Practice Exams
Practice multiple choice exams:
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Helping you make the right decision
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Handouts, downloads and links from your partners on the health care team |
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Great tools for the clinical environment |
| Student Guide to Rounds, Orders, and Drugs
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Other suggestions
- surgery videos on YouTube (search for your topic)
- surgery start page on Wikipedia
- The Art of Pimping
- http://www.nejm.org/multimedia/medical-videos