Practical year in the Department of Surgery
Teaching events
- Departmental meeting with presentation of emergency treatments and planned
operations, Monday to Friday 7:40 to 8:00 - Daily participation in ward rounds with allocation of patients who are cared for by the PJ students under supervision
- Daily participation in operations (2nd assistant) with introduction to and opportunity to practise basic surgical techniques (knots, skin sutures)
- Weekly surgical seminar discussing selected topics in surgical diseases
- Weekly teaching round (Fridays 8:30 to 9:15) with presentation of a patient by a PJ student, as in a patient presentation in the examination, followed by a case discussion
- Presentation of your own patients during the Chief Physician’s round (Wednesdays 8:00 to 8:30)
- Participation (active participation also welcome) in the monthly internal departmental training
- Participation in night shifts with time off in lieu
- Opportunity for internal rotation to the emergency department
- Weekly tumour board
- Weekly visceral medicine conference
Training on specialised medical equipment
- Ultrasound (sonography)
- Colour duplex ultrasound
- Video assistance during operations
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