The Surgery Selective Clerkship is a clinical clerkship designed to provide students with a focused and specialized experience in the field of surgery. The selective clerkship allows students to explore specific surgical specialties, advanced procedural skills, and subspecialty areas including, but not limited to orthopedics, gynecologic oncology, neurosurgery, colorectal, ENT, ophthalmology, and plastic surgery.
It is critical to note that the clinical clerkship experience is not intended to teach the student everything about Surgery nor provide the student with clinical experience in every aspect of the discipline. The Clerkship Director and the assigned Preceptor may provide educational guidance, but it is each student’s individual responsibility to learn the subject content. Lifelong self-learning is the goal and is expected in this clinical clerkship. Students must show that adequate direct patient care experience has been achieved by demonstrating adequate patient log support of an average of at least 4 outpatients or 2 inpatients per day.
Successful completion of all pre-clinical (Year 1 and Year 2) coursework, and post initial attempt on COMLEX Level 1, with passing score reported to clinical education.