M4 Surgery & Surgical Subspecialties

• MED MD 576: Orthopedics - Kaiser
  Students will learn the basic exams and history components of musculoskeletal care, fracture care and other Orthopedic injuries pertaining to bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles and nerves which allow you to move, and be active. Students will also perform physical exams and observe operation room cases. Medical students will work with orthopedic surgery attendings one on one at the clinic and hospital. They will see patients independently as well as in tandem with the attending, obtain a focused history and physical, report to the attending with his/her findings and develop a basic plan on how to diagnose and treat the patient. This elective will have both inpatient and outpatient experiences. Students will obtain experience with Sports Medicine, Total Joint Replacement, General Orthopedics, Hand Specialty, Ready access to Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy, Pediatric Specialty, Fracture Clinic, Fastrac Surgery, and Orthopedic Education. Students will be given enough of an experience where they can decide if Orthopedics is a career that they may pursue.
• MED MD 580: Urology
  Full-time clerkship of one month's duration offered by the Urology Department for two students during each month. Students will be assigned to Boston Medical Center. Students will participate in all aspects of general urology, functioning as integral members with the urology resident staff. They will be assigned to perform primary urologic consultations on patients from other services; in addition they will participate in the evaluation and management of urology service patients. Students will have the opportunity to prepare for the operating room and participate/observe surgical cases. Students of exceptional excellence may be assigned to striker positions during their elective. They will become proficient in the evaluation of a variety of urologic problems, including urologic neoplasms, neurogenic bladder, reconstructive urologic surgery, urinary calculus disease, obstructive uropathy and sexual and transgender medicine. Students will be direct participants in all department conferences and will be expected to contribute to the didactic teaching program of the department.
• MED MD 650: Advanced Acute Care and Trauma Surgery
  The Advanced Trauma and Acute Care surgery elective at Boston Medical Center is a clinical program with a strong focus on management of acute general surgical disease and the multimodal and multidisciplinary management of traumatic injury. The elective is four weeks in duration and is designed to further develop the complex peri-, intra-, and post-operative decision making and basic open and laparoscopic surgical skills of the medical student who might be interested in a future career in trauma surgery. This is an Advanced Course that can only be taken following completion of the Acute Care and Trauma Surgery Sub-internship. The BU medical student will be able to expand their responsibilities under direct supervision and develop their own learning objectives to focus their interests throughout the rotation.