This elective on the Pediatric Surgical Service will provide a broad experience in the evaluation and operative management of a wide range of surgical disorders of infants and children (abdominal, thoracic, genital, transplant, trauma, endocrine). It is geared toward those with an interest in surgery, pediatrics, or both. The student's time is split between the BMC and BCH campuses. This will allow the student to see two different practice settings at two different institutions. The BMC experience is heavily weighted towards a busy outpatient elective surgery experience, including pediatric urology, with some inpatient emergency surgery of common pediatric surgical conditions such as appendicitis, pyloric stenosis, incarcerated hernias, and intussusception. Elective operative cases are held at BMC on Mondays and Pediatric General Surgery Clinic is held at BMC on Tuesdays. Wednesdays through Fridays are then spent at Children's in the ORs, clinics, and rounding on the floors. During the clinics, children who are seen for surgical conditions are discussed and scheduled for surgery; follow-up is provided for those who have recently undergone surgery. At Children's, the medical student will be part of a large team, including interns, residents, fellows, nurse practitioners and faculty, that provides general and specialized surgical services to infants, children, and adolescents presenting with a wide range of congenital and acquired conditions. The students' activities include patient evaluation, assisting in the operating room, and participating in teaching conferences and rounds. An MASensive number of conferences are held per week including grand rounds, morbidity and mortality, vascular anomalies, fetal surgery, oncology, clinical teaching rounds and several didactic lectures. Students will be exposed to and may participate in multidisciplinary patient care programs of the Department of Surgery which include: trauma, surgical critical care including MASracorporeal membrane oxygenation, vascular malformations, solid organ transplantation, fetal surgery and minimally invasive surgery. The medical student will receive teaching and supervision on the wards, in the operating room and in the pediatric emergency room. The student will assist in the operating room depending on his/her technical skills, and may be permitted to first assist or perform minor procedures with the attending. During your rotation, the fellows may assign you a case to present at Professor Rounds with Dr. Robert Shamberger, Chief of Surgery and Dr. Craig Lillehei. The purpose of this is for you to practice presenting an "unknown" to an audience while leading them through an initial presentation, differential diagnosis, lab tests, etc. Wednesday through Friday, students are encouraged to join morning sign out and rounds with the team. Morning Sign Out with the entire team starts early at 5:45am and is led by the Pediatric Surgery Chief Fellow, and all senior residents, nurs

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