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Lectures, Textbooks & Study Program

Lectures

Many of our lectures have been video recorded and are available via Vista.

On most afternoons during your eight week rotation there will be a lecture given in the Surgery Amphitheater at 4:00 pm. Some are only given live. The lecture schedule will be on the website, but please recognize that because of clinical conflicts lectures will sometimes have to be cancelled at the last minute. We will try to make you aware of cancellations as soon as possible. Check with Grace Piaia (706) 721-4143 regarding changes in schedule and cancellations. Lecture attendance is mandatory. Attendance will be documented by sign-in sheets. Lectures take priority over other activities except in special circumstances.  One (1) "Professionalism" point in the final grade will be given for documented attendance at 80% of the lectures. (Note that this allows a student to decide to miss a lecture when he/she is post call.) Off campus students are responsible for watching the taped lectures. They are given credit for attending the live lectures they miss. Handouts will be given for some of those lectures which are not yet taped.

Students will also participate in the lectures and teaching sessions that occur on the Specialty and Core Service to which they are assigned.

SURGICAL SKILLS TRAINING

At the beginning of each rotation, students will participate in a small group suturing and knot tying workshop under the auspices of the Virtual Education & Surgical Simulation Laboratory (VESSL). This experience will provide one-on-one instruction and hands-on experience in open knot tying and suturing skills. Opportunity to practice two-handed and instrument knot tying, simple interrupted and running sutures, vertical and horizontal mattress sutures, and subcuticular closures will be afforded using a porcine- model.

Textbooks

A handout discussing text books will be distributed at orientation. If you wish to see this information prior to orientation, email Grace Piaia at gpiaia@mcg.edu. A $25.00 gift certificate to help pay for any one of a list of approved texts will be given to you at orientation

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June 25, 2007