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Eligible: Enrichment Only
Maximum Enrollment: 4 Months
Offered: August - April
Course Description: This course is designed to educate and expose students to the general medical principles and management of critically ill surgical patients in the Intensive Care Unit environment. Students will participate in daily rounds with the critical care team following one to two patients per day. In addition students will participate in procedural interventions.
GMED 5034
Category: Critical Care
Classification: Selective
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
Course Description: This elective is designed to provide an intensive experience in critical care medicine. Emphasis is placed upon clinical evaluation and management of critically ill patients: mechanical ventilatory support, hemodynamic and ventilatory monitoring and other critical care interventions. Didactic sessions, conferences and teaching rounds provide a broad view of clinical approaches to critically ill patients.
Category: Critical Care
Classification: Selective
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator, Regional Campus Coordinator
Eligible: Enrichment Only
Months Offered: all
Course Description: This rotation is designed to teach students to assist in the care of critically ill children and develop a multiple organ systems approach for evaluation and treatment. Activities include evaluation of newly admitted patients to the pediatric intensive care unit, development of multiple organ systems-based evaluation and management plans on all patients, provision of daily organ systems-based written documentation on the progress of all their patients, and making oral presentations on rounds to the attending and other team members. Students will be required to work 2 weekend days.
Category: Critical Care
Classification: Selective
Contact: Clerkship Coordinator- Tanya Simpson- TANSIMPSON@AUGUSTA.EDU
Eligible: Enrichment, priority for students declaring Surgery as a sponsoring department
Months Offered: all
Course Description: In this course, students will be involved in the care of patients on the Surgery Trauma Intensive Care Unit . These patients frequently have injuries and functional disruption of multiple organ systems and therefore offer opportunity for learning complex trauma and critical care management. Neurological, cardiovascular, pulmonary and renal physiology are stressed and the frequent ultrasound, intracranial pressure monitoring and mechanical ventilator support provide extensive experience in the care of the critically ill. Students will be an active member of the Trauma Team.
Send ALL surgery course inquires/requests/forms to the Clerkship Coordinator and, Regional Coordinator, if applicable. Add/Drop Forms should not be sent to specialty departments.
