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Education Page 40 these sessions, they learn to insert chest tubes, insert central venous catheters, manage Swan- Ganz catheters, manage ventilators and other important clinical skills. In addition, there are 4 two-hour sessions during which students are taught suturing techniques and receive hands-on experience suturing cadaver pigs’ feet. Collectively, these sessions broaden each student’s knowledge of surgical disease and procedures and also begin to develop their technical skills. Students and faculty have responded very positively to this initial week of concentrated teaching and learning. When they begin their clinical rotations in the 2nd week, the students are better prepared for their patient management and operating room experiences and are able to make a more valuable contribution to the surgical team. We have adopted the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Surgery exam as our clerkship final written examination. The use of this exam will help to maintain the integrity of our testing system and will provide data that shows how our results compare to those from other surgical education programs throughout the country. An online evaluation system has been established that enables students to provide timely, constructive feedback regarding their learning experience on the Surgery Clerkship as well as comments regarding faculty and resident teaching performance. An additional offering is the Clinical Skills Lab/Surgical Workshop series taught by Dr. Stevenson. These optional classes are offered to all medical students within the College of Medicine. The classes meet twice weekly and provide hands-on training to groups of approximately six students at a time. Subjects include: • Basic surgical instruments, knots and ties • Elementary wound closure and local anesthesia • Subcutaneous and fascial closures • Wound debridement, irrigation and drainage, securing tubes, Z plasties, VY plasties, rotation flaps • Skin grafts, dressings, splints • Grafts, nerve, vessel and tendon repair, hand examination Honors and Awards Richard J. Stevenson, M.D. Recipient of the “Golden Apple Award” (fifth consecutive year) which is given by the students of the College of Medicine to the faculty member they believe has most benefited their clinical education. Medical Student awards presented on Honors Day, May 28, 2006 Department of Surgery Award for the student with the highest overall grade in the clerkship - Benjamin Gibson. Cincinnati Surgical Society Award for the student with the highest grade that will be specializing in surgery - Benjamin Wilkins. Continuing Medical Education The Department of Surgery offers a number of conferences and symposiums for physicians who are seeking Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits, including weekly Surgical Grand Rounds, annual Mini Medical College classes, and various symposia throughout the year. The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine designates these educational activities for Category 1 CME credit toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Continuing Medical Education to sponsor CME for physicians. The Department of Surgery works closely with the Cincinnati Surgical Society, a community-wide society of surgeons, to provide continuing education of high quality. As part of the Department’s visiting professor program, invited experts often address the Cincinnati Surgical Society membership at their evening meeting. We welcome members of the community to participate in continuing medical education activities sponsored by the Department of Surgery. For more information regarding upcoming events, please refer to our website www.ucsurgeons.com. Additionally, if you wish to receive mailings which list the topics for our Wednesday morning Surgical Grand Rounds Conference, please contact Gilda Young at gilda.young@uc.edu. The UC Department of Surgery was honored to host the 79th Annual Meeting of the Halsted Society on September 7-10, 2005, in Cincinnati. The Halsted Society, a select group of senior surgeons, was formed in 1924 in honor of Dr. William Halsted, a renowned
surgeon at Johns Hopkins University who trained the first generation of American surgeons in the Halstedian surgical residency training method. One of his students, Dr. George Heuer, became the first Christian R. Holmes Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1922. Dr. Heuer brought Halsted’s method of surgical training as well as an entire group from Johns Hopkins (known as “the Hopkins invasion”) including future chairmen Mont Reid, B. Noland Carter and Max Zinninger. The local scientific program was held at the University of Cincinnati in the Surgical Amphitheater. An afternoon scientific session followed at the Queen City Club. Additional scientific sessions were held at the host hotel, The Cincinnatian. A varied social program showcased many of Cincinnati’s cultural institutions. Drs. Kenneth Davis and Karyn Butler, Division of Trauma/Critical Care, and the Department of Surgery hosted the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS) meeting, April 6-8, 2006. The meeting was attended by over 100 African-American surgeons from across the country. SBAS inspires and mentors young surgeons and medical students in the pursuit of academic careers. Each year the society partners with a leading department of surgery to hold a scientific meeting to share information about scientific and surgical advances. The Honorable Mark Mallory, Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, read a proclamation welcoming SBAS to Cincinnati during a reception at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, where the Society was welcomed by the Center’s President, Spencer Crew, PhD. At the black tie dinner and dance held at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Oscar Robertson, basketball icon and Cincinnati business entrepreneur, was the guest speaker. Dr. Walter Merrill, the Department of Surgery, and the Cincinnati Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center hosted the Association of Veterans Affairs (VA) Surgeons annual meeting May 7-9, 2006. The Central Surgical Association’s annual meeting will be held in Cincinnati in March, 2008. Dr. Syed Ahmad, Division of Surgical Oncology, will serve as local program director. All presentations and publications by surgical residents are located in the Publications Section, page 168. Resident names are indicated by bold type. (Photo courtesy of UC Communications Services/D. Davenport) Education Page 41
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