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RCS 815 - Dissertation Research Proposal Development
4 Credit Hours
This course gives students an opportunity to structure their research projects and write a proposal for their dissertation.
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RCS 816 - Dissertation Research
Varies 1, 3, 6, 7 Credit Hours
The objective of this course is to follow the dissertation research plan and track progress of dissertation research.
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RCS 819 - The Business of IVF
1 Credit Hours
Management of the IVF facility from the business perspective is the main goal of this course. Students will construct an analysis of a laboratory business plan and propose phased changes to make improvements.
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ORT 998 - Orthopedic Surgery
Non-site-specific elective with a member of the EVMS faculty
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ORT 999 - Orthopedic Surgery
Away elective
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PLS 998 - Plastic Surgery
Non-site-specific elective with a member of the EVMS faculty
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PLS 999 - Plastic Surgery
Away elective
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SUR 301 - Surgery
The EVMS Surgery Clerkship provides students with clinical experience in inpatient surgery at EVMS and partnering institutions as well as exposure to the outpatient surgical clinic. Our faculty and residents contribute to medical student education through direct observation in the clinical setting, bedside teaching, interactive case-based didactics, procedural skills, computer case simulation, review of clinical documentation, and student mentoring and advising. Students will develop the ability to demonstrate basic surgical and procedural skills and provide pre-operative and post-operative care to a diverse patient population.
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SUR 402 - Clinical Surgery - Professorial Service
The Acting Internship (AI) experience is designed to encourage senior medical students to assume patient care responsibilities similar to those of an intern (PGY-1 resident), including night call. Exposure to broad range of surgical conditions on the wards, in the operating room and clinics and full participation on the surgery professorial service. The student will participate in weekly teaching rounds with Dr. LD Britt and other faculty small group teaching sessions.
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SUR 404 - Shock/Trauma
This rotation is designed to introduce the student to the principles of initial assessment, resuscitation and decision making needed to deal with the multiply injured patient. Operative management, care in the intensive care unit and integration of care by multiple services are emphasized on daily rounds. The role of the Trauma Surgeon/team as coordinating physician is demonstrated especially regarding complex multi-system injury patients. The student will be assigned to one of the Trauma Teams. Responsibilities on call include care of all new incoming patients, ongoing care in the Burn Trauma Unit and on the floor service. The student is expected to function as an integral team member under the direction of the Chief Resident and attending staff. Initial reading material will be distributed at the start of the rotation.
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SUR 411 - Surgical and Breast Oncology
This is a senior elective (year M4) for any student interested in surgical oncology and breast surgery. The focus will be on the evaluation and staging of patients with common malignancies especially gastrointestinal cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, as well as unusual and complex problems. The importance of a well thought out treatment plan as well as the multi-modality approach to care, will be emphasized. Importance will be placed on the comprehensive management of the entire patient, not only from a medical standpoint, but also in terms of psychological, social, and rehabilitation aspects. The student will also become familiar with the complexity of current national protocol studies. The student will be assigned to patients for twice daily rounds, procedures and ward work. Students will be required to attend the tumor conferences. During the rotation the student will be expected to perform an indepth analysis each week on a tumor specific evaluation or treatment that the student encountered and give a brief 10-minute summary to the course director. The textbook for the course is “THE M.D. Anderson Surgical Oncology Handbook, 4th Edition, Lippincott, 2006”. Online reference for the course is “The National Comprehensive Cancer Network” ONCCN.
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SUR 416 - Emergency General Surgery Acting Internship
One M4 year student per rotation will have the opportunity to work on the Emergency General Service (EGS) at Sentara NGH for four weeks. They will be expected to function at the intern level helping the R2 and chief manage the service. They will be expected to see inpatient and ED consults and to round on patients on a daily basis. Call will be every 4th to 5th night with early release post call. Students will be off at least one weekend day per week. Students will participate in patient management, placement of central lines, arterial lines, PA catheters, chest tubes, tracheostomies, PEGs and OR cases. Students will participate in all Department of Surgery conferences and didactic sessions during their rotations. Each acting intern will be responsible for organizing one EGS journal club. This elective is ideal for the student interested in surgery or the subspecialties.
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SUR 417 - Clinical Vascular Surgery Acting Internship
One M4 year student per rotation will have the opportunity to learn the clinical aspects of Basic Science and Vascular Surgery.
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SUR 418 - Clinical Vascular Surgery Research
Retrospective Vascular Surgery Clinical Research. Student will have opportunity to work with research fellows and co-author studies.
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SUR 998 - Surgery
Non-site-specific elective with a member of the EVMS faculty
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SUR 999 - Surgery
Away elective
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Surgical Assisting |
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MSA 502 - Medical Terminology
2 Credit Hours
The medical terminology class is an intense, three-week course taught at the beginning of the surgical assisting student’s first year. The course employs a body systems-oriented, word-analysis approach to learning medical terminology. The goal of the class is to prepare students for the terminology they might encounter in their subsequent coursework, in their clinical rotations and ultimately in their roles as healthcare professionals.
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MSA 503 - Surgical Microbiology with lab
3 Credit Hours
Surgical Microbiology reviews the infectious processes and organisms, immune responses, risks to operating-room patients and personnel and universal precautions.
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MSA 504 - Advanced Topics of Surgical Assisting I
1 Credit Hours
Advanced Topics of Surgical Assisting is a monthly journal club that investigates topics addressed in the core curriculum classes as well as current issues impacting the surgical assisting profession. Course readings will be provided by program faculty and surgical assistant professional organizations.
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MSA 505 - Advanced Topics of Surgical Assisting II
1 Credit Hours
Advanced Topics of Surgical Assisting is a monthly journal club that investigates topics addressed in the core curriculum classes as well as current issues impacting the surgical assisting profession. Course readings will be provided by program faculty and surgical assistant professional organizations.
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MSA 506 - Operative Practices
2 Credit Hours
Lecture series is a seminar course that explores the details of topics such as attitude and etiquette in the OR, casting and splinting, stress management, ethics, surgical technique, OR conduct and patient interaction, back-table setup and the SA, trauma, sterile technique, gowning and gloving review. The seminars are conducted by program alumni and other medical professionals.
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MSA 507 - Surgical Rounds
3 Credit Hours
Surgical Rounds is a hands-on clinical training experience lead by surgical residents to complement the student’s didactic experience through active participation as part of a surgical team to develop the critical clinical skills needed for a surgical assistant.
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MSA 508 - Clinical Anatomy for Health Professions
5 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: MPA 5061 , PATH 504
Gross Anatomy is a regional study of anatomy related to surgical procedures with cadaver lab. It also includes review of physiology relevant to survey and an introduction to basic embryology, histology and pathology.
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MSA 510 - Advanced Surgical Pharmacology
2 Credit Hours
Advanced Pharmacology is a biophysical science based course which examines drugs used in surgery and emergency drugs, reviewing anaphylactic and toxicity reactions. The course also addresses anesthesia methods and agents and their methods of administration, describing how the surgical procedure may be affected by the agents used.
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MSA 513 - Minimally Invasive Surgery and Simulation Skills Lab
4 Credit Hours
This course is designed to give the surgical assistant student a broad look into minimally invasive surgery while introducing the techniques involved. Numerous subspecialties, how minimally invasive techniques are utilized, and the history of these techniques will be discussed. Students will engage in hands-on learning to help facilitate the learning curve once they are in their clinical year.
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MSA 515 - Surgical Physiology
4 Credit Hours
Surgical Physiology is a course provided by the biophysiology and applied surgical pathology for the advancement of knowledge application in the surgical environment designed for Surgical Assistant students. Topics including cell injury, inflammation and wound healing are covered.
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MSA 517 - Principles of Surgical Assisting I Lecture
2 Credit Hours
Principles of Surgical Assisting is a two-part course that teaches fundamental skills: Placement of monitoring devices, review of bladder catheterization, surgical positioning, application of tourniquets, prepping and draping, operative instrumentation, visualization techniques, hemostasis, suturing and knot tying techniques, dressings and drainage systems, post-operative pain control methods and the use of special equipment.
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MSA 518 - Principles of Surgical Assisting I Lab
2 Credit Hours
Principles of Surgical Assisting is a two-part course that teaches fundamental skills: Placement of monitoring devices, review of bladder catheterization, surgical positioning, application of tourniquets, prepping and draping, operative instrumentation, visualization techniques, hemostasis, suturing and knot tying techniques, dressings and drainage systems, post-operative pain control methods and the use of special equipment.
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MSA 519 - Principles of Surgical Assisting II Lecture
2 Credit Hours
Principles of Surgical Assisting is a two-part course that teaches fundamental skills: Placement of monitoring devices, review of bladder catheterization, surgical positioning, application of tourniquets, prepping and draping, operative instrumentation, visualization techniques, hemostasis, suturing and knot tying techniques, dressings and drainage systems, post-operative pain control methods and the use of special equipment.
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MSA 520 - Principles of Surgical Assisting II Lab
2 Credit Hours
Principles of Surgical Assisting is a two-part course that teaches fundamental skills: Placement of monitoring devices, review of bladder catheterization, surgical positioning, application of tourniquets, prepping and draping, operative instrumentation, visualization techniques, hemostasis, suturing and knot tying techniques, dressings and drainage systems, post-operative pain control methods and the use of special equipment.
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MSA 521 - Clinical Reasoning for Surgical Assisting
1 Credit Hours
Will provide the student with clinical reasoning skills set which is a fundamental tool of health care practitioners. The modality of the delivery of clinical reasoning content via case-based presentation of disease pathophysiological processes, assessment of the clinical patient, diagnostic tools, and interventions via a body systems approach.
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MSA 600 - Trauma Surgery Rotation
2 Credit Hours
The Trauma Surgery Rotation is a designed to expose surgical assistant students to the specialty dedicated to the care of the individual who has been injured, whatever the mechanism. Students will complete two 25-hour rotations with teams at specific clinical training sites.
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MSA 601 - Business of Surgical Assisting Services
3 Credit Hours
This course presents an in-depth overview of the business of surgical assisting. The student is exposed to all aspects of the surgical assisting business to help them make informed career decisions.
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MSA 602 - Medical Ethics of Surgical Assisting
2 Credit Hours
This course explores a variety of ethical and legal issues facing healthcare professionals and the Surgical Assisting profession.
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MSA 603 - Capstone Project
3 Credit Hours
This is an applied science and practice application course. Students develop an educational resource product in their area of surgical specialty concentration for contribution to the program’s resource library.
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MSA 606 - Leadership in Healthcare
1 Credit Hours
This course will equip the Surgical Assistant student with the basic managerial background, fundamentals, and theories that can be applicable at any level in management and in a leadership position. Students will be have exposure to the basic concepts of leadership and interaction of leadership, change, communications and power as seen in the health care environment.
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MSAR 700 - Surgical Clinical Rotations
24 Credit Hours
Eight six-week surgical clinical rotations (3 credits each): 1,920 hours of clinical experience with up to 25% of training in surgical specialty such as orthopedics, plastics, cardiac, vascular and neurological.
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URO 400 - Urology
This course includes experience with the broad, overall concepts of urologic disease and the practice of urology in the hospital and office setting. There will be an emphasis on the basic diagnostic procedures and treatment of patients with disease of the genitourinary organ system, male and female. Students will participate in assigned readings, diagnostic procedures, assist at surgery, and present patients at conferences. Students will become familiar with the American Urological Association (AUA) website - National Medical Student Curriculum, specifically the Core Content (all 9 areas) and Uroradiology cases (all 6 cases).
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URO 404 - Urological Surgery Acting Internship
The Acting Internship (AI) experience is designed to encourage senior medical students to assume patient care responsibilities similar to those of an intern (PGY-1 resident), including night call. This rotation will be offered to M4 students who are interested in a career in Urology. They will be expected to function at the intern level, helping the residents and chief manage the service. They will be expected to see inpatient and ED consults and to round on patients on a daily basis. Call will be every fourth night. Students will develop a broad knowledge base of the concepts of urologic disease and the practice of Urology in the hospital and outpatient setting. Emphasis will be placed on diagnostic procedures and treatment of patients with disease of the genitourinary organ system, male and female. Students will be responsible for assigned readings, carrying out diagnostic procedures, assist at surgery, and attending all departmental conferences where they will be expected to actively participate. Students will become familiar with the American Urological Association (AUA) website - National Medical Student Curriculum, specifically the Core Content (all 9 areas) and Uroradiology cases (all 6 cases).
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URO 998 - Urology
Non-site-specific elective with a member of the EVMS faculty
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URO 999 - Urology
Away elective
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