SURG 5482 - RENAL, PANCREATIC AND LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
This is a four (4) week elective for medical students interested in learning about renal, pancreatic or liver transplantation. The student will have an opportunity to participate as a member of a busy transplant team. They will be involved in the evaluation and treatment of a large number of patients referred here with hepatic or renal disease for consideration of resection or transplantation therapy, or patients with type i diabetes mellitus for pancreas transplantation. They will attend the various conferences and, if possible, pre-and post-transplant clinics. Students will be offered the opportunity to scrub in the operating room on both living and deceased donor transplants. There will be no mandatory call; however, students should be aware of the fact that many transplantations occur at night or on the weekends. The student can participate in the post-operative care of transplant patients, including experience in the surgical ICU. Both through selected reading materials that offer an introductory exposure to transplantation, and through participation in patient care and rounds, students will learn the basic principles of evaluation and management both pre- and post-transplantation, immune-suppression, and infectious prophylaxis.
Academic Career: Medical School
Course Component: Clinical
Grade Component: H/HS/S/LS/U
Course Attributes: School of Medicine Year 4

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