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Surgery 101: The Survival Guide
As I have currently been completing one of my final surgery rotations — I think it’s time I introduce my audience to the real side of surgery, not what you see in Grey’s Anatomy, or House MD. Let me start by saying, this will be one of your most memorable experiences in your clinical years — it may be the only chance you will ever have to see a liver transplant, an open-heart surgery, a laparoscopic gastric bypass, or even a simple appendectomy.
If you want it to be, it can be an unbelievable experience, but it can also be quite intimidating. In the end, think of it as an opportunity to learn some basic concepts about surgery that will benefit you regardless of which field you chose to go into.
To start, there are four basic parts to any surgery: rounds, the operating room, clinic, and call.
What’s Not Being Taught In Med School
Med students are taught about everything from pathology to microbiology, but are they asked to learn enough about public health policy?
In medical school..
Forget about how you crammed for exams in your undergraduate. In medical school, studying is about more than just passing exams; it’s the fact that knowing something can actually help, and even save someones life.
Although, to get to that stage you have to pass exams. And, thankfully missing things in exams is the same as missing them in real life — so we study, study, and study some more.
