Surgery
TITLE:
Surgery Global Health Elective -ICE
This is a Four week elective in Malawi. The Students will be rotating at Mzuzu Central Hospital under the Direct supervision of UC Adjunt Professor Dr. Charles Park. with the UC residents. The goal of the elective surgical rotation at Mzuzu Central Hospital, Mzuzu, Malawi is to provide the surgical trainee with a robust rural and international General Surgery experience under the guidance and supervision of senior surgeons.
Approximate Out of Pocket cost is about $3000 for the travel and $1000-2000 for additional costs including food, short weekend trips, etc.
Please see The Malawi Manual for Detailed instructions and information that cover all the details from travel/lodging and Vaccines to day to day activities.
Due to limited space, one will need to submit CV, paragraph about career goals and interest in global surgery to Dr. Goodman for selection purposes. Also, dates are not 100% certain until AFTER open enrollment. Students will need to apply Feb 1st before open enrollment.
PREREQUISITES:
Please submit CV, paragraph (no more than 250 words) on career goal and interest in global surgery to Dr. Goodman, Dr. Stryker, and Nicole Norman before open enrollment - around Feb 1st.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
INTERNATIONAL VISITING:
NO
COURSE QUALIFICATIONS:
ICE
STATUS:
Full-Time
OFFERED AS FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME:
NO
ALLOWS OVERLAP:
NO
COURSE LENGTH:
Months offered will be based on resident schedule
DIRECTOR:
Michael Goodman, MD
REPORT 1ST DAY:
Detailed instructions Provided in the Manual.
INSTRUCTION
LEARNING ACTIVITIES:
- Clinical Experience - Inpatient
- Demonstration (description, performance, or explanation of a process, illustrated by examples, observable action, specimens, etc)
- Patient Presentation--Faculty
- Concept Mapping (allows learners to organize and represent knowledge in an explicit interconnected network)
- Mentorship
- Peer Teaching
- Self-Directed Learning (Learners take initiative for their own learning; diagnosing needs; formulating goals; identifying resources; implementing appropriate activities; and evaluating outcomes.)
- Service Learning Activity
- Clinical Experience - Ambulatory
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT POLICIES:
UCCOM strives to provide medical students with a learning environment that is conducive to their professional growth. All UCCOM and visiting medical students are encouraged to review the Student Handbook.
The Office of Student Affairs and Admissions is available to all UCCOM and visiting medical students to discuss any concerns/questions related to the learning environment. Please call 558-6796 to access faculty/staff that can assist you.
ATTENDANCE AND ABSENCE POLICY
Session Attendance for M4 Students
- Students may miss no more than two days of planned excused absences on a four week rotation without being required to make-up the work, at the discretion of the clerkship/elective/course director or his/her designee.
- Non-AI Rotations - Per the Student Duty Hours Policy, an average of one day (24 hours) in every seven must be free of clinical responsibilities (including seminars, clinic, rounds, lectures) averaged over a four week period. These days off are assigned by the clerkship director to best align with the site schedule. Students may request to schedule 1 or more of these 4 days for planned absences that fall under 1 of the categories listed below for excused absences during non-AI rotations, in consultation with the course/elective director, who may or may not approve such planned absences.
- AI Rotations - Per the Student Duty Hours Policy, an average of one day (24 hours) in every seven must be free of clinical responsibilities (including seminars, clinic, rounds, lectures) averaged over a four week period. These days off are assigned by the course director to best align with the site schedule. Students may request to schedule 1 or 2 of these days for planned absences that fall under 1 of the categories listed below for excused absences during AI rotations, in consultation with the course director, who may or may not approve such planned absences. Students must avoid scheduling Step 2 examinations during an Acting Internship.
- Excused Absences - The following will be considered excused absences:
- Diagnostic, preventative, and therapeutic health services (e.g. doctor appointments, physical therapy, counselling, etc).
- Personal illness, accident or a major catastrophic event
- Death or serious illness of immediate family members. Immediate family members, as defined by UC, are Grandparents, Brother, Sister, Brother-in law, Sister-in-law, Daughter-in-law, Son-in-law, Father, Mother, Mother-in-law, Father-in-law, Step-sister, Step-brother, Step-mother, Step-father, Spouse or domestic partner, Child, Grandchild, legal Guardian or other person who stands in place of parent (in Loco Parentis)
- Whenever possible, planned absences should be requested a minimum of six weeks in advance of the start of the clerkship/elective/course in which the absence will occur; this enables the clerkship/course/elective to help plan for educational event scheduling (e.g. a known appointment could be scheduled around with enough notice and the student might not have any required coursework to make up). Absences requested less than 1 week prior to the planned absence may not be considered for a possible excused absence unless extenuating circumstances prevented the student from providing timely notification per the policy. Students should first submit their request for a planned absence to the clerkship/elective/course director using the online MSSF. All planned/excused absences for any reason should be documented on the MSSF.
- The COM abides by the UC Religious Observance Policy that respects the religious diversity of its students by providing opportunities, where possible, for accommodation in cases where conflicts exist between students’ religious beliefs/practices and educational activities. In clinical settings, such accommodations must honor the primacy of a commitment to patient care and avoid unduly burdening faculty, staff and the general student population involved in the affected educational and/or patient care activity.
- The following items are explained in detail in the Medical Student Handbook:
- Excused/unexcused/unplanned absence, religious holidays, jury duty, and make-up work
See Attendance and Absences Policy, Religious Observance Policy, Medical Student Handbook.