VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: Provides students with clinical experience in the evaluation and treatment of a wide variety of surgical diseases. Emphasis is placed on teaching students to recognize and manage basic clinical problems. Students function as active members of the surgical team, and follow patients throughout their in-patient course. Outpatient clinics provide the student with the ability to participate in the initial work-up and care plan of peri-operative patients. Basic surgical skills are taught in the operating room, in the emergency department setting, and in the Goodman Surgical Education Center. The clerkship offers an opportunity for students to integrate their knowledge of anatomy, physiology and physical diagnosis into a treatment plan for patients with surgical diseases. A blended learning curriculum is in place for all students at all sites. It combines case discussions with video pre-session material and related skills sessions. This curriculum covers the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases and principles of surgical management. A required textbook will be provided. Each student spends one 4 week rotation on a General Surgery service at Stanford, the VA, Kaiser, or SCVMC. The remaining 4 weeks are spent rotating on a Surgical Subspecialty; Breast Service, Endocrine, ENT, Orthopaedic, Pediatric, Plastic Surgery, Thoracic Transplant, Trauma, Urology, or Vascular. A full day orientation and skills session is held at the beginning of the 8 week period. The NBME Subject Exam is a required component of the clerkship. PREREQUISITES: None. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-SURG 12, full-time for 8 weeks, SURG 16 students per period from P1-P4, SURG 20 students per period from P5-P12. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Khoa Thomas Pham, M.D., tpham03@stanford.edu and Cheyenne Cassel Sonntag, M.D., csonntag@stanford.edu. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Robert Strachan and Marisol Rueda, surgeryclerkship@stanford.edu. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: Students will be sent information by e-mail; Time: TBA. CALL CODE: 1. OTHER FACULTY: Staff. LOCATION: SUMC, PAVAMC, SCVMC, KPMC.
6 units · Medical School MD Grades
VISITING: Closed to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Required. DESCRIPTION: Provides students with clinical experience in the evaluation and treatment of a wide variety of surgical diseases. Emphasis is placed on teaching students to recognize and manage basic clinical problems. Students function as active members of the surgical team, and follow patients throughout their in-patient course. Outpatient clinics provide the student with the ability to participate in the initial work-up and care plan of peri-operative patients. Basic surgical skills are taught in the operating room, in the emergency department setting, and in the Goodman Surgical Education Center. The clerkship offers an opportunity for students to integrate their knowledge of anatomy, physiology and physical diagnosis into a treatment plan for patients with surgical diseases. A blended learning curriculum is in place for all students at all sites. It combines case discussions with video pre-session material and related skills sessions. This curriculum covers the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases and principles of surgical management. A required textbook will be provided. Each student spends one 4 week rotation on a General Surgery service at Stanford, the VA, Kaiser, or SCVMC. The remaining 4 weeks are spent rotating on a Surgical Subspecialty; Breast Service, Endocrine, ENT, Orthopaedic, Pediatric, Plastic Surgery, Thoracic Transplant, Trauma, Urology, or Vascular. A full day orientation and skills session is held at the beginning of the 8 week period. The NBME Subject Exam is a required component of the clerkship. PREREQUISITES: None. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full-time for 8 weeks, 16 students per period from P1-P4, 20 students per period from P5-P12. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Khoa Thomas Pham, M.D., tpham03@stanford.edu and Cheyenne Cassel Sonntag, M.D., csonntag@stanford.edu. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Robert Strachan and Marisol Rueda, surgeryclerkship@stanford.edu. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: Students will be sent information by e-mail; Time: TBA. CALL CODE: 1. OTHER FACULTY: Staff. LOCATION: SUMC, PAVAMC, SCVMC, KPMC.
Offered in Autumn 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026, Summer 2026 at Stanford University.