An Experience in Surgical Anatomy to Provide First-Year Medical Students with an Early Exposure to General Surgery: A Pilot Study

Journal of Surgical Education

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 186-189

  Are, Chandrakanth ^a   Stoddard, Hugh A ^a   Northam, Lindsay C ^a   Thompson, Jon S ^a   Todd, Gordon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

career choice; general surgery; Interpersonal and Communication Skills; Medical Knowledge; Patient Care; Practice Based Learning and Improvement; Professionalism; surgical career; surgical education; survey; Systems Based Practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CURRICULUM; FACULTY STUDENT RELATION; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL WARD;

ANATOMY; CAREER CHOICE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PILOT PROJECTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 70350528597     PISSN: 19317204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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