1.1 Finding Your Way Around
This quick-reference table is a work in progress. Please reach out if you're able to fill in any of these details for your classmates!
This quick-reference table is a work in progress. Please reach out if you're able to fill in any of these details for your classmates!
Surgical services function differently from medical services. Rather than rounding on your 3-4 assigned patients, you round with the whole team on all patients admitted under the service.
Instead of rounding on patients the entire day with breaks for teaching and coffee, inpatient rounds are started as early as necessary to finish before the OR or clinic starts.
Ideally you are assigned tasks during the day based on the quality of learning opportunity, but patient care may demand that you take on tasks based on what the team needs. In a given day, you may find yourself bouncing between the ward, the OR, and the clinic. Be proactive about making your learning goals known – if there’s something you want to see or do, let the team know and they’ll do their best to accommodate you. Attend your assigned staff’s clinics and ORs when possible.
There are too many tasks and orders to keep everything in your mind. Write all to-do’s next to each patient on your list with a small checkbox. When you’ve completed something, check it off. That way you can review everything you’ve done at the end of the day and it’s already organized by patient.
Instead of rounding on patients the entire day with breaks for teaching and coffee, inpatient rounds are started as early as necessary to finish before the OR or clinic starts.
Ideally you are assigned tasks during the day based on the quality of learning opportunity, but patient care may demand that you take on tasks based on what the team needs. In a given day, you may find yourself bouncing between the ward, the OR, and the clinic. Be proactive about making your learning goals known – if there’s something you want to see or do, let the team know and they’ll do their best to accommodate you. Attend your assigned staff’s clinics and ORs when possible.
There are too many tasks and orders to keep everything in your mind. Write all to-do’s next to each patient on your list with a small checkbox. When you’ve completed something, check it off. That way you can review everything you’ve done at the end of the day and it’s already organized by patient.
We found the following resources useful, but you are in no way obligated to use or purchase them.
3 commonly used references that are very approachable and brief include:
1) Case Files Surgery
2) Surgical Recall
3) Dr Pestana's Surgery Notes
1) Case Files Surgery
2) Surgical Recall
3) Dr Pestana's Surgery Notes
Make sure to check out Best practice in Surgery app made by the University of Toronto! Get the app or just browse the website.
http://www.bpigs.ca Useful to find up to date guidelines for common problems (e.g. pancreatitis, antibiotic use for different presentations such as diverticulitis, cholecystitis, appendicitis.. and recovery after surgery!) |