Surgery (SURG-MD)

Advanced Surgery

This is an advanced 4-week elective that seeks to build on surgical knowledge, and experiences gained in the pre-clerkship and clerkship years. It may be used to build upon experience from the 2-week Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Introductory Elective. Students will be expected to serve at the level of a sub-intern. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the core principles, foundational knowledge, and essential skills relevant to the specialty through encounters with a diverse range of cases reflective of this specialty. Students will gain this experience through exposure to the entire spectrum of the specialty including craniofacial surgery, microsurgery, hand surgery, truck and lower extremity reconstruction, breast reconstruction and cosmetic surgery.

This is an introductory 2-week elective that seeks to introduce students to the field of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. As an introductory elective, students will be expected to gain a broad understanding of the core principles, foundational knowledge, and essential skills relevant to the specialty through encounters with a diverse range of cases reflective of this specialty. Students will gain this experience through encounters with a diverse range of cases reflective of this specialty. Students will gain this experience through exposure to the entire spectrum of the specialty including craniofacial surgery, microsurgery, hand surgery, truck and lower extremity reconstruction, breast reconstruction and cosmetic surgery. Clinical research projects are always available for student participation but not required.

This is an introductory 2-week elective that seeks to introduce the student to the field of Hand Surgery. As an introductory elective, the student will gain a deeper understanding of the core principles, foundational knowledge, and essential skills relevant to the specialty through encounters with a diverse range of cases reflective of this specialty. Students will be exposed to operating room procedures, emergency room diagnosis and treatment, outpatient clinical evaluation of patients, care and evaluation of in-house patients and the varying didactic programs of the department. Each student will be assigned a faculty mentor and work on the Plastic Surgery Service at NYU Langone Hospital- Brooklyn.