Surgery–

Education:
A Firm Foundation for Innovation

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Our educational program is a carefully calibrated balance between rigorous grounding in the basics and the fostering of an innovative process that is tightly linked to patient needs. Medical students, residents, and fellows all benefit from this balance.

Faculty in the Department of Surgery are active participants in all types of teaching at Stanford University and the Medical Center. Indeed our leadership in education at Stanford is illustrated by the following achievements: faculty teaching awards earned every year; our commitment to undergraduate education through teaching Freshman and Sophomore seminars on the University main campus; our faculty being active participants and leaders in the School of Medicine’s efforts to redefine the medical school curriculum; creation of new training programs such as the Surgical Innovation fellowship: and through numerous other formal and informal interactions with students and trainees.

Our Hand and Upper Limb Fellowship: brings together plastic and orthopedic surgeons as a fully integrated unit. It is an ideal model for academic centers because the collaborative approach helps surgeons understand the hand, elbow, and shoulder as an integrated unit.

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Our Division of Human Anatomy is fully staffed by practicing physicians with a proven expertise in teaching, a disappearing art. In fact, many other medical schools have eviscerated or eliminated staffs that teach anatomy. We strongly support the continued need for dissection-based introductory anatomy courses in medical school and undergraduate college. Annually, more than 200 students participate in one of our human anatomy classes. To facilitate this work, we have one the best-equipped anatomy labs and morgues in the world, including the Roy B. Cohn Bioskills Laboratories where students can learn the basics and experienced surgeons can try new techniques. Among other classes enjoyed by students are travel medicine (Emergency Medicine), international medicine (Emergency Medicine and Anatomy), recent advances in transplantation, Mandarin for medical professionals (General Surgery). See the School of Medicine online catalog and the University course catalog for a complete list of classes taught by Surgery faculty.

The Department of Surgery is committed to develop future leaders of surgery. Drs. Thomas M. Krummel and Myriam Curet serve as faculty sponsors for the Stanford University Surgery Interest Group (SIG). The SIG at Stanford is committed to promoting surgery as a career, enhancing surgical education of medical students at Stanford, and giving students every opportunity to thrive, learn and become a leader in surgery.

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