Core Curriculum
- Weekly, Tuesday mornings for 90 minutes
- Resident and faculty lead sessions
- Interactive and case based
The Core Curriculum in General Surgery, is designed to (1) provide residents with a strong knowledge base in the fundamentals of diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases during our weekly Core Course didactic sessions, and (2) augment and solidify residents’ knowledge of essential topics in other disciplines, including Cardiology, Pulmonology, Oncology, Nephrology, Endocrinology and Radiology through additional lectures by specialists from each of these fields.
The weekly 90 minute Core Course has 3 components: (1) required reading from the Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, alternative reading also provided (Greenfield’s Textbook of Surgery). (2) 30 minute lecture by the assigned resident, summarizing the key points of the chapter. The resident is assigned a level- appropriate topic and sends slides to the Attending Mentor 5 days in advance for review and feedback, teaching them the art of making a succinct and effective presentation. (3) The resident presentation is immediately followed by 60 minutes of case-based, teaching by the Attending Mentor. The attendings are selected by the residents as exemplary educators and teach on a voluntary basis. In the last 18 months, since the implementation of this system, we have not had a single attending miss an assigned lecture and resident participation and satisfaction in the educational experience has dramatically improved. 30% of the questions are directed at the junior residents (R1, 2) and 70% at the senior residents (R3-5).
General Surgery Core Curriculum Lectures
You can find a current schedule of our lectures on our Scalpel website (http://scalpel.stanford.edu/) and by clicking on the “Stanford Calendar”.
07-08 Basic Science Lectures:
| Presenter |
Title of Presentation |
Jeffrey Norton, MD |
Gene-Directed Surgery: The Future is Now |
George Yang, MD |
Genomic Responses to Hypoxia and their role in Cancer and the Injury Response |
Jill Helms, MD |
Generating and Regenerating Skeletal Tissues |
Waldo Concepcion, MD |
Tolerance Induction in Organ Transplantation |
7th Annual Holman Lecture in Surgery |
The Pathophysiology of Muscle Ischemia and the Reperfusion Syndrome |
Carlos Esquivel, MD |
Pediatric Liver Transplantation |
Lana Schumacher, MD, (R3) |
Immunosensitization of Tumor Cells to Dendritic Cell-Activated Immune Responses with the Proteasome Inhibitor Bortezomib |
Danagra Ikossi, MD, (R3) |
Continuous Muscle Tissue Oxygen Monitoring as a Guide for Resuscitation in Critically Injured Patients: A Prospective Observational Study |
Tom Nguyen, M.D. (R2) |
Cardiac mechanics and physiology |
Mike Gertner, MD, Consulting Assistant Professor of Surgery and Co-Director, Surgical Innovation Program at Stanford Surgical Innovation Fellows at Stanford
|
Nanotechnology, Surgery, and Innovation |
Maureen Tedesco, M.D. (R2) |
Molecular Imaging of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms |
Bethany Slater, M.D. (R2) |
Cranial Osteogenesis and Suture Morphogenesis in Xenopus laevis: A Unique Model System for Studying Cranial Development |
Saif Ghole, M.D. (R2) |
Wnt Signaling in Neuroblastomas |
Oscar Abilez, M.D. (R2) |
Engineering a Cardiovascular Tissue Graft from Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
Matthew Kwan, M.D. (R3) |
Skeletal Tissue Engineering Using Adipose-Derived Stem Cells |
Hari Thangarajah, M.D. (R3) |
The Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Endothelial Progenitor Cell Formation and Adult Vasculogenesis |
Mike Song, M.D. (R5) |
The Role of TGF-B in Murine Cranial Suture Fusion |
Lana Schumacher, M.D. (R3) |
Immunosensitization to Immune Dendritic Cell Activated Immune |
Vernon Sondak, MD |
Melanoma Vaccines |
Denise Johnson, MD |
The Immune Profile of Breast Cancer Lymph Nodes |
Jill Helms, MD |
It’s All In Your Head: New Insights into Craniofacial Development, Diversity, and Deformities |
Jeff Norton, MD |
Immune Response to Cancer |
Charley Taylor, MD, PhD |
Image-based Modeling of Blood Flow in Arteries: Applications to Disease Research and Surgical Planning |
Stephan Busque, MD |
Stanford’s Tolerance Induction Protocol after Kidney Transplantations |
Professor Etienne Sokal, MD, PhD |
Liver Cell Transplantation in Brussels: Current Results and Perspectives |
Jim Chang, MD |
Tissue Engineering for the Hand: Update from the Bunnell Traveling Fellowship |
Marc Melcher, MD |
Paired Organ Donation in Kidney Transplant |
Ralph Horwitz, MD |
Methods of Science and the Science of Inference |
George Yang, MD |
Biology of Bone Fracture Healing |
Jill Helms, MD |
Tissue Regeneration via Wnts |
Geoffrey Gurtner, MD |
Thermo reversible Polymers for Quick and simple Surgical Anastomoses |
2008 Chandler Lecture |
Fetal Surgery |
Jeffrey Norton, MD |
Pancreatic Cancer Update |
Stefanie Jeffrey, MD |
Molecular Profiling of Circulating Tumor Cells |
