Clerkships

• SURG 300A Surgery Core Clerkship

The General Surgery Core Clerkship for third year Stanford medical students is intended to provide students with a basic overview of surgery and its specialties. Emphasis is placed on teaching students to recognize and manage basic clinical problems and offers an opportunity for students to integrate their knowledge of anatomy, physiology and physical diagnosis into a treatment plan for patients with surgical diseases. The students function as active members of a surgical team evaluating and treating these patients. The General Surgery Core Clerkship is offered at Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Santa Clara and provides experience with patients who have various disease entities and who are usually evaluated and treated by general surgeons and subspecialty surgeons. Basic surgical skills are taught in the operating room, in the emergency department setting, and in weekly sessions in the Goodman Surgical Education Center. 

• SURG 338A Advanced Surgery Clerkship 

The Advanced Surgery Clerkship is a sub-internship offered by the Division of General Surgery to both Stanford and visiting medical students in their fourth year of medical school who are interested in a more intense surgical experience and a possible career in surgery. The curriculum focuses on practical skills, including wound care and bedside procedures, and intern-level floor management, from writing orders to managing pages from nurses. Students are assigned to one of the general surgery teams at Stanford Hospital. 

The Advanced Surgery Clerkship is available during periods 1-4 only. Stanford medical students can enroll via the MEP process. Visiting students must review the Stanford School of Medicine Visiting Clerkships web site for information about the application process, which includes completing our pre-approval request form that is available February - March annually.

We look forward to meeting you!

surgeryclerkship@stanford.edu