Description
What you will Learn ?
By the end of this Surgery course, students will be able to:
- Take and document comprehensive surgical histories and perform accurate systemic physical examinations.
- Interpret clinical findings and select, order, and evaluate appropriate diagnostic investigations.
- Communicate examination findings, diagnoses, and investigation results clearly to patients and their families.
- Provide patient counselling while upholding professional ethics, confidentiality, dignity, and privacy.
- Apply principles of pre-operative and post-operative care, including informed consent, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte management, transfusion therapy, and complication management.
- Recognize, assess, and manage common surgical conditions across major body systems.
- Perform basic surgical skills and selected procedures safely within the scope of clinical medicine practice.
- Identify surgical emergencies and apply initial management, including trauma and acute abdomen care.
- Recognize conditions requiring specialised or higher-level surgical intervention and initiate timely referral.
- Work effectively within multidisciplinary surgical teams to support safe and patient-centred care.
Course Requirementsn
To successfully enrol in and complete the Surgery course, students are expected to meet the following requirements:
Academic Eligibility: Registration in the BSc Clinical Medicine programme or an approved equivalent qualification as determined by CURECAMPUS.
Attendance: Mandatory attendance in all lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, and clinical demonstrations as stipulated by the programme.
Clinical Participation: Active participation in clinical skills sessions, ward-based learning, and supervised practical activities.
Continuous Assessment: Completion of all required assessments, including quizzes, flashcards, vivas, and post-tutorial question-and-answer sessions.
Practical Competency: Demonstration of competence in basic surgical skills and procedures taught during the course.
Professional Conduct: Adherence to ethical standards, patient confidentiality, and professional behaviour in all learning and clinical environments.
Prescribed Reading: Engagement with recommended textbooks and learning materials to support theoretical and clinical understanding.
Assessment Compliance: Successful completion of all assessments and examinations in accordance with CURECAMPUS academic regulations.
Course Descriptionn
The Surgery course in the BSc Clinical Medicine programme at CURECAMPUS provides students with core knowledge and practical skills to assess, manage, and appropriately refer patients with common surgical conditions. The course emphasizes surgical history taking, physical examination, diagnostic interpretation, ethical practice, patient communication, and the performance of basic surgical skills and procedures.
Students are introduced to pre- and post-operative care, acute surgical conditions, trauma, burns, paediatric surgery, orthopaedics, urology, and common system-based surgical disorders. Learning is supported through continuous assessments, including quizzes, vivas, and tutorials, and guided by standard surgical textbooks.
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