Medical Student Education in General Surgery

ONLINE CURRICULUM


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n Abdominal Surgical Emergencies in the Elderly

n Acute Diverticulitis

n Acute Gonococcal Peri-hepatitis (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome): An Unusual Cause of Right Upper Quadrant Pain in a Young Woman

n Recognizing Abdominal Calcifications

n Recognizing Abdominal Soft Tissue Masses

n Recognizing Free Air

n Recognizing Small Bowel Obstruction, Large Bowel Obstruction, and Ileus

n Abdominal Pain in the Elderly

n Appendicitis

n Diverticulitis

n Ischemic Disorders of the Intestines

n A Patient with Right Upper Quadrant Pain

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n Acute Infectious Diarrhea

n Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis

n Acute Renal Colic from Ureteral Calculus

n Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea

n Back to the Basics

n Bacteriology of the Biliary Tree

n Chest Pain with a Surprising Course

n Clostridium Difficile Colitis (Clinical Image)

n Intestinal Ischemia

n Ischemic Bowel Disease in the Elderly

n Management of General Surgical Problems in the Pregnant Patient

n Mesenteric Ischemia (Clinical Image)

n Mesenteric Venous Thrombosis

n The Pathophysiology and Treatment of Sepsis

n Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in Adolescents

n Perforated Duodenal Ulcer (Clinical Image)

n Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

n Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

n Suspected Appendicitis

Pain is life—the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Charles Lamb

More Topics to Come


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