Medical Student Education in General Surgery

This page is for the current students of Stony Brook's School of Medicine, and is dedicated to providing information and resources pertaining to general surgery, as well as to the clerkship program of the Department of Surgery.


Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
Richard Selzer, MD, FACS, in Letters to a Young Doctor (1982)


  Third-Year Medical Students

General Surgery Clerkship 2009–10

Third-Year Medical Student Resources

Online Curriculum [Restricted Access]

  • Abdominal Pain
  • More topics to come!

Problem-Based Learning [Restricted Access]

Hot Links





 
Despite outward appearances, it was actually not until the latter decades of the 19th century that the surgeon truly emerged as a specialist within the whole of medicine to become a recognized and respected clinical practitioner. Similarly, it was not until the first decades of the 20th century that surgery could be considered to have achieved the status of a bonafide profession.

 
[Rutkow IM. History of surgery. In: Townsend CM Jr, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, editors. Sabiston textbook of surgery. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2001: 1.]


  Fourth-Year Medical Students

Surgical Selectives

Surgical Sub-Internship [Curriculum Overview]

Challenge of a CaseTest Your Skills!

Fourth-Year Medical Student Resources



Our subscription is only available
on campus and at Tech Park
       
        Our subscription is only available
on campus and at Tech Park

Brunicardi FC, editor-in-chief. Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, 8th edition (2005)
[E-book via HSC Library]

Townsend CM Jr, editor-in-chief. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, 17th edition (2004)
[E-book via HSC Library access to MD Consult]

Knot Tying Manual
This manual is published by Ethicon, Inc., to "help train medical students, surgical residents, physician assistants, and others in the techniques of knot tying and the handling of sutures." To view the manual, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader: if you don't have it, download a free copy which is quick and easy to install.

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Surgical E-Journals
American Journal of Surgery
Annals of Surgery
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Archives of Surgery
Cardiovascular Surgery
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Journal of Vascular Surgery
Surgery


Over one bed in the ward, a small blue light
Announces a new soul. The bed is blue.
Tonight, for this person, blue is a beautiful color.
The angels of morphia have borne him up.
He floats an inch from the ceiling,
Smelling the dawn drafts.
I walk among sleepers in gauze sarcophagi.
The red night lights are flat moons. They are dull with blood.
I am the sun, in my white coat,
Gray faces, shuttered by drugs, follow me like flowers.

 
From "The Surgeon at 2 a.m."
by Sylvia Plath





Joseph Sorrento, MD
Course Director, Third-Year
Medical Student Education

E-mail: JJSORRENTO@aol.com
Phone: 631-754-7918
     

Louis Merriam, MD
Course Director, Fourth-Year
Medical Student Education

E-mail: LMERRIAM@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Phone: 631-444-8086
     

Linda Brochhausen
Administrative Director
Resident/Medical Student Programs

E-mail: LBROCHHAUSEN@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Phone: 631-444-1791

Surgeons must be very careful / When they take the knife! / Underneath their fine incisions / Stirs the culprit—Life!
Emily Dickinson, Poems: Second Series (1891)