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Surgical Skills Curriculum

Intern Orientation Week

  • Department Overview
  • Curriculum Overview
  • Chair Introduction
  • Informed Consent
  • Informed Consent Simulation
  • Informed Consent Team Building
  • Introduction to Skills Lab
  • Mental Skills
  • ERAS with Dr. Wooden
  • Admin Chief Talk
  • SIMPL:
  • MedHub/ACGME
  • Prioritization with Dr. Choi
  • Time Management with Dr. Mong
  • Central Lines 1
  • Upstander Training with Drs. Meagher and Tori
  • Headshots
  • Post-Op Fever
  • Wellness with Dr. Gray
  • Aseptic Technique, Foley catheter, local administration
  • Chest Tube 1 + EM Residents
  • Intern Sim Day at Fairbanks
  • Do's- Don'ts vascular/prds/transplant
  • AIDET with Dr. Rescorla
  • Riley Medical Safety Advocate
  • Patient Safety/Quality Improvement
  • IPASS
  • Airway and Intubation
  • Small Group Session 1
  • Medical Reconciliation
  • ABSITE - What is it, how to study?
  • Consults
  • Administrative Responsibilities
  • Central Lines 2
  • Nurse Shadowing Group 1
  • Discharge Planning
  • Research with Dr. Markel
  • Discharge Summary
  • Skills Curriculum Session 2
  • Nurse Shadowing Group 2
  • Small Group Session 2
  • Teaching Medical Students
  • Intern Olympics
  • Final Questions
  • Hospital Tours/Meet Teams

All intern curriculum (except orientation week) is held weekly on Thursday afternoons from 1–4:30 pm. Depending on the group, students may be split into two groups.

  • Session 1 Introduction
  • Session 2: Instrument/suture ID
  • Central Line 3 (assessment)
  • Session 3: Palming, intro suturing, instrument tie
  • Summer lecture series with Dr. Mong
  • Session 4: Knot tying
  • Chest Tube 2 (Assessment)
  • Session 5: Knot tying 2
  • Summer Lecture series with Dr. Mong (individual ACS score reviews)
  • Session 6: suturing 1
  • Summer lecture series with Dr. Mong ( ACS weaknesses)
  • Session 7: suturing 2
  • Summer lecture series with Dr. Mong (ACS weaknesses)
  • Free practice
  • Trauma Team Training at Fairbanks
  • End of Curriculum Assessments
  • Summer Lecture Series with Dr. Mong (Intern Check-In)
  • Intro to Robotics
  • Laparotomy Incisions and Closure
  •  Intro to laparoscopy, camera driving, FLS
  • Laparotomy (assessment)
  • I&D
  • Thanksgiving (no lab)
  • Drains, Wound Vac, Ostomies, NG Tubes
  • Access - POCUS, A-Line, IO, IV
  • Mid-Year Assessment Olympics
  • Christmas Holiday (no lab)
  • New Year's (no lab)
  • I&D, drains, US access (assessment)
  • Ergonomics 1
  • Ergonomics 2
  • Cricothyroidectomy and tracheostomy
  • Preparing for a case
  • Lap Hernia Repair
  • Catharsis Talk
  • Open Hernia Repair
  • OSCE
  • Intro to Mock Orals
  • Open Tissue Dissection, vessel harvest
  • Intro to lap chole
  • Electrolytes and Nutrition
  • Intro to Lap Appy
  • Death summaries and pronouncing
  • Trauma Team Training at Fairbanks
  • Ultrasound
  • Plastics - V-Y flaps, dog ear repair, skin biopsies
  • Bias training and bystander training
  • Intro to endoscopy
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Mental Skills
  • End of the year assessment Olympics

  • Annual Assessments
  • HSB & Stapled Anastomosis Teach
  • HSB & Stapled Anastomosis Practice
  • HSB & Stapled Anastomosis Testing
  • Vascular Anastomosis
  • Intro to LVHR & Mesh (simulator)
  • Breast Ultrasound (cadaver)
  • Axillary Dissection & Partial Mastectomy w/SAVI (cadaver)
  • Lap Ventral Hernia Teach
  • Lap Ventral Hernia Practice
  • Lap Ventral Hernia Test
  • Lap Splenectomy (cadaver)
  • Vascular
  • Open Right / Left Hemicolectomy (cadaver)
  • Ostomy and Feeding Tubes (cadaver)
  • Vascular Anastomosis-carotid endarterectomy

  • ATLAS
  • Annual Assessments
  • Vascular Anastomosis
  • Mastectomy (cadaver)
  • Thyroid/Parathyroid & Thyroid Ultrasound (cadaver)
  • ASSET
  • Lap Nissen Teach /Practice 1/2 ATLAS TEST
  • Lap Nissen Teach/ Practice 1/2 ATLAS TEST
  • Lap Nissen Test
  • Lap Right Hemi (cadaver)
  • Vascular
  • Annual Assessment
  • Lap Inguinal Hernia Repair (cadaver)
  • Vascular-Fem Pop

  • ATOM
  • ATOM
  • ATOM
  • ATOM
  • Optional ATLAS – RSVP required
  • Whipple (cadaver)
  • Annual Assessment
  • Lap Bowel Anastomosis Teach
  • Lap Bowel Anastomosis Practice
  • Lap Bowel Anastomosis Test
  • Gastric Resection (cadaver)
  • Annual Assessment
  • Resident Assessment
  • Lap Adrenalectomy (cadaver)

  • Optional ATLAS – RSVP required
  • Lap Sigmoidectomy (cadaver)