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)