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    The perfect surgery student is hard working, eager to learn, respectful, and helpful. They are enthusiastic, humble, honest, and always strive to improve. They pay close attention to details, work well with others, and go above and beyond in their duties to provide excellent patient care.

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    The perfect surgery student is hard working, eager to learn, respectful, and helpful. They are enthusiastic, humble, honest, and always strive to improve. They pay close attention to details, work well with others, and go above and beyond in their duties to provide excellent patient care.

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    The perfect surgery student is hard working, eager to learn, respectful, and helpful. They are enthusiastic, humble, honest, and always strive to improve. They pay close attention to details, work well with others, and go above and beyond in their duties to provide excellent patient care.

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    The perfect surgery student is hard working, eager to learn, respectful, and helpful. They are enthusiastic, humble, honest, and always strive to improve. They pay close attention to details, work well with others, and go above and beyond in their duties to provide excellent patient care.

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    THE PERFECT SURGERY STUDENT

    Never whines
    Never pimps his residents or fellow students (or attendings)
    Never complains
    Is never hungry, thirsty, or tired
    Is always enthusiastic
    Loves to do scut work and can never get enough
    Never makes a fellow student look bad
    Is always clean (a patient sees only you and the wound dressing)
    Is never late
    Smiles a lot and has a good sense of humor
    Makes things happen
    Is not a “know-it-all”
    Never corrects anyone during rounds unless it will affect patient care
    Makes the intern/resident/chief look good at all times, if at all possible
    Knows more about her patients than anyone else
    Loves the O.R.
    Never wants to leave the hospital
    Takes correction, direction, and instruction very well
    Says “Sir” and “Ma’am” to the scrub nurses (and to the attending, unless
    corrected)
    Never asks questions he can look up for himself
    Knows the patient’s disease, surgery, indication for surgery, and the anatomy
    before going to the O.R.
    Is the first one to arrive at clinic and the last one to leave
    Always places x-rays up in the O.R.
    Reads from a surgery text every day
    Is a team player
    Asks for feedback
    Never has a chip on her shoulder
    Loves to suture
    Is honest and always admits fault and errors
    Knows when his patient is going to the O.R. (e.g., by calling)
    Is confident but not cocky
    Has a “Can-Do” attitude and can figure out things on her own
    Is not afraid to get help when needed
    Never says “No” or “Maybe” to involvement in patient care
    Treats everyone (e.g., nurses, fellow students) with respect
    Always respects patients’ modesty (e.g., covers groin with a sheet as soon as
    possible in the trauma bay)
    Follows the chain of command
    Praises others when appropriate
    Checks with the intern beforehand for information for rounds (test results/
    surprises)
    RUNS for materials, lab values, test results, etc., during rounds before any
    house officer
    Gives credit where credit is due
    Dresses and undresses wounds on rounds
    Has a steel bladder, a cast-iron stomach, and a heart of gold
    Always writes the OP note without question
    Always checks with the intern after rounds for chores
    Always makes sure there is a medical student in every case
    Always follows the patient to the recovery room
    In the O.R., always asks permission to ask a question
    Always reviews anatomy prior to going to the O.R.
    Does what the intern asks (i.e., the chief will get feedback from the
    intern)
    Is a high-speed, low-drag, hardcore HAMMERHEAD
    Define HAMMERHEAD. A hammerhead is an individual who places
    his head to the ground and hammers
    through any and all obstacles to get a job
    done and then asks for more work. One
    who gives 110% and never complains.
    One who desires work.

    June 5
    ASSIGNMENT:
    POST-IT DL IC > Piolo MNEMONIC >
    USMLE
    JUNE 5 1. Skin Lesions 1. Med 1. Allen’s Test Ecchymosis or
    2. Ostomy, dictionary 2. Boas’ sign discoloration of
    ectomy, app - Right subscapular pain
    otomy
    the flank
    resulting from in patients with
    3. Seen in Cholelithiasis
    patients retroperitoneal
    with 3. Courvoisier’s hemorrhage as
    cardiac law a result of
    tamponade: 4. Cullen’s sign dissecting
    1. JVD 5. Dance’s sign blood from the
    2. Decreased or 6. Fothergill’s retroperitoneum
    muffled heart sounds sign (Think:
    3. Decreased blood 7. Fox’s sign TURNer’s _
    pressure TURN side-to-
    side _ flank)

    Seen with
    carcinoid
    syndrome
    (Think:
    “FDR”):
    1. Flushing
    2. Diarrhea
    3. Right-sided
    heart failure

    Seen with
    cholangitis:
    1. Fever (chills)
    2. Jaundice
    3. Right upper
    quadrant pain
    (Pronounced
    “char-cohs”)

    Twitching of
    facial muscles
    upon tapping
    the
    facial nerve in
    patients with
    hypocalcemia
    (Think:
    CHvostek’s _
    CHeek)

    BERGMANS’s
    Seen with fat
    emboli
    syndrome:
    1. Mental status
    changes
    2. Petechiae
    (often in the
    axilla/thorax)
    3. Dyspnea

    Cushing’s
    triad

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