Mark A. Hardy, M.D.
Co-Director (left)
Office: Milstein 7GS-313
Phone: Ext. 5-3038
Email: mah1@columbia.edu

Mahmoud El-Tamer, M.D.
Co-Director (right)
Office: HIP 10
Phone: Ext. 5-0728
Email: me180@columbia.edu

The clerkship in General Surgery is given ten times continuously through the Calendar year. Students are divided into four groups for their clinical work, presenting the general surgery services in the Milstein, Allen Pavilion, Bassett or St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. There, in concert with senior and junior surgical house officers, they participate in the care of hospitalized patients. The students are assigned patients for whom they have primary care responsibility, provide day to day follow-up, and participate in operative procedures. Night call is usually every fourth night. A call room is provided in the hospital.

An attending surgeon acts as preceptor for each group, meeting one hour each day, five days a week, and conducts seminars on assigned topics of general surgical interest. Attending specialists are brought in for guest lectures on curriculum topics as well. In addition, there are weekly departmental seminars in Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Radiology and Pathology.

Students are assigned to the emergency room once to learn skills needed to provide care in trauma. Students are also encouraged to participate in the ambulatory surgery clinics which meet daily.