Medical Education – Pre-Med

OR Observership

OR Observers by the Numbers: March 2019 – Current

Overall Applications: 49
Placed: 33 | 4 Research | 3 Rescinded
Not Placed: 16 | Reached out to different department | Did not follow-up / deferred to another semester | Not eligible

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Clinic Observership

Clinic Observers by the Numbers: March 2019 – Current

Overall Applications: 32
Placed: 23
Not Placed: 9 | 2 Reached out to different department | 6 Did not follow-up / deferred to another semester | 1 too limited student availability

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Spring 2020 – Pilot for OR Application Match Success

Of 24 applications – 22 students were eligible and offered shadowing opportunities – 20 of these students accepted.

Each student that accepted an offer was matched with a high-ranked specialty and faculty whose schedule coincided with their classes.

For Students:

Request for Additional Information

• Resume/CV
• Cover Letter Indicating your Interest in the Surgical Field and Shadowing
• GPA
• Relevant Coursework Taken
• Grade Level
• Optional: Demographic Information

Shadowing align with Campus Calendar

• Fall Session: September 1st – December 31st
• Spring Session: February 1st – May 31st
• Summer Session: June 1st – August 31st

Application Acceptance Timeframe

• Fall Session: May 1st – August 1st
• Spring Session: August 1st – December 1st
• Summer Session: January 1st – April 1st

Application Deadlines

• Fall Session: August 1st
• Spring Session: December 1st
• Summer Session: April 1st

Student-Focused Drivers of these Initiatives:

1. To offer better match opportunities to students in their highest ranked areas of interest alongside their availability with class schedule and other obligations
2. To offer students an opportunity to strategically plan to integrate a shadowing opportunity into their already busy schedules
3. To offer better match opportunities with time to graduation considered
4. To offer more opportunities to more students
5. To ensure that students are committed to an opportunity offered to shadow Department of Surgery faculty
6. To support UWSMPH and the Department of Surgery’s commitment to supporting education opportunities for ethnically and racially diverse group of clinicians and scholars while maintaining an open, inclusive and respectful learning and working environment.

Administrative Review & Match Process

Following the application deadline:

• Applications are reviewed and prioritized based on eligibility, interest, availability, and academic progress.
• For eligible students, administration will reach out to department faculty on behalf of the students and provide the resume/cv, cover letter, grade level, and additional information to facilitate a match in the student’s highest ranked areas of interest and availability.
• All students will be notified of the application decisions and will be notified via e-mail by a predetermined date. Students will receive an e-mail including:
  • A shadowing offer (match),
  • Information explaining to students that that they do not meet the minimum requirements
  • An option to pursue a clinic shadowing opportunity if they are not matched.

Students will be notified of shadowing application decisions/assignments by the following dates:

• Fall Session: August 14th
• Spring Session: January 15th
• Summer Session: May 15th

Poster Groups

• Kamal, Zafirah; Kanan, Omar; Scarborough, John. “How public reporting of hospital performance has impacted CABG outcomes.”
• Chan, Alexandra; Temozihui Navarro, Rachel; Ahmed, Faiza; Scarborough, John. “Disparities in Complex Surgical Procedures.”
• Dwa, Arhat; Bunch Danielle; Mallannagari Sai; Godishala Shreya; Johnson, Tanner; Qadadha Yazeed; Rosser, Alexandra; Jung, Sarah. “Shared Mental Model (SMM) in Trauma Simulation Cases.”

DDCRC Student	Clinical Research Topic	Clinical Mentor	Research Mentor
Tanner Johnson	Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome	Luke Funk, MD, MPH	Sarah Jung, PhD
Danielle Bunch	Benign and Malignant Diseases of the Breast	Lee Wilke, MD	Sarah Jung, PhD
Shreya Godishala	Ventricular Septal Defect in Neonatal Patients	Joshua Medow, MD, PhD	Sarah Jung, PhD
Sai Likhith Mallannagari	Mechanical Thrombectomy and treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke	Joshua Medow, MD, PhD	Sarah Jung, PhD
Rachel Temozihui Navarro	Racial Disparity Outcomes in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft	Amy Fiedler, MD	John Scarborough, MD
Alexandra Chan	Angioplasty with stent placement	Courtney Morgan, MD	John Scarborough, MD
Faiza Ahmed	Treatment of Infants and Children with Cleft Lip	Catharine Garland, MD	John Scarborough, MD
Omar Kanan	Open Adrenalectomy	David Schneider, MD, MS	John Scarborough, MD
Zafirah Kamal	Thyroidectomy Focused on US and Africa Treatment Disparities	Kristin Long, MD, MPH	John Scarborough, MD

The Undergraduate Students all presented their research to scientists, faculty and trainees at the bi-Monthly Research In Progress forum within the Department of Surgery through July-August, 2019.

• Jacqueline Zuniga Paiz – Presented “Investigating the generation of necrotic RIP3-containing extracellular vesicles and their effect on necroptosis in macrophages” under the mentorship of Dr. Bo Liu in Vascular Surgery
• Nan Inmong Yang – Presented on “Barriers to Active Surveillance: Assessment of a Large Nationally Representative Cohort of Physicians” under the mentorship of Dr. Susan Pitt in Endocrine Surgery
• Adelle Durrell – Presented on “The Utilization of Opioids after Urologic Surgeries” under the mentorship of Dr. Kyle Richards in Urologic Surgery

The following abstracts have also been presented at regional/national meetings or published since our last progress report:

• Liu N, Cusack MC, Venkatesh M, Pontes AL, Shea G, Svoboda DC, Greenberg JA, Lidor AO, Funk LM. 30-Day Outcomes After Intraoperative Leak Testing for Bariatric Surgery Patients. J Surg Res. 2019 Oct;242:136-144. PMC6679992
• Xu J, Kwan C, Sunkara A, Mohamadipanah H, Bell K, Tizale M, Pugh CM. Dynamic Visual Feedback During Junctional Tourniquet Training. J Surg Res. 2019 Jan;233:444-452. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2018.08.044. PMID: 30502284
• Yang N, Saucke MC, Marka N, Hanlon B, McDow AD, Long KL, Pitt SC. Adoption of active surveillance: analysis of a large national cohort of physicians. American Thyroid Association. Chicago. Nov 2019. (Poster)
• Jacqueline Zuniga Paiz presented “Investigating the generation of necrotic RIP3 containing extracellular vesicles and their effect on necroptosis in macrophages” at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Anaheim, CA Nov 2019.