| | | Introduction | The Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Geisinger Medical Center offers a four-week elective rotation to fourth-year medical students. Our department provides both inpatient and outpatient general thoracic surgical care to adult patients from the central Pennsylvania region, with a wide variety of disease processes involving primarily the neck, mediastinum, pleural space, lungs, esophagus, pericardium, and chest wall. Surgical oncology is of primary interest, including malignancies of the lung, esophagus, pleura, mediastinum, and chest wall, as well as other malignancies metastatic to the chest. Minimally-invasive techniques, especially video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), are employed whenever possible, appropriate, and safe. | The medical student is integrated into the service by active participation in the daily care of our patients. In doing so, students are expected to demonstrate the ability, at a level appropriate for their training, to do the following clinical tasks: - Perform independent initial evaluations of patients seen in consultation
- Formulate relevant detailed differential diagnoses;
- Recommend appropriate work-up sequences;
- Participate in the informed consent process;
- Become familiar with basic surgical anatomy;
- Understand goals of surgical therapy;
- Actively participate in operative procedures;
- Maintain daily inpatient follow-up on assigned patients.
Our teaching faculty includes: Matthew A. Facktor, MD, FACS (director of the department); Tasha R. Koch, PA-C (dedicated thoracic surgery physician assistant); and rotating general surgery residents at Geisinger Medical Center. The clerkship coordinator is Anne Broyan. The Department of Thoracic Surgery is proud to offer this exciting educational opportunity. We are confident that you will have a pleasant and rewarding educational experience. Acceptance into the elective is granted by application only. | Anne Broyan
Clerkship Coordinator
ambroyan@geisinger.edu
570-214-3607 phone | Matthew A. Facktor, MD, FACS
Director, Thoracic Surgery
Director, Medical Student Clerkship, Division of Surgery
Geisinger Medical Center |
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