Spring 2027

Transplantation Elective

A transplantation elective involving direct supervision by fellows/attending physicians, operative procedures, case presentations, and independent patient care preparation.

offering recorded2–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 David Al-Adra

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Perform a hypothesis driven history and complete a targeted exam

  • Develop and present a weighted differential diagnosis for medical and surgical conditions

  • Using clinical evidence, adapt and justify the working diagnosis

  • Present a diagnostic plan including laboratory and imaging modalities

  • Correctly interpret imaging and laboratory findings and communicate results to patients and team members

  • Develop and implement effective patient management plans

  • Complete written documentation in a comprehensive, concise, accurate and timely manner

  • Review, interpret, and present current literature to support patient care

  • Communicate effectively with patients, families, physicians and non-physician team members

  • Communicate and collaborate with consultants and/or primary team and other providers to coordinate care

  • Engage patients in shared decision making regarding tests, orders, and procedures

  • Avoid medical jargon when communicating with patients and families

  • Recognize limitations and seek assistance as appropriate

  • Observe the process of obtaining informed consent prior to surgical intervention

  • Recognize perioperative conditions that determine patient level of care and interpret physiologic changes that require changing that level of care

  • Perform minor procedures with supervision

  • Demonstrate the ability to manage time and understand, access, and utilize the resources and systems necessary to provide optimal patient care

  • Engage Phase 2 medical students in patient management plans, decision making regarding tests, orders, and procedures, and review of current literature

  • Demonstrate self-directed learning

  • Recognize a patient requiring urgent or emergent care

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
SURGERY 960

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  • Graduate/professional standing

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Spring 2027
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DAVID AL-ADRA is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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FLD 008Classroom Instruction0 / 100
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FLD 005Classroom Instruction0 / 50
FLD 001Classroom Instruction0 / 50
FLD 012Classroom Instruction0 / 50
FLD 009Classroom Instruction0 / 50
FLD 010Classroom Instruction0 / 50
FLD 011Classroom Instruction0 / 50
FLD 006Classroom Instruction0 / 50

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Student experience

the class

Direct supervision by Transplant fellows and attending physicians. Participate in regularly scheduled supervisor-student meetings, which involve some or all of the following: rounding on service patients, participating in scheduled operative procedures, presenting cases and teaching topics, and discussing patient cases. Complete independent activities including some or all of the following: reading about patient conditions and preparing for direct patient care as needed. Attend conferences associated with the assigned general surgery service. Complete other patient care related learning activities as assigned by instructors; these are dependent on the individual student, the patients under the student's care, and the location.

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Topics

  • Transplantation medicine and surgery.
  • Clinical rotations, operative participation, and general surgery service conferences.
  • Perioperative care and physiologic monitoring.
  • Evidence-based practice and literature review.

Skills

  • Hypothesis-driven history taking, targeted examination, and developing weighted differential diagnoses.
  • Presenting diagnostic plans with lab/imaging modalities and interpreting/communicating findings.
  • Developing patient management plans and performing minor procedures under supervision.
  • Effective communication with diverse teams and engaging patients in shared decision-making.

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UW–Madison

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SURGERY 960 · Spring 2027

Transplantation Elective

Recorded 2026-10-14
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