Rotation Coordinator
Sandeep Gurram, MD
Rotation Description
Students may rotate through the Urologic Oncology Service for a minimum of four weeks or a maximum of eight weeks. Students will be expected to evaluate inpatients and new consults, assist with operative procedures, correlate clinical correlate clinical and laboratory findings on assigned patients, and present patients at ward rounds and branch wide multi-disciplinary conferences. Students will be participating in outpatient services, patient screening for clinical trials , and consultation of urologic problems. Students will also present a didactics lecture in our branch grand rounds with guidance from their mentors. . The teaching program introduces the medical students to the principles of surgical oncology. Although the primary orientation is surgery, the integration of other treatment methods is stressed. Students may choose to also participate in our therapeutics section, where they will be exposed to medical oncology clinic and understand the integration of medical and surgical oncology.
Although laboratory research is closely coordinated with clinical activities in the Urologic Oncology Branch, the student will not engage in laboratory investigations of the section during this course. However, the student will integrate current ongoing research themes to better understand their clinical role. Opportunity for such work is available to postgraduate trainees in the Clinical Associates Fellowship Program.
The rotation is open to fourth-year students. Students interested in coming to the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute during holidays or summer vacations, or at a time when a session is not scheduled, may request special dates on their applications. The same advantages for learning and participating in the work of the branch will be offered during these extra courses.
Staff
- W. Marston Linehan, MD
- Pinto A. Peter, MD
- Mark W. Ball, MD
- Valdimir Valera, MD
- Sandeep Gurram, MD
- Raju Chelluri, MD
- Ramaprasad Srinivasan, MD