Most Common and Most Feared Oral Board Surgical Descriptions

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

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🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We are two days before our oral boards, and this is what we are going to say for our surgical descriptions. We hope you find these helpful.

Big thanks to Geb Black, a Major in the US Army, and a trauma fellow at UT Southwestern.

Matt Smith a vascular surgery fellow at Cornell/Columbia combined fellowship in NYC.

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0:00.0	Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery
0:06.0	from leaders in the Knife. Today we have a special
0:25.9	episode for you coming from Philadelphia. I'm here with my co-fellow Matt
0:30.4	Smith and my former co-resident Jeb Black and we are about two days away from taking our oral boards.
0:36.9	And so out of necessity to learn all these procedures we decided to sit down and write them out and then
0:43.4	record them for all of you guys to benefit from. So we're going to cover about 20 to
0:48.6	30 scenarios that are the most likely scenarios you'll see on the oral boards.
0:52.2	We're trying to make them as
0:53.4	brief as possible and we hope you guys get some benefit out of this. So thanks to
0:58.8	Matt and Jeb for taking their Saturday night to record some oral board scenarios.
1:04.0	Hope you guys enjoy.
1:05.0	Hi everybody, this is Jeb.
1:07.0	We're going to go through our first scenario.
1:09.0	It's actually three scenarios in one.
1:11.0	So we're going to cover Heidel hernia repair,
1:13.6	parasophagial hernia as well as fund applications, because a lot of the
1:18.1	steps are similar. So initially you're going to position the patient either
1:22.0	supine with a footboard in
1:23.5	lithotomy position or split leg. That's your personal choice. Gain access
1:28.3	into the abdomen, put in your liver retractor, and then you're going to begin by insizing the
1:34.0	gastrophetic ligament and bluntly dissect until you can view the right
1:37.9	cruise to the diaphragm. Blondly mobilize the esophagus
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