Curriculum
TUTORIALS IN GENERAL SURGERY
PHILOSOPHY
We, the Faculty of the TUTORIALS IN GENERAL SURGERY, believe
that:
1. Man exists not only for himself but also for other people
in the community.
2. Society exists for the welfare of men.
3. Health is a fundamental right of every person.
4. There will always be surgical health problems in every
person and in every community at one time or another.
5. The surgical training institution exists because of the
surgical health problems that are prevalent in every
person and in every community.
6. The surgical training institution should help solve the
surgical health problems of the community through its
administrators, faculty, students, and graduates and
through a primary health care approach.
7. Trainees shall be treated as adult learners.
8. All adults are capable of learning given the proper
guidance and support.
9. Active learning activities yield the best results.
10. Learning to become a competent physician-general surgeon
is best achieved through a problem-based and a
competency-based learning approach.
11. Learning to be a community-oriented physician-general
surgeon is best achieved through a community-based
learning approach.
12. Surgical education is a life-time learning process.
13. All physician-general surgeons should have competency in
self-directed learning.
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TUTORIALS IN GENERAL SURGERY
VISION, MISSION, AND GOAL
We, the Faculty of the TUTORIALS IN GENERAL SURGERY,
envision and aim to produce graduates who:
1. Will solve the surgical health problems of an
identified community as a priority over other communities.
2. Can solve the health problems of a community other than
that of the identified community.
3. Can pass the Philippine Board of Surgery examination.
4. Are competent (effective, efficient, and humane) in the
practice of their surgical profession.
5. Are self-directed physician-general surgeons in their
continuing surgical education.
6. Can be effective and efficient administrators of a health
care unit.
7. Can conduct surgical health researches.
8. Can be medical-surgical teachers.
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TUTORIALS IN GENERAL SURGERY
DESIGN OF THE SURGICAL CURRICULUM
The curriculum of the TUTORIALS IN GENERAL SURGERY is
designed according to the following guidelines:
1. Philosophy-vision-mission-goal of the faculty.
2. Community-based learning approach.
3. Problem-based learning approach.
4. Competency-based learning approach.
5. Distance education mode of teaching and learning
especially when students are in the community away from
the faculty.
6. The selection of content will be on the basis of
importance ("must know") and relevance to being a
physician-general surgeon and to being a solver of the
surgical health problems of the community.
7. The organization of the content will be structured:
7.1 From general to specific.
7.2 From simple to complex.
7.3 From basic to advanced.
7.4 Based on prioritization of importance and
relevance.
7.5 Based on rational sequence.
8. The overall design of the instruction is such that it
starts from an overview, framework, progressing to
foundation, development, and ending in mastery.
9. Integrated approach.
10. Self-directed learning will be promoted through a
problem-based learning approach, self-instructional
programs, and independent study.
11. Emphasis on active learning activities such as group
discussions, direct patient and community contacts,
practicum, and projects as modes of teaching and learning.
12. Avoidance of lectures as a primary mode of teaching and
learning.
13. Preparation of students for the Philippine Board of
Surgery examination.
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TUTORIALS IN GENERAL SURGERY
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course, the graduate should be able to:
COGNITIVE
1. Solve the surgical health problems of his community.
2. Pass the Philippine Board of Surgery examination.
3. Diagnose in an effective, efficient, and humane manner
the surgical health problems of a patient and a
community.
4. Conduct diagnostic procedures in an effective, efficient,
and humane manner in the investigations of a patient and
a community.
5. Treat effectively, efficiently, and humanely the
surgical health problems of a patient and a community.
6. Educate properly patients and the community regarding
recognition, causation, treatment, prevention, and
rehabilitation of surgical diseases and health problems.
7. Conduct surgical health researches.
8. Manage effectively and efficiently a health care unit.
9. Teach effective, efficient, and humane medicine to future
surgical students.
10. Do proper medical recording.
PSYCHOMOTOR
1. Perform gentle, safe, and accurate physical examinations
of patients.
2. Perform accurately basic life support procedures.
3. Perform properly invasive diagnostic procedures.
4. Perform properly life-saving surgical procedures.
5. Perform properly surgical treatment procedures.
6. Administer parenteral medications.
7. Write proper and legible prescriptions.
8. Communicate properly with patients, community leaders,
and colleagues.
9. Present properly in medical conferences.
10. Construct proper audio-visual aids.
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TUTORIALS IN GENERAL SURGERY
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
AFFECTIVE
1. Assume responsibility for the solution of the surgical
health problems in a community where he resides or is
assigned to.
2. Initiate projects that will help solve the surgical
health problems in the community where he resides.
3. Utilize effectively and efficiently whatever scarce
resources that are available to solve the surgical health
problems of the community.
4. Utilize primary health care approaches in the solution of
the surgical health problems in the community.
5. Accept his limitations in the practice of the surgical
profession.
6. Continually strive for excellence in surgical education,
research, and service.
7. Set example of an effective, efficient, and humane
physician-general surgeon; a physician-surgeon-
administrator; a physician-surgeon-researcher; and a
physician-surgeon-educator.
8. Show respect for human life and the human being (patient).
9. Show respect to colleagues in the medical and surgical
profession.
10. Show respect to authority.
CONTENT
* DETERMINED BY THE INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES.
* SEE LIST OF COURSES AND MODULES.
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TUTORIALS IN GENERAL SURGERY
LEARNING STRATEGIES/APPROACHES/ACTIVITIES/RESOURCES
ACTIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES
SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Community-based learning
Competency-based learning
Problem-based learning
Group discussions
Lecturettes
Independent studies
Demonstration and return demonstration
Simulated learning
Actual/direct patient contact/learning
Actual/direct community contact/learning
Tasks/projects
Hand-outs
Self-instructional programs
EVALUATION
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION
ORAL EXAMINATION
WRITTEN EXAMINATION
OUTCOME OF TASKS/PROJECTS
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