Dr. Susan M. Anderson This is Me

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1. 1. Medical How To - All News and Articles

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   Published on: 11/10/2006   Last Visited: 11/10/2006

   USD Names Susan Anderson Medical Director Of University Physicians

2. 2. Press & Dakotan - Suturing Still Important Part Of Medical Profession 11/20/03

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   Published on: 11/20/2003   Last Visited: 11/20/2003

   "By teaching others, upperclassmen and residents can keep up on their technique," said Dr. Susan Anderson, director of Introduction to Medicine at the University of South Dakota Medical School in Sioux Falls.
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   "They also need to practice, to fine-tune their skills -- even doctors out of school need to continue practicing suturing, especially if they don't do it all the time like surgeons," Anderson said.
   
   Suturing is more complicated than many people realize. There are different types of stitching, and some lacerations require layers of sutures.
   
   "Students not only need to learn how to drive the needle through the skin but also how to knot," Anderson said.
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   "Skin glue is good for kids, because it avoids an injection to numb the area, but it can't be used for lacerations that are really long or with jagged edges," Anderson said.
   
   First- and second-year students study in Vermillion, and third- and fourth-years spend the remainder of their medical school in either Sioux Falls, Yankton or Rapid City.
   
   Formal instruction in suturing is done in the second year of medical school, "but students are introduced to suturing in the first year, along with other basics of the practice of medicine," Anderson said.
   
   First-year medical students are shown how to suture, but they aren't required to learn how to suture in their classes until their second year. Upperclassmen also continue to learn suturing during clinical rotations, during which students shadow a doctor in various medical departments, such as family practice, OB/GYN and surgery.
   
   When possible, the student performs various procedures including suturing. This instruction is done on a one-on-one basis, and med students usually learn more quickly because their practice is done on actual patients, Anderson said.
   
   First-year through fourth-year students can also practice their suturing skills during supplemental instruction in a study group environment. Anderson leads a series of procedure nights, where interested students voluntarily practice different medical procedures.
   
   "These nights are a good way for students to practice what they learned and to improve on a procedure that they might have a hard time picking up," she said. "First years are also invited, and they can get a head start on their second-year classes."
   
   Medical procedures are taught through classes, but "it's the luck of the draw for students to actually get to do it themselves. The opportunity doesn't always present itself," Anderson said.

3. 3. University Physicians Clinics

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   Published on: 4/6/2007   Last Visited: 4/6/2007

   Susan Anderson, MD University Physicians Clinics
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   Susan M. Anderson, M.D. Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, USD School of Medicine