Learn more about education and training within the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.
Fellowships Surgical Critical Care/Acute Surgery Fellowship
The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship is designed to allow fellows to develop advanced proficiency in the care of critically ill patients and to develop the qualifications to supervise surgical critical care units. This critical care education has now been supplemented with an additional year of comprehensive surgical training to create the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Program.
The Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care (TESSCC) offers a research fellowship program providing physicians interested in research an opportunity to accumulate a solid experience in an outstanding training program.
Continuing Education
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS): Student Provider Course March 26-27, 2012
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS): Student Provider Course October 22-23, 2012
The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS): Student Provider Course is intended to provide one acceptable method for safe, immediate management and the basic knowledge necessary to assess a patient’s condition rapidly and accurately, resuscitate and stabilize the patient according to priority, determine if the patient's needs exceed a facility's capabilities, arrange appropriately for the patient’s inter-hospital or intra-hospital transfer, and assure that optimum care is provided. The ATLS student/student refresher course is offered March 26-27, 2012 and October 22-23, 2012. The cost is $1,000.
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Trauma and Critical Care Symposium
The symposium provides an ideal mix of the traditional standard-of-care principles with cutting-edge, forward-moving practices. It explores issues related to surgical technique, resuscitation, inflammation and infection, respiratory care, nutrition, prehospital care, and ethics.
