Trauma Service Curriculum

The Trauma Service consists of PGY4, PGY3 and PGY1 residents. The chief of the service is the PG4.

The objectives for the service are:

• Basic and advanced resuscitation techniques using ATLS protocol methods
• Wound care management in the trauma room and acute care settings
• Basic surgical skills involving incision, wound closures, handling of tissues and selection/use of operating instruments.
• Advanced surgical skills involving emergent laparotomy, thoracotomy, and surgical airway techniques
• Anatomy, physiology, and pathology of all systems affected by traumatic injury, including the functional evaluation of:
  • central nervous system
  • cardiovascular system
  • pulmonary system
  • gastrointestinal system
  • extremity function
  • nutritional status
• Principles of the critical care management of the trauma patient
• Acute management of extremity injury, including need for casts, splints, and traction
• Rehabilitative issues in the early care of the traumatically injured as well as indications for, and the provision of, nutritional support for patients traumatically injured