Trauma/Emergency Surgery Core Competencies

Patient Care

• Fellows will gather essential and accurate information about their patients
• Fellows will make informed decisions about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information, scientific evidence, and clinical judgment
• Fellows will develop and carry out patient management plans in the Emergency Department, Trauma Bay, Operating Room, ICU, and general care units
• Fellows will communicate effectively with consultants and other health care providers, leading to patient focused care
• Fellows will communicate effectively and demonstrate caring and respectful behavior when interacting with patients and families.

Medical Knowledge

• Fellows will demonstrate an investigatory and analytic thinking approach to patient care.
• Fellows will know and apply to their patients basic and clinically supportive science in relation to blunt injury, penetrating injury, and emergency surgical pathology
• Fellows will develop a working knowledge of the aspects of managing the trauma team and related personnel, while using triage concepts to stratify care to multiply injured, and multiple patients.
• Fellows will develop a working knowledge of the administrative and management aspects of running a Trauma Service.

Practice-Based Learning and Improvement

• Fellows will locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies related to trauma and emergency surgery.
• Fellows will use critical appraisal of the literature in journal club and their own readings to evaluate clinical studies as they relate to injured and critically ill surgical patients.
• Fellows will use information technology to manage patient information and support their own education.

Interpersonal and Communication Skills

• Fellows will create and sustain a therapeutic and ethically sound relationship with patients.
• Fellows will work effectively with others as leaders of the Trauma team.

Professionalism

• Fellows will demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities and adherence to ethical principles.
• Fellows will demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to patients' culture, age, gender, and disabilities.

Systems-Based Practice

• Fellows will understand how Trauma care and practices affect other health care professionals, the care organization, and the larger society.
• Fellows will practice cost-effective health care and research allocation that does not compromise quality of care.

Junior/Peer/Faculty Education

• Fellows will be committed to the education of residents, medical students, and other health care providers on the Trauma/Emergency Surgery service.
• Fellows will contribute to the ongoing education of all involved in the care of the critically-ill patient through formal lectures prepared for Trauma Multidisciplinary Conference, Trauma Division Morbidity/Mortality Conference, Journal Clubs, and other formal forums.