Penn Acute Care Education (PACE)

Penn Acute Care Education (PACE) seeks to provide multidisciplinary education in the fields of surgery, trauma, critical care, and disaster and emergency management.

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) is an American College of Surgeons (ACS) course designed to educate providers (physicians, fellows, residents, and advanced practice providers) who provide care for the injured patient.

The Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) Course is a course from the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN) designed to educate nurses on synchronized approaches to care of the trauma patient.

The Advanced Trauma Operative Management (ATOM) Course is an American College of Surgeons (ACS) Course for senior surgical residents, surgical fellows, and attending surgeons combining didactic and real porcine operative environment learning experiences.

The Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET) course is an American College of Surgeons (ACS) course for mid-level and senior surgical residents, trauma and acute care surgical fellows, and any surgeon who wishes a review of this anatomy. The course combines case-based educational models with a real operative experience on human cadavers.

The Disaster Management and Emergency Preparedness (DMEP) Course is an American College of Surgeons (ACS) interdisciplinary course for physicians, nurses, advanced practitioners, and pre-hospital personnel addressing concepts in disaster planning, triage, incident command, injury patterns, pathophysiology, and consideration for special populations.

PACE offers educational courses, workshops, and conferences for prehospital providers in Emergency Medical Services. This includes EMTs, paramedics, and PHRNs. CEUs are available for most offerings.

The Fundamentals of Critical Care Support (FCCS) Course is an interdisciplinary Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) course designed to educate physicians, residents, fellows, nurses, and advanced practitioners on critical care concepts, decision-making guidelines, and fundamental management of critical care patients.

The Rural Trauma Team Development Course (RTTDC) is an American College of Surgeons (ACS) Course. An interdisciplinary group of practicing clinicians from the Trauma Center at Penn will deliver this program to multidisciplinary groups of clinicians at non-trauma centers in order to educate participants on team approaches to the assessment, resuscitation, and transfer of the trauma patient.

The STOP THE BLEED® course is an American College of Surgeons (ACS) program that teaches life-saving bleeding control techniques using direct pressure, wound packing, and tourniquets.

REBOA (Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta) training for physicians is available through PACE.

Conferences are offered annually, to unite national and regional experts and provide education related to contemporary issues in trauma and critical care practice.

Online webinars provided by Penn Medicine Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care & Emergency Surgery faculty.

We host several workshops offering education to providers related to suturing technique, performing ultrasound and FAST exams, coping with second trauma symptoms, and interpreting CT scans of the head, chest, and abdomen/pelvis.