Trauma Service Conferences

Trauma Service Conferences

Didactic Curriculum

A variety of mandatory didactic conferences are scheduled each week, including:

-Daily trauma rounds with the Trauma Attending and Trauma Chief Resident

• During rounds, the residents will be expected to know their patients’ clinical and laboratory status as well as the basic science associated with these findings.

-Trauma / Surgical Critical Care Joint Rounds (Tuesday1:00pm)

• The Trauma Service and the SICU Service will have joint bedside rounds on critically ill trauma patients.
• Emphasis will be on trauma injuries and physiologic sequelae.
• Non-trauma patients will be seen with the Primary Services in a similar format if requested.

-Basic Science, Morbidity & Mortality, and Grand Rounds Conferences (Wednesday 6:00 – 9:00 am)

-Trauma / Critical Care Conference (Wednesday noon)

-Surgical ICU Multidisciplinary Meeting (Thursday 8:00am)

-Burn Conference (Thursday noon)

-Clinical Review Conference (Friday noon)

Current conferences include:

Trauma / Surgical Critical Care Joint Rounds: Bedside rounding on trauma patients admitted to the SICU with the combined Trauma Service and Surgical Critical Care Service. These will be more of a teaching format and less of a “work rounds” format. The goal is to have the Trauma Service more involved with the care of critically ill trauma patients in the SICU. Non-trauma patients will be rounded on separately with the General or Surgical Subspecialty Services when requested.

Trauma / Critical Care Conference: Conference consists of lecture / didactic reviews of trauma and critical care subjects. The General Surgery Program Director and the Program Administrator in conjunction with the Trauma Chief Resident will assign the major topic. The Trauma Chief Resident and the junior residents will be responsible for the preparing the content of the conferences. The Trauma Chief Resident should review the junior resident’s talk prior to the presentation. The Trauma Chief Resident will be prepared to lecture if an emergency occurs where the scheduled lecturer is unavailable to present. Mid-Level Providers will also be available to fill in on an emergency basis. The Trauma and Surgical Critical Care staff will be the moderators for the conference.

Surgical ICU Multidisciplinary Meeting: A systematic review of all critically ill patients in the SICU will be performed with all service providers giving input toward optimal patient care. Junior residents assigned in the SICU will be responsible for the content of the conferences. The SICU Attending will have final say in the care plan. The Trauma Chief Resident will be welcome to provide input if they are not rounding with the Trauma Attending on the outlying ICU patients.