Care for Victims of Urban Violence and the Education of Trauma and Critical Care Surgeons

Abstract

This article reviews the current status of trauma care education and its relationship to critical care education. The critical linkage of both of these endeavors with urban hospitals oriented to indigent care is stressed. Within the specialty of surgery, the recent progress toward resolution of conflicts that have threatened trauma and critical care education programs is reviewed. The partnership between the trauma programs of urban hospitals will be strengthened by this resolution.

Perceptions and Attitudes of Critical Care Training and Careers among United States Surgical Residents: Who Wants to be a Surgical Intensivist?

“…Flint and Carrico reported on the changes that were needed to improve the quality and attractiveness of SCC fellowships. 11 These changes were intended to provide greater flexibility in the organization and conduct of fellowships, and to increase the amount of trauma and general surgical operative time permitted without detracting from the critical care experience. We have a number of suggestions to further increase the desirability of SCC fellowships.…”

Acute Care Surgery Survey

“…At the same time, trauma leadership, including the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and the AAST, believed that trauma care was so integral to general surgery that additional certification in trauma care was inappropriate. 7 The ABS believed that a Certificate of Added Qualifications in SCC would allow surgeons interested in taking leadership roles in the ICU to do so but that, in general, surgeons should con- tinue to manage their patients in the ICU without the need for additional certification. Recruitment into these fellowships was difficult, in part, because they were nonoperative.…”