| Fellowship Type: |
Surgical Critical Care/Trauma |
| Description: |
The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship program at Cooper University Hospital has been active since 1985, training a wide range of both community and academic trauma surgeons and surgical intensivists. The fellowship is a one-year program which supports three fellows.
Cooper University Hospital is located in Camden, NJ, and serves as the only Level 1 Adult Trauma Center for Southern New Jersey (a catchment area of approximately 2.5 million people). With approximately 3500 annual admissions to the service, Cooper is also South Jersey’s major tertiary referral center for trauma, critical care, and acute care surgery.
Additionally, Cooper University Hospital is one of only two ACS verified Level 2 Pediatric Trauma Centers in the state: greater than 10% of our admissions are under 15 years of age. There is a six bed dedicated PICU and dedicated pediatric critical care physicians assisting in the management of those patients, though primary responsibility for surgical and medical patient management decisions remains with the trauma team.
The fellowship is designed to provide strong education and training in both surgical critical care and trauma, with broad patient exposure in both areas. Approximately 65% of the admissions to our 16 bed ICU are trauma-related, and the remainder are an assortment of patients from vascular, oncology, head and neck, colorectal and other surgical specialties – representing the most critically ill patients admitted to Cooper. A strong Medical Critical Care Program provides opportunity for multidisciplinary education.
The majority of educational opportunities take place at the bedside: eight months will be spent in the trauma/surgical ICU, with rotations in the medical ICU and on directed trauma resuscitation. Additionally, customized electives will be available to suit the Fellow’s interests.
The Fellows take in-house call as a member of the Trauma and ICU team, as do the Trauma/Surgical Critical Care Faculty. Fellows engage actively in the operative care of trauma patients, and perform bedside procedures/operations in the Trauma/Surgical ICU as are indicated.
Additionally, the Fellows are expected to develop as educators, participating in the instruction of junior residents and medical students. The Fellows will be encouraged and enabled to become certified as instructors for ATLS, which is taught on campus ten times throughout the year. Should the fellow show particular interest in surgical education, there are opportunities to become in involved in senior medical student surgical anatomy electives.
Fellows are expected to participate in research activities during their time at Cooper. Our clinical research section, under the lead of Joshua Hazelton DO, FACS, Director of Trauma Research, is very active, and there is opportunity for animal laboratory research. Dedicated research time is made available on an individual basis to those residents who wish to further their own scientific investigations.
How to apply -
Please contact Orlando-karen@cooperhealth.edu – (856)963-3985 (phone), (856) 365-7582 (fax) – for more information, or please visit our website at http://www.cooperhealth.edu/fellowships/surgical-critical-care.
Qualifications:
All PGY-5 surgical residents who will complete their general surgical residency and are board eligible by June 30th are welcome to apply. Those surgical residents that have completed three years of surgical residency by June 30th, who are in a categorical surgical residency program expected to complete the program are also eligible to apply.
About the hospital:
Beds: 554
ICU beds: 64
Annual ED visits: 65000
Annual trauma admission: 3500
Trauma faculty: 10 |