trauma and critical care fellowships

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I'm thinking of doing it. I'm a senior resident. Some think I'm nuts but I like it. What opinion do you have? I wouldn't mind just being in one hospital and getting a salary, having my malpractice covered.

I'm thinking of the following fellowships: Shock trauma, Johns Hopkins, Miami, Hartford Conneticut, USC, Las Vegas. What would be peoples choices and ranking?

Thank you

 

[Pilot Doc]

I wouldn't mind just being in one hospital and getting a salary, having my malpractice covered.

There are lots of those jobs for straight general surgery.

And if that's what you're shooting for, and TCC fellowship will do fine.

 

[Colbert]

Not trying to high-jack the thread, but I'm interested in this as a future career path (MS-III, planning on applying GSurg), however I have heard trauma surgery is "a lot of babysitting." I haven't done a trauma rotation, so I was hoping someone could comment on what a day in the life of a trauma surgeon is really like.

 

[plauto]

in my hospital (level 1 trauma center in a major NE city), they are on shift and when there is no trauma going on they are on Gen surg call

 

[Pilot Doc]

Not trying to high-jack the thread, but I'm interested in this as a future career path (MS-III, planning on applying GSurg), however I have heard trauma surgery is "a lot of babysitting." I haven't done a trauma rotation, so I was hoping someone could comment on what a day in the life of a trauma surgeon is really like.

A search will yield mannnnnnny threads on this, but here's the synopsis.

1) Most trauma is blunt (car wrecks) rather than penetrating (bullets, knives)
2) Blunt trauma is almost entirely non-operative. Many blunt trauma patients require the services of ortho or neurosurgery, who generally will not take them as primary patients. Hence you manage these patients and have to find them a nursing home on discharge while ortho does all the operating.
3) Trauma victims are disproportionately injured because they made poor choices, frequently very poor choices and often make the lives (and deaths) of those around them much harder. It's an emotionally challenging population. My favorite personal quote from a fresh gunshot wound rolling to the ER: "Don't cut my clothes off! Don't cut my clothes off! Every time I get shot you cut my clothes off!"

 

[Winged Scapula]

My favorite personal quote from a fresh gunshot wound rolling to the ER: "Don't cut my clothes off! Don't cut my clothes off! Every time I get shot you cut my clothes off!"

My favorite was something along the lines of "don't cut through my new tattoo" for his ex-lap.

 

[MossPoh]

Tats are expensive! 😛

I honestly don't know if I could contain my laughter after the "every time I get shot" line. I'm sure he was minding his business when he got shot each time as well. Helping an old lady across the street or handing out food at the homeless shelter most likely.

 

[SocialistMD]

Tats are expensive! 😛

I honestly don't know if I could contain my laughter after the "every time I get shot" line. I'm sure he was minding his business when he got shot each time as well. Helping an old lady across the street or handing out food at the homeless shelter most likely.

Actually, most of our patients here in the midwest are reading their Bibles on the porch. Interestingly, I found out that is mostly true a few months ago. A paramedic brought a patient in who was "reading his Bible on his porch" when he was shot. The paramedic confirmed that he found an open Bible on the patient's porch-the inside had been cut out to hold his drug paraphernalia.

 

[45408]

My favorite personal quote from a fresh gunshot wound rolling to the ER: "Don't cut my clothes off! Don't cut my clothes off! Every time I get shot you cut my clothes off!"

Awesome. Just made that my facebook status.