Residents will be able to evaluate, diagnose, and perform the initial management of trauma and acute care surgery patients. Residents will participate in the trauma resuscitations and initial evaluation and treatment of the traumatized and acute care surgery patients with graded responsibilities to help improve the skills needed for early resuscitation. Residents will demonstrate knowledge and skills in the principles of pre-op assessments, operative intervention, and follow-up in patients presenting with a wide variety of surgical disease. Residents will be able to identify the principles of resuscitation, rapid diagnosis, interpretation of clinical findings, laboratory values, and radiologic results in the emergency room setting.