TRAUMA

Residents will be able to evaluate, diagnose, and manage trauma patients with a focus on resuscitations, rapid diagnosis, interpretation of clinical findings, laboratory values, radiologic results, management of physiological problems, and suturing of simple and complex skin lacerations. Residents will learn the principles of preoperative assessment, operative intervention, and follow-up in patients with a wide variety of surgical diseases. Residents will participate in at least two outpatient clinics per week.