SCC and ACS Fellowship – Benefits

The program offers a number of educational benefits.

  • ASSET course (SCC year)
  • ATOM course (ACS year)
  • Advance Trauma Life Support Director Course
  • Fundamental Critical Care Support Course Director training
  • Travel support to an educationally appropriate national meeting during which fellows are presenting research (podium)
  • Travel support to annually attend one conference for networking/educational benefit with a focus on SCC for the first year and Trauma/ACS the second year (i.e. Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), American Association of Trauma (AAST), Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST)
  • International Rotation in South Africa
  • Opportunity for mission trip to Honduras
  • Opportunity for international trip to teach FCCS (2nd year fellow recently taught with TMD in Rawanda).
  • Advanced trauma and surgical critical care training, including:
    • ECMO: (the TACS division provides ECMO for all adult surgical patients, fellows will become facile with cannulation and management)
    • Thromobelastography
    • Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta

Additional Benefits

ACS Fellows are employed as Instructor in Surgery within the department of surgery, and receive full Brody School of Medicine benefits (Supplemental benefits are available for Clinical Faculty). Salary is 1.5 x the PGY-7 rate. Fellows are thus able, within the guidelines of the policy governing supervision, to function autonomously.

Leadership Pathways

We aspire to train future leaders in acute care surgery, and work to create leadership pathways that correspond to specific interests of individual fellows. As an example, for aspiring trauma directors, the following opportunities exist:

  • Attendance at trauma center administrative meetings with the trauma medical director
  • Participation in the trauma center Performance Improvement Program
  • Trauma system outreach visits
  • Attendance at North Carolina Committee on Trauma (COT) meetings
  • Membership on North Carolina COT subcommittees
  • Participation in state of NC and ACS trauma center verifications visits
  • Rural Trauma Team Development Course
  • Attendance at regional trauma system meetings

Similar pathways are possible for future directors of surgical critical care and emergency general surgery.