Resident Training

At certain PGY levels, general surgery residents rotate through the Trauma Center and the Burn Unit, with the latter service providing residents the opportunity to participate in the assessment and resuscitation of burn patients, burn wound management, skin grafting, reconstruction, and long-term follow-up care. General surgery, emergency medicine, and oral surgery residents also rotate as PGY-2s on the SICU. Daily rounds in the Trauma Center and the SICU are conducted with the attending surgeon and the current trauma fellow or surgical critical care resident.

Trauma Fellowship/Surgical Critical Care Residency

The division also offers a two-year trauma fellowship/surgical critical care residency that accepts two board-eligible surgeons per year. Effective 10/22/09, the ACGME continued the surgical critical care residency's accreditation to 10/2014. Unlike most programs of this type, the first year of the program is spent on the Trauma Service and involves operative trauma including acute general surgery. Comprehensive care of the injured patient is a major focus, with fellows covering the resuscitation bay, operating room, clinic and postoperative care. In addition to abdominal injuries, members of the Trauma Service manage all acute vascular and thoracic injuries. Elective cases include restoration of GI continuity and abdominal wall reconstruction. Biostatistics training is also available.

The surgical critical care residency encompasses nine months of ICU rotations. Electives available during both years include (but are not limited to) Burn ICU, MICU, Echocardiography, Interventional Radiology, and traveling rotations.

All faculty are certified by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery and have added qualifications in surgical critical care. Broad opportunities are available for clinical research. The fellowship strongly supports attendance and presentations at national meetings. All of our fellows have excelled academically, with a 100% first time pass rate on the Surgical Critical Care board examination.

Fellowship Inquiries:

Grace S. Rozycki, MD
Director, Trauma Fellowship
Director, Surgical Critical Care Residency
Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
Glenn Memorial Building, Room 302
69 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
404.616.3553

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