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The entire AAST-accredited Acute Care Surgery year of the Emory Acute Care and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship is spent at Grady Memorial Hospital, where fellows lead a busy trauma and emergency general surgery service.
As Atlanta's only American College of Surgeons' nationally-verified Level I trauma center, Grady is the essential medical caretaker of the city and its premier trauma institution, serving as a public safety net hospital with 950 beds. Grady has more than 150,000 ED visits, 10,000 trauma evaluations, and 5,000 trauma admissions annually. Fellows are exposed to high volumes of both blunt and penetrating trauma (30%) with significant operative trauma (30-35%) along with acute care surgery cases.
Fellows spend eight months on the acute care surgery service, which include rotations on the fellow ward services and the hospital's Marcus Trauma Center, with call taken throughout the month. The remaining four months are dedicated to orthopedics, vascular, cardiothoracic, and physical medicine & rehabilitation rotations with trauma call taken during those months as well.
Fellows work closely with fellowship-trained Trauma/Acute Care Surgery faculty to manage surgical patients in the trauma bay, operating room, on the floors, and in clinic. Fellows also learn management of complex trauma and acute care surgery cases as well as advanced trauma skills including resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) and massive resuscitation protocols.