In a trauma surgery fellowship you will spend your nights pulling bullets out of drug dealers and putting their innards back together. You will spend your days managing their ICU care and taking them back to the OR for followup surgery (delayed closures, vac sponge changes, ex lap to look for an abscess, that sort of thing).
Surgical critical care is spent in the ICU and not the OR.
Sports medicine is typically done after an orthopedic residency. General surgeons spend most of their time in the belly, not dealing with much related to sports. You’d be at a serious disadvantage, if you could even get a spot.
I am by no means an expert, but I believe Trauma Surgery would be the surgery for trauma etc (obvious definition but I’m sure you know that all anyway) and Surgical Critical Care is more concerned with the critical care of post-surgery patients, ie more physician based than surgery.
You may need to get board-certified as a Sports Medicine Physician before starting a fellowship, in answer to the second question.
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Golden
November 9th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
the amount of torture you inflict on people is much more intense in the surgery deparment
Pangolin
November 9th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
In a trauma surgery fellowship you will spend your nights pulling bullets out of drug dealers and putting their innards back together. You will spend your days managing their ICU care and taking them back to the OR for followup surgery (delayed closures, vac sponge changes, ex lap to look for an abscess, that sort of thing).
Surgical critical care is spent in the ICU and not the OR.
Sports medicine is typically done after an orthopedic residency. General surgeons spend most of their time in the belly, not dealing with much related to sports. You’d be at a serious disadvantage, if you could even get a spot.
David
November 9th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
I am by no means an expert, but I believe Trauma Surgery would be the surgery for trauma etc (obvious definition but I’m sure you know that all anyway) and Surgical Critical Care is more concerned with the critical care of post-surgery patients, ie more physician based than surgery.
You may need to get board-certified as a Sports Medicine Physician before starting a fellowship, in answer to the second question.
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