Meet the night team in the 7-100 resident workroom and obtain a trauma pager from the workroom.
Attend evening ICU hot rounds at 1800 for surgical and trauma ICU exposure.
Respond to all Trauma Alert Reds. Ask the chief how to be most useful during them. Be an active participant.
Participate in operative cases or bedside procedures.
Spend as much time as possible with the junior or chief resident-i.e. in the emergency room-participating in the acute evaluation and intervention of emergency surgery patients. You should follow the progress of the patient throughout their hospital experience. If the patient goes to the OR, you should scrub the case and practice writing postop orders and notes.
Assist the Blue Junior in the evaluation and workup of consults. Send notes to the Blue Junior for feedback. Cosign the nighttime attending. Utilize the “Blue Surgery History and Physical Note” for Trauma Alert Reds and Trauma Alerts.
On “slow” nights, consider helping the ICU and/or floor intern on inpatients, including rounding and responding to pages.
Refer to the UK Trauma Protocol Manual in making clinical and operational decisions.
Learn the evaluation and management of common general surgery diseases.
November 12, 2023 (A Bernard/A Nickols)
