Acute Care Surgery Committee Annual Report

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Acute Care Surgery CommitteeAnnual Report

• AAST Membership
• September 28, 2007
• Las Vegas

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Members (all appointed to 2009)

• Gregory J. Jurkovich, M.D., Chair
• Michael F. Rotondo, M.D., Vice Chair ?
• L.D. Britt, M.D., M.P.H.
• Christopher T. Born, M.D.
• William G. Cioffi, M.D.
• Thomas J. Esposito, M.D., M.P.H. ?
• Richard L. Gamelli, M.D., M.P.H.
• David B. Hoyt, M.D.

• Robert C. Mackersie, M.D.
• Mark A. Malangoni, M.D.
• Ronald V. Maier, M.D.
• J. Wayne Meredith, M.D.
• E. Eugene Moore, M.D.
• Lena M. Napolitano, M.D.
• Grace S. Rozycki, M.D.
• Thomas M. Scalea, M.D.
• David A. Spain, M.D.
• Joseph J. Tepas, II, M.D.
• Alex B. Valadka, M.D.

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Agenda

• Curriculum work group Rotondo Jurkovich
• Site selection work group Hoyt Jurkovich
• Competency work group Rozycki Malangoni
• Resident fellow outreach Dicker Staudenmayer
  (consultants)

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Other Personnel

• Kim Anderson Schenarts PhD
• Educational Consultant
• Advise us on content, format, consistency of
  approach, pedagogical framework
• Sharon Gautschy
• Executive Director, AAST

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AAST Retreat Work Product

• By 2008
• Have available Program Requirements
• Have available Program Application Forms
• Have finalized Program Curriculum
• Have finalized Program Evaluation criteria.
• Have received applications for the first training
  program in Acute Care Surgery
• John Fildes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Have site visited all sites who have had
  applications submitted by December 31, 2007.

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AAST Retreat Work Product

• By 2009
• Have site visited all applications for program
  training sites submitted by December 31, 2008.
• Have established methods to evaluate efficacy of
  various training sites options.
• Have established a method of addressing the needs
  of surgeons practicing Acute Care Surgery who
  have not completed a fellowship (Grandfathering
  process).
• Have incorporated the results of the branding and
  imaging initiatives of the AAST with the Acute
  Care Surgery fellowship program.

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AAST Retreat Work Product

• By December 31, 2010
• Have reconciled with the RRC the incorporation of
  Surgical Critical Care training within the two
  year Acute Care Surgery training program.
• Have established effective tools for site visit
  evaluations
• Have established effective data entry and
  retrieval tools for analyzing the effect of Acute
  Care Surgery training on providing emergency
  surgical care across the United States.

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Other deliberations actions

• Advertising promotion budget and plan
• Fellow and program evaluation tools
• Acute Care Surgery examination
• the match issues
• Further discussions on how to emphasize trauma
  part of Acute Care Surgery
• Further discussions on RRC-application for the
  fellowship
• Many others -- help appreciated!

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Acute Care Surgery

• Trauma Surgery
• Emergency General Surgery
• Surgical Critical Care