The Unit

Description

700 bed hospital, 1400 trauma admissions/year (80% blunt, 20% penetrating)

Research Activities

Trauma and Burn research

Fellowship Program

Clinical Responsibilities

The program is committed to train surgeons in academic careers in surgical critical care and trauma. It includes experience in the Burn Center with optional rotations in the Pediatric ICU. Fellows learn critical care patient management, research and administration. All previous fellows have accepted academic positions. 

Research Opportunities

Basic: Immune dysfunction with trauma, role of macrophage in Immune Regulation and Burn Wound management with cultured skin.
Clinical: Medical informatics, databases, outcomes and ICU survival investigations. 

Certifications

RRC Critical Care

Salary

Commensurate with PGY level. 

Applicant Requirements

Three years of general surgery residency

Contact

Edmund Rutherford, MD

Dept of Surgery, CB# 7210
UNC School of Medicine
Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599-7210
United States

Phone: 919 966 4389
Fax: 919 966 0369

Sep 26, 2006