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Surgical Critical Care Faculty Conferences are led by the attending of the week and cover various critical care topics:

Surgical Critical Care Journal Club

• Hemodynamic Resuscitation
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Advanced Ventilator Management
• Surgical Nutrition
• Delirium
• Many others

Surgical Critical Care Research

• 1^st Wednesday of the month
• Research project formulation
• Presentation rehearsal for upcoming meetings
• Longitudinal tracking of Department Projects

Surgical Critical Care M&M

• Team discussion of Cases
• Mortality Determination
  • Preventable
  • Potentially Preventable
  • Non-Preventable

Surgical Critical Care Grand Rounds

• Monthly Presentation by the fellows
• Hone presentation skills
• Gain vital expertise on a given topic

Surgical Critical Care and Critical Care Medicine Joint Conference

• Case presentations
• Interdisciplinary discussion

Evidence Based Medicine Conference

• Last Wednesday of the Month
• Presentation of Guidelines Updated of Created by residents, fellows, pharmacists, etc.
• Posted on www.surgicalcriticalcare.net
• Fellowship Requirement of 6 guidelines updated or created during the academic year

Professional Development 

• Administration
• Legal Issues
• ICU Direction
• Billing and Coding
• Hospice Care
• Practice management
• Quality Initiatives
  • Trauma Quality Committee
  • Active Participation of fellows in our TQM process
    • Monthly
• Burn/Trauma ICU Quality Triad
  • Multidisciplinary Unit Team
  • ICU Director, Nursing operations Manager
  • ICU Fellows
  • Nursing, RT, Pharmacy, Nutrition representatives
  • THIS Team determines Unit operations and improvement
• GEMBA Concept