Trauma Education

As a level I trauma center, Orlando Health ORMC offers the highest level of care for critically injured or ill patients of all ages while also providing leadership in prevention, public education and continuing education. We are proud of our extraordinary efforts in education, leading to being named a Top Teaching Hospital from the patient safety advocates at The Leapfrog Group.

Our education opportunities include:

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)

Developed by the American College of Surgeons, ATLS provides a systematic, evidence-based approach to the early management of trauma patients. Course options include the ATLS Student Course for first-time learners, the ATLS Student Refresher Course for those renewing certification, and the ATLS Instructor Course for providers who meet eligibility requirements and wish to teach the program.

Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN)

An advanced course for registered nurses that pairs ATLS content with hands-on skill stations, focusing on the care of patients with multiple trauma. The course emphasizes scenario-based training and team-centered application of trauma principles.

Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC)

Designed for nurses, this course establishes a standardized body of trauma nursing knowledge to enhance the care of trauma patients. It includes rapid identification of life-threatening injuries, comprehensive patient assessment and enhanced intervention for better patient outcomes.

Trauma Care after Resuscitation (TCAR)

The TCAR course is designed for bedside professionals who care for trauma patients in critical care, perioperative, acute care and rehabilitation settings. The course gives inpatient staff members the essential knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to meet provide excellent care as well as meet ACS and regulatory requirements.

Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET)

Held in our dedicated Simulation Center, the ASSET course teaches key anatomical exposures for the care of injured and acutely ill surgical patients. The course is designed for senior surgical residents, trauma and acute care surgeons, and military surgeons, and provides hands-on cadaver-based training in standardized, region-specific exposure techniques for major vascular and visceral structures.

Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS)

The Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) program provides knowledge for immediate care of burn patients up to the first 24 hours post-injury. ABLS programs also support emergency and mass casualty preparedness focusing on triage, burn survivability, patient transportation, and patient treatment.

Nicholas Dellamonico Trauma Conference

This leading conference provides a focused update on topics of importance to EMS experts, physicians, trauma nurses, rehabilitation specialists, pharmacists and others who provide care or have plans to provide care to trauma patients.

Stop the Bleed

Offered quarterly, the Stop the Bleed curriculum is designed for anyone who may be first on the scene of a trauma involving blood loss. Learning these bleeding control basics can help in preventing death as a person can die from blood loss within five minutes without assistance.

Graduate Medical Education

Medical education is an integral part of the mission at Orlando Health. At the Office of Graduate Medical Education, we work to provide quality structured postgraduate residency programs that facilitate professional and personal development while assuring safe and high-quality patient care. We advance the highest quality education through a combination of teaching, clinical service, safe patient care and research.

Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

Founded in 1997, our Surgical Critical Care Fellowship is ACGME accredited and has recently expanded from two to three fellow positions annually. With more than 6,000 trauma admissions and 3,000 ICU admissions annually, is the busiest level I trauma center in the third most populous state in the nation, providing abundant opportunities for advanced learning.

General Surgery Residency

The Department of Surgical Education at Orlando Health is dedicated to graduate medical education, offering a five-year, ACGME-accredited general surgery residency program as well as accredited fellowships in surgical critical care and colon and rectal surgery.

Trauma and Surgery APP Fellowship

The Trauma and Surgery APP Fellowship at Orlando Health ORMC provides exposure to complex surgical critical care to prepare APPs with the skills to be successful in delivering excellent critical care. The fellowship allows both nurse practitioners and physician assistants to develop the knowledge base to perform procedures and life-saving interventions in a high acuity patient population.

Simulation Center

Orlando Health's Simulation Center is accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. The center’s resource provide opportunities to run resuscitation and trauma scenarios. The Simulation Center is is integral to training for the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Fundamentals of Critical Care Support (FCCS), Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET) and other courses that enhance trauma care.