CRIT5019: Advanced Trauma Management

CRIT5019 builds on the foundations laid in Major Trauma Management. The unit of study is based on trauma cases, with actual dilemmas and clinical pearls. It will prepare clinicians for a middle-grade to senior role in a trauma service. It is also widely relevant to any frontline doctor who sees trauma patients in all settings: metropolitan, regional, rural and remote. It explores the resuscitative, surgical, medical, psychosocial, and system-related issues in advanced trauma care. During this unit, there is a two-day face-to-face intensive in the state-of-the-art simulation lab in the Susan Wakil Health building on the Camperdown campus. This provides a unique opportunity to bolster the participant's confidence and competence in complex trauma resuscitation through intensive mentorship from senior trauma clinicians using immersive simulation, including virtual reality (VR), and is supported by a team including the FMH Media lab, a professional actor, the Institute of Academic Surgery at RPA, and others. Participants can connect with peers from surgery and critical care and share their expertise, and will have the opportunity to try out innovative new trauma education research projects if they wish. Participant feedback in 2024 noted the wide applicability of this intensive to all frontline doctors and that this unit is "better than other short courses and covers the best evidence base and gold standard of trauma care ". The workshop is compulsory. CRIT5016 is a prerequisite. Enrolments are capped at 30.