2014 Volume 34 Issue 5 Pages 981-985
We, at the Nippon Medical School Advanced Critical Care Center, have provided emergency surgeries for critically ill medical patients, and postoperative intensive care as well as trauma surgeries. The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma introduced a new surgical field“Acute Care Surgery”which consists of“Trauma Surgery,”“Emergency Surgery,”and“Surgical Critical Care,”and these are the clinical practices we have provided for a long time. In recent years, it has been difficult to train young surgeons in advanced critical care, because of the decrease in trauma operation cases and the increase in non-operative management. However, acute care surgeons who deal with trauma cases and also emergency operations for critically ill are a social necessity. It is our goal to find out the way to develop young acute care surgeons. In this paper, we introduce our training curriculum for acute care surgeons.