Trauma Surgeon

Responsibilities
1. Provide timely evaluation, resuscitation, diagnosis, and operative and nonoperative management of injured patients, including inpatient care and outpatient follow-up, consistent with clinical privileges and departmental expectations. Provide emergency general surgery and surgical critical care services as assigned and within the physician’s credentials and privileges. 2. Participate in assigned trauma, acute care surgery, and surgical critical care service and call schedules; provide prompt response to trauma activations, emergency consultations, operative emergencies, and other assigned clinical coverage in accordance with applicable service policies and departmental expectations. 3. Maintain required medical staff appointment, clinical privileges, board certification or eligibility, Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) certification, trauma-related continuing medical education, and other qualifications applicable to the trauma surgeon role and institutional requirements. 4. Provide continuity of care through timely reassessment, documentation, communication, consultation, handoffs, and coordination with emergency medicine, anesthesia, surgical subspecialties, critical care, nursing, rehabilitation, and other members of the multidisciplinary trauma team. 5. Adhere to approved Trauma Program policies, clinical practice guidelines, protocols, and standards of professional practice; identify opportunities to update guidelines and participate in their development and implementation as requested. 6. Participate actively in the Trauma Performance Improvement and Patient Safety (PIPS) Program, including case review, multidisciplinary peer review, mortality and complication review, identification of opportunities for improvement, and implementation and monitoring of corrective actions as assigned. 7. Attend trauma multidisciplinary PIPS committee meetings and other required Trauma Program meetings, maintaining the attendance and participation standards applicable to trauma surgeons. 8. Cooperate with trauma registry and quality personnel by ensuring accurate and timely clinical documentation, responding to case-review inquiries, and supporting data-driven improvement initiatives, including review of Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) findings as requested. 9. Collaborate with the Trauma Medical Director, Trauma Program Manager, specialty liaisons, hospital leadership, and prehospital providers to improve patient flow, trauma system performance, and care across the continuum from prehospital care through discharge. 10. Participate in the supervision, teaching, evaluation, and professional development of residents, medical students, advanced practice providers, nurses, and other trauma team members, consistent with assigned faculty responsibilities. 11. Contribute to trauma-related research, quality improvement projects, presentations, publications, and other scholarly activities in support of departmental goals and the Trauma Program’s Level I verification objectives. 12. Assist with preparation for trauma center verification and reverification by maintaining required credentials and education, participating in program reviews, and supporting implementation of initiatives to address identified gaps. 13. Participate in trauma injury prevention, community outreach, prehospital education, disaster preparedness, and regional trauma system activities as assigned. 14. Promote professionalism, respectful multidisciplinary communication, patient safety, ethical practice, and a culture of accountability; comply with institutional policies and medical staff bylaws. 15. Participate in departmental, hospital, and health system committees, operational initiatives, and administrative activities as requested by the Trauma Medical Director, Division Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, or Hospital Leadership. 16. Perform other clinical, educational, quality, and administrative duties as assigned by the Trauma Medical Director, Division Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, or Hospital Leadership.