Program Overview

Program Overview

The University of Chicago’s trauma fellowship is dedicated to training the next generation of trauma surgeons who are interested in gaining robust operative experience, providing comprehensive and advanced care to the critically injured patient, and pursuing academic and scholarly interests.

Program Structure

Fellows will be expected to lead a busy clinical service, participate in multidisciplinary rounds, attend outpatient clinics, and perform surgical cases with the primary trauma faculty. The fellows will also have the opportunity to care for emergency general surgery patients in addition to trauma patients. They will also participate in educational conferences, morbidity and mortality, peer review, and quality improvement. The fellow will be expected to take call alongside the primary trauma faculty. On average, the fellow will be assigned to 1-2 service weeks per month, 2 weekend calls, and 2-4 overnight calls for the remainder of the month.

Clinical Training

Each fellow will receive a vigorous clinical training in which they will lead a multidisciplinary team caring for the acutely injured and critically ill patient. They will be exposed to a high-volume of operative trauma, with the majority of cases resulting from the management of penetrating injury due to gun-violence. They will also be exposed to a complex range of health care issues and fulfill the section’s social justice mission through trauma-informed care.

Research Opportunities

In addition to gaining in-depth clinical knowledge and technical skills, fellows will have the opportunity to work and collaborate with multiple academic departments across the University of Chicago’s campus. The trauma fellows will be expected to contribute their own research projects to the broader knowledge and understanding of trauma care.

Our Medical Center

Our comprehensive training program is set on an expanding clinical campus that starts right across the street from the main quadrangle of the University of Chicago. The University of Chicago Medicine began providing adult trauma care on May 1, 2018; the adult trauma program adds to UChicago Medicine's pediatric trauma and burn services, providing the community with a comprehensive system of care to treat the full range of trauma injuries in patients of all ages.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Section of Trauma at the University of Chicago Department of Surgery is the most culturally diverse section in the department. Serving a patient population on the South Side of Chicago that is disproportionately affected by structural racism, poverty, and disparities in care, we are determined to recruit fellows and future contributors to the field who understand the sociocultural nature of the trauma with which patients present.

Meet the Fellows

• Trauma Fellow
  • Michael Poulson, MD, MPH, MA Dr. Michael Poulson graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS in Neuroscience. He then attended Loyola University - Chicago to obtain his MA in Medical Sciences and Harvard University for his Master of Public Health. Dr. Poulson received his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed his General Surgery Residency at Boston University - Boston Medical Center and his Adult Surgical Critical Care Fellowship here at the University of Chicago Medicine.
• Previous Fellows
  • Years | Name
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    • | Toba Bolaji, DO
    • | Patience Green, MD
    • | Daniel Murphy, MD
    • | Roxanne McMillan, MD
    • | Fumitaka Saida, MD

Accreditation

This fellowship is not accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Fellows who successfully complete the training program will receive a diploma and certificate documenting their advanced training.