ISC: Injury, Repair, and Rehabilitation

School of Medicine

In the US, injuries are the leading cause of death among persons ages 1-44 years of age, which results in more deaths than non-communicable diseases and infectious diseases combined. In this course, students will be exposed to the continuum of injury, repair, and rehabilitation through the multidisciplinary viewpoints of emergency medicine, trauma surgery and associated surgical subspecialties, such as anesthesia, hematology & transfusion medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, physical & occupational therapy and speech-language pathology. Students will spend portions of their clinical experience on the trauma service supplemented by rotations through rehabilitative, recovery, and palliation settings, as well as inpatient and outpatient wound care. Didactics will focus on shock, hemostasis and thrombosis, wound healing and repair of skin and bone, nutrition, acute and chronic pain management, speech-language pathology, age and co-morbid factors, brain injury, case-based learning across the continuum from acute to long-term recovery, as well as palliative care and death. Integrated foundational sciences are anatomy, epidemiology, ethics, immunology, implementation science, neuroscience, nutrition sciences, pathology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, radiobiology, social sciences, and system sciences. Following experiential anatomic learning and practice, successful students will obtain four-year American College of Surgeons Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) certification, as well as audit the Advanced Surgical Skills Exposure for Trauma (ASSET); both courses are coordinated using the facilities of the Surgical and Anatomical Simulation (SAS) resource within the Center for Experiential Learning and Assessment (CELA). This course will serve as a prerequisite to the Advanced Clinical Experience in Trauma. Travel during the course is discouraged, as students have outstanding trauma clinical opportunities and related requirements up to 3 weekends during this intense course. Please note that late adds are not permitted for ISC: Injury, Repair, and Rehabilitation due to ATLS registration.