San Francisco Injury Center provides education for members of the community and community-based organizations, as well as the next generation of professionals and researchers in the fields of trauma care and injury control through mentoring surgical residents, training through simulated-enhanced curriculum, lecturing at national and international venues and training and educational research.
The SFIC has one postdoctoral research fellow dedicated to the Center, who conducts research on his/her own individual project as well as participates in all the other activities of the center. The salary for this fellow is supported by the NIH and the fellowship is awarded to residents who will devote their careers to trauma and/or critical care surgery. This year's fellow, Natasha Bir is focused on the acute care research studies. She has already presented her work at two national conferences including the Academic Surgical Congress and the Annual Meeting of the Western Trauma Association where her paper won second place in the resident paper competition. She also participated in the regional Committee on Trauma resident paper competition.For the past three years, members of the SFIC have been teaching mid-level surgical residents trauma evaluation and initial assessment skills using a simulator-enhanced curriculum and comparing their actual performance during real resuscitations to those residents who received the same curriculum in a didactic format
Dr. Knudson's leadership in several national trauma organizations including the Western Trauma Association, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, as well as our presentations locally, nationally and internationally, allows us to quickly disseminate important research findings and to highlight our prevention activities. Dr. Knudson was selected to work at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center as part of the Senior Visiting Surgeon Program funded by AAST, ACS and the U.S. military. (See "SFGH Surgeon: Helping the Wounded in Germany".) Drs. Dicker and Cohen also lecture locally and nationally on their research and prevention activities.
Training and Educational Research
Interactive Pedestrian Game for Children - Ace's Adventure
Education in Ultrasound for Trauma Physicians in Uganda
Simulation Training for Medical Personnel to Respond to Mass Casualty Events