Burn Surgery Fellowship Curriculum
The Burn Surgery Fellowship provides comprehensive training across the full continuum of burn care, including acute resuscitation, operative burn surgery, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and longitudinal outpatient management.
Core clinical experiences include:
- Burn resuscitation and critical care
- Operative excision and grafting
- Burn wound management
- Skin substitutes and regenerative technologies
- Inhalation injury management
- Burn reconstruction and scar contracture release
- Laser scar therapy
- Multidisciplinary rehabilitation
- Outpatient burn and reconstructive follow-up
Fellows participate in daily multidisciplinary burn rounds alongside burn surgeons, advanced practice providers, therapists, pharmacists, nutritionists, nursing staff, and other members of the burn care team.
Additional structured educational experiences include:
- Monthly Burn Morbidity and Mortality Conference
- Monthly Burn Performance Improvement (PI) Meeting
- Monthly Journal Club
- Quarterly Combined Trauma/Burn Morbidity and Mortality Conference
- Resident and medical student education
- Quality improvement initiatives and case review
The fellowship emphasizes progressive operative autonomy, multidisciplinary collaboration, and leadership development within a modern regional burn center.