Join the Acute Care Surgeons at New Mexico’s only Level I Trauma Center. Applications process begins March 1 through SAFAS. Interviews will be conducted June through July 2024. Application deadline is May 1.
505-925-7671
The Division of Acute Care Surgery at the University of New Mexico has had an ACGME accredited Surgical Critical Care Fellowship since 2017, and an AAST-accredited Acute Care Surgery Fellowship since 2020. Both are designed to provide excellent training in the management of critically ill surgical patients and all phases of Acute Care Surgery care.
The fellowships are overseen by ten acute care surgery faculty and one EM/CC faculty. The fellows also benefit from training with intensivists from other specialties including emergency medicine, anesthesiology, neurology, neurosurgery and medical critical care.
The AAST-accredited ACS fellowship is a 2-year fellowship designed to give fellows training in all facets of acute care surgery. The first year is the traditional SCC fellowship with time spent on the Trauma service and taking overnight call. Rotations include Trauma Surgical Burn ICU, Cardiothoracic/Vascular/ECMO ICU, Neuro ICU, and on the Trauma Surgery Service. Electives in Palliative Care, MICU, advanced US, Nephrology, and other relevant areas are offered.
The second-year fellow rotates on the night float, trauma and emergency general surgery services, gaining complex operative and decision-making experience. At approximately the 3-4-month point, the fellow graduates to the “Fellow in Exception” (FIE) role. They will be appointed as an instructor in the Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, and be credentialed as a member of the medical staff.
As an FIE, the ACS fellow will spend the remainder of their fellowship rotating as the attending on the Trauma and EGS services. In this role, they will round on the inpatients, see consults and trauma activations in the hospital, operate, take call, and staff clinic in an identical manner to the ACS faculty. They will also have rotations on the Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and Hepatobiliary Surgery to further develop operative skills.
Please see the AAST ACS fellowship page for more information about the curriculum. https://www.aast.org/acute-care-surgery/fellowship-applicants
The one-year SCC experience focuses on the management of critically ill surgical and trauma patients. Rotations include Trauma Surgical Burn ICU, Cardiothoracic/Vascular/ECMO ICU, Neuro ICU, and 2 months on the Trauma Surgery Service. Electives in Palliative Care, MICU, advanced US, Nephrology, and other relevant areas are offered.
A 2-year experience for graduates of an Emergency Medicine Residency who are eligible for ABEM certification. The first year of the track is an immersive and meaningful experience in surgical care, participating in all phases of the patient’s care, including in the operating room.
Core rotations in Trauma, emergency general surgery, night float, surgical oncology, and vascular surgery will provide an excellent experience managing surgical patients. The second year of the fellowship is similar to the traditional SCC year with an addition of one MICU month and more time in the Cardiothoracic/Vascular/ECMO ICU.
ACS Fellowship
We are recruiting two fellows for the two-year AAST ACS fellowship per year. Applicants will have completed an ACGME-approved surgical residency and be Board certified or eligible by the start of their fellowship training. We are not able to support graduates from international surgical residency programs or applicants who require visa sponsorship.
SCC Fellowship
We are recruiting one fellow for the one-year SCC fellowship per year. Applicants will have completed an ACGME-approved surgical residency and be Board certified or eligible by the start of their fellowship training.
EM-SCC Track
Graduates of ACGME-accredited Emergency Medicine Residency who are eligible for ABEM certification.
Fellowship Program Director, Coordinator & Associate Directors
Program Director
Acute Care Surgery Fellowship
Department of Surgery
1 University of New Mexico
MSC10 5610
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
smoore@salud.unm.edu
Program Coordinator
Eloy Cano
505-272-7590
ELCano@Salud.unm.edu
Program Director
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
Jasmeet S. Paul, MD
JSPaul@salud.unm.edu
Associate Program Director
Emergency Medicine Track
Jessica Mitchell, MD
