What are the responsibilities and job description for the Open Rank of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery position at unm?
The Division of Acute Care Surgery (ACS) in the Department of Surgery at the University of New Mexico is recruiting an Acute Care Surgeon. The University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) is the primary affiliate of the UNM School of Medicine and the state's only verified Level 1 Trauma center. The UNMH serves as the major referral center for tertiary and quaternary care in New Mexico serving a population of 2.1 million people. UNMH has extensive experience and expertise in managing complex surgical patients and critically injured trauma patient. UNMH has 629 beds for adult, pediatric and psychiatric care with over 100,000 ED visits and 3500 trauma admissions (2,000 at the highest activation level, with >20% penetrating trauma) annually. This position is being recruited at the Assistant or Associate Professor level.
The UNM Division of Acute Care Surgery consists of 10 Acute Care surgeons covering all facets of Acute Care Surgery: Trauma, Emergency General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. We have a Surgical Critical Care fellowship with expertise in ECMO and ultrasound as well as an AAST certified Acute Care Surgery fellowship with two fellows each year. Our program maintains a high operative volume, with surgeons performing over 300 cases annually. The ACS Division typically manages its own vascular and thoracic cases, supported by robust subspecialty collaboration across all disciplines.
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