Trauma Leagues

WINTER COURSE PROGRAM FOR FOREIGNERS

July 7th to 11th, 2025

Title: Trauma Leagues: apprenticeship from prevention to definitive treatment of trauma patients

 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

In the early 1990′s in Brazil, clusters of medical students interested in increasing their exposure to certain medical disciplines started to emerge and organize under the name of Academic Leagues. Leagues first appeared in a few major academic centers such as the University of Campinas, where the first League was created in 1992.

Trauma Leagues consist of groups of medical students that voluntarily congregate under the supervision of a surgeon, often with an academic career and respectable academic credentials. The stated goals of the Trauma Leagues are to: (1) increase the members‘ knowledge in trauma, surgery, and emergency care; (2) offer the students the opportunity to participate in emergency room, operating room, and trauma resuscitation care; (3) offer the student the opportunity to participate in research and other academic activities of the Trauma Programs; (4) offer the opportunity to observe all the daily activities of practicing surgeons (apprenticeship); (5) participate and organize trauma meetings, as example the Brazilian Congress of Trauma Leagues (CoLT); and (6) develop and work in injury-prevention projects.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. Discuss the capacity of the Trauma Leagues to bring the students to their actions as a way to attract new general surgeons.
2. Present the activities promoted by the Trauma Leagues in Brazil in an extracurricular way and form as part of a parallel curriculum.
3. Provide students the opportunity to learn about trauma and have more experience in practical skills and realist simulation, becoming more prepared to take care of trauma patients.
4. Carry out prevention activities, such as the P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth); Yellow May; and Saving Lives.
5. Explain how participation in Trauma League has been an effective strategy to encourage medical students to choose a career in general surgery in Campinas, Brazil.

 

TEACHING METHODS

1. Lectures with active interactive methodology.
2. Visit to the university hospital and pre-hospital care.
3. Discussion of didactic clinical cases at ICU and in tele grand rounds by telemedicine.
4. Realistic simulation.
5. Interaction with medical students and students from high school during the P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth) Program.

 

Assessment:

1. Presence and punctuality
2. Interaction with the faculty and other students.

 

Duration: 1 week.

 

Pre requisites: pre-clinical knowledge (at least 50% of the medical course at the foreign institution) and fluent English.

 

Course material: 

1. Papers elaborated by the faculty.
2. Seminars (articles will be provided prior to sessions).

 

FACULTY

Course organization and responsibility:

• Gustavo Pereira Fraga
• Henrique Valério Mesquita
• José Alberto Fernandes Silva Filho
• José Benedito Bortoto
• Mario Eduardo F. Mantovani
• Thiago R. A. Calderan

 

Professors from the Division of Trauma Surgery, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas (Unicamp).

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Medical students with pre-clinical knowledge (at least 50% of the medical course at the foreign institution);
• 8 to 10 students.

 

ONE-WEEK-SCHEDULE

 

	Monday July 7th	Tuesday July 8th	Wednesday July 9th	Thursday July 10th	Friday July 11th
8 am – 10am	Welcome and visit to Clinics Hospital of University of Campinas (Unicamp)	Activities of Trauma Leagues	The Trauma Surgeon and Critical Care	How to create and manage a Trauma League?	Experience in Trauma Leagues
9am -10am		Hospital Rounds (ICU and Wards)	FAST exame training	Trauma Division Weekly Meeting (Clinical Case)	Realistc Simulation
10am-12am
12pm-14pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14pm-15pm	Trauma Leagues: Our experience in Campinas	P.A.R.T.Y Program (Starts at 13pm)	Blood Bank Visit and importance in Trauma Care	Pre-hospital visit (SAMU)	Visit to Hospital Santa Tereza
15pm-17pm	Visit to Congresso Brasileiro de Hérnia		Operating Room Visit	Pre-hospital visit (GRAU)	Visit to Hospital Santa Tereza
After	Dinner			Pizza