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Trauma & Acute Care Surgery — FNB reading list.

What a two-year FNB fellow in Trauma & Acute Care Surgery reads, and what each title is for.

All 41 branches
7Titles listed
4Read cover to cover
2 yrsFellowship length
400Marks in the exit exam
The fellowship

Trauma & Acute Care Surgery at a glance

Damage-control surgery, polytrauma management and emergency general surgery.

DisciplineSurgical - General, Gastrointestinal and Oncologic
Length2 years, full-time at an NBEMS-accredited hospital
Entered fromDNB/MS General Surgery, DNB/MS Orthopaedics, DNB/MCh Neuro Surgery, or DNB/MD Anaesthesiology
EntranceFET, the NBEMS Fellowship Entrance Test — 100 questions in 105 minutes, Part-A from the feeder specialty and Part-B from this fellowship.
How this list is used

Reading for Trauma & Acute Care Surgery

Mattox, Moore and Feliciano's 'Trauma' is the reference read through the fellowship, while ATLS is assumed knowledge from day one and gets revised before every stint on the receiving floor. The WSES guidelines are the practical decision documents in Indian units because they are written for resource-varied settings and give explicit thresholds for non-operative management and angioembolisation. Rich's and the polytrauma textbook cover the vascular and combined orthopaedic injuries that make up so much of Indian road-traffic trauma.

Titles are tagged core reading — the ones fellows finish — or reference, the ones they look things up in. Editions are given where the current edition is what you want to buy.

  1. Traumacore readingDavid V. Feliciano, Kenneth L. Mattox, Ernest E. Moore (eds.)The field's read-through reference, worked through organ system by organ system across the fellowship year.
  2. Textbook of Polytrauma Management: A Multidisciplinary Approachcore readingHans-Christoph Pape, Joseph Borrelli Jr., Ernest E. Moore, Roman Pfeifer, Philip F. Stahel (eds.) · Springer · 3rd edition (2022)Used for damage control sequencing and timing of definitive fixation in the multiply injured patient.
  3. Rich's Vascular Traumacore readingTodd E. Rasmussen, Nigel R. M. Tai (eds.) · Elsevier · 4th edition (2021)The vascular injury reference - exposure, shunting and repair - kept close during penetrating and mangled-limb work.
  4. Acute Care Surgery and Trauma: Evidence-Based Practicecore readingStephen M. Cohn (ed.) · CRC Press · 3rd edition (2023)Read for the evidence behind contested calls, and useful when a fellow has to defend management in a journal club or viva.
  5. Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical CarereferenceJuan A. Asensio, Donald D. Trunkey (eds.) · Elsevier · 2nd edition (2015)Problem-oriented text used for the surgical critical care half of the job - ventilation, sepsis and post-injury organ failure.
  6. ATLS Advanced Trauma Life Support Student Course ManualreferenceAmerican College of Surgeons Committee on TraumaAssumed knowledge from the first receiving shift; revised before rotations and before instructor courses.
  7. Liver Trauma: WSES GuidelinesreferenceWorld Society of Emergency Surgery · 2020 guideline editionThe non-operative management thresholds and angioembolisation criteria quoted on solid-organ injury calls.

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The exit examination

What you are reading towards

The exit examination is the FEE - Fellowship Exit Examination, held after completion of the fellowship training. Theory: one paper of 100 marks (10 questions of 10 marks each) of three hours' duration. Practical: 300 marks, comprising clinical examination and viva voce. A candidate must obtain a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate across theory and practical (200 of 400) to qualify, with the theory paper itself to be passed at 50/100. Trainees must also appear in the formative assessment during training. Successful candidates are awarded the FNB (or FNB-PD) at the annual NBEMS convocation.

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Surgical - General, Gastrointestinal and Oncologic

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Frequently asked

FNB Trauma & Acute Care Surgery — questions

Which books do FNB Trauma & Acute Care Surgery fellows read?

The 7 titles on this page, of which 4 are read cover to cover and the rest are kept as references. Most fellows own two or three and use the department copy for the others.

How long is the FNB in Trauma & Acute Care Surgery?

2 years, full-time at an NBEMS-accredited hospital, followed by the Fellowship Exit Examination.

Which specialty do you enter FNB Trauma & Acute Care Surgery from?

DNB/MS General Surgery, DNB/MS Orthopaedics, DNB/MCh Neuro Surgery, or DNB/MD Anaesthesiology

How is the FNB exit examination marked?

One theory paper of 100 marks with ten questions of ten marks each, and a 300-mark practical of clinical examination and viva. A candidate needs 50 per cent in aggregate across the two.

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