About the Program

The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center provides intensive training in clinical patient care and research through the Burn Fellowship Program. The Burn Center’s volume of work ensures that fellows receive consistent opportunities to develop their skills in the delivery and management of patient care. All fellowships are a minimum of 12 months and fellows are integrally involved in all aspects of patient care: evaluation of burn patients as an out-patient, critical in-patient, operative and post-operative care, as well as chronic out-patient management.

The goal of the Burn Fellowship Program is to provide the trainee with an in-depth experience in the management of the entire spectrum of burn and complex wound care in the setting of a large university teaching hospital. The successful trainee will have experience involving burn and complex wound treatment, burn reconstruction, burn-related research, and prevention.

Clinical Duties

Burn fellows have clinical duties caring for patients exclusively through the Burn Center. Under the supervision of the attending burn surgeon, fellows are responsible for guiding the junior residents in all aspects of burn care. Fellows also coordinate the Morbidity and Mortality reporting and presentation duties. Burn care lectures to residents, medical students and other staff members are encouraged.

Resident Educational Program and Teaching Conferences

Multidisciplinary educational lectures are held weekly, providing instruction on burn resuscitation, inhalation injuries, electrical and chemical burns, necrotizing acute soft tissue infections and wound care. A Morbidity and Mortality conference is held weekly within the Department of Surgery. Journal Club is presented once a month as is the Research Conference. Burn fellows are allowed one national meeting per year that is financially supported by the Burn Center. Additional meeting time is possible if fellows are making scientific presentations.
Research

Clinical projects are continually conducted by burn faculty. Fellows are encouraged to participate in current research projects or select new research projects.