ATLS for consultants...

[Ronald Simon]

We are currently having a debate in our State Trauma Advisory Committee 
about whether trauma related consultants (neurosurg, ortho, ent, etc) 
should be required to have taken ATLS to care for a trauma pt. The 
question is whether this should be part of the requirements for trauma 
center designation. No question that members of the trauma service and 
the ED should but what about the subspecialists? Sure its a good concept 
but actually getting them to take it is another thing. What is the 
practice of other trauma systems?
Thanks
Ron Simon, MD
Jacobi Medical Center
Bronx, NY