Department
Name of department: Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Department
Head of department: Fernando Marco
Surgeon in charge of fellows: Jose Valle-Cruz
Scrub in
Is there an opportunity for the AO Fellows to scrub in? Yes
Is there any additional / special license required to scrub in? No
More information
Number of beds in department: 90
Total Orthopedic trauma cases per year: 500–1000
Total Polytrauma cases with injury severity score greater than 15 per year: 50–100
Other activities: Access to university cadaver lab, access to national courses and local resident formation courses
Language
Dominant language spoken in the operating room: Spanish
English written and spoken by our team members: written (4)* / spoken (4)*
* Level of proficiency, with 1 equaling basic and 5 equaling proficient.