title: Attitude of Nigerian surgical residents towards trauma care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the attitude of some Nigerian surgical residents to trauma care.
  
  
  METHODS
  Surgical residents from three tertiary care facilities located in South Western Nigeria completed a structured questionnaire, which contained twelve questions directed at eliciting their attitude to trauma care.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fifty-four residents completed the questionnaire. Majority of them were males (88.9%) and aged =30 years (96.3%). Over half (55.6%) were junior residents and one third each had stayed for <2 years, >2-4 years and >4 years respectively in training. Specialties represented included Oral and maxillofacial surgery, General surgery, Orthopaedic surgery, Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology, Urology and Cardio thoracic unit. Only 9.3% and 13.0% of them had received training in the ACLS and ATLS respectively. However, most trainees displayed moderate (42.6%) to major (46.3%) interest in care of the injured judging by the time in future practice hoped to be dedicated to trauma care. Most trainees considered trauma care a rewarding, gratifying and essential aspect of all surgeons practice. At the same time, majority felt it is stressful, time consuming and disrupts a lot of routine activities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The studied group displayed a high level of interest in the care of the injured and willingness to devote quality time to this despite the fact that trauma care was considered stressful and time consuming. A need to review our training curriculum to ensure that ATLS and ACLS are incorporated early in the training was observed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Ile-Ife.
authors.forename: F O
authors.initials: FO
authors.lastname: Oginni
authors.forename: O O
authors.initials: OO
authors.lastname: Fagade
authors.forename: T O
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Temisaren
authors.forename: A O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Takure
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D022561:Advanced Cardiac Life Support / Q000193:education; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003625:Data Collection; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D009549:Nigeria; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000601:surgery*