ATLS Faculty Types
National Faculty
The ACS COT Chair and Vice Chair, Chiefs of the ACS Regional Committees (past or present), and the members of the Subcommittee on ATLS to the ACS COT.
Regional Faculty
The ACS State/Provincial COT Chairs (or Program Directors in other countries in which the program is offered under the auspices of an approved surgical organization or society).
State/Provincial Faculty
S/P Faculty members are appointed at the discretion of the S/P Chair person or international Program Director and assist in the training of the ATLS instructors and students.
Instructor Course Director
The course director for an instructor course should be the S/P COT Chair or international Program Director. The Chair may delegate this responsibility to a S/P faculty member who is a surgeon and is qualified as a course director for an instructor course.
Student Course Director/Co-director
The course director is responsible for being present and available during the entire course to ensure that the quality of the course and the essential requirements established for the course are maintained.
Instructor Faculty
Instructor faculty are defined as doctor instructors of the ATLS Program and serve as a mentor to course participants when teaching in an ATLS Student or Instructor Course.
Instructor Candidate
Instructor candidates are doctors who successfully complete an ATLS Student Course and satisfy the prerequisites for and successfully complete an ATLS Instructor Course, but who have not completed their teaching requirements.
Educator Faculty
The medical educator must be able to explain, interpret, and put into context the principles of teaching and learning that are embedded in the ATLS Program.
Course Coordinator
The course coordinator is the course organizer who, working closely with the director, is primarily responsible for pre-course planning, a smoothly run course, and post-course summation.
