Maram Ismail

• Provide expert clinical management with patients presenting to ER who needed plastic surgery intervention.
• Perform and assist in complex reconstructive procedures for hand trauma, head and neck trauma, hand deformities, and pediatric congenital deformities.
• Lead the outpatient clinic independently, providing expert consultations, and perioperative management, with senior input when necessary.
• Supervise the junior staff in managing acute trauma patients, inpatient activities, and teaching them various surgical skills.
• Provide department consultations in collaboration with other teams.

Emergency and Trauma Care:
• Provided coverage for A&E shifts in one of the busiest trauma centers, assessing and managing acutely ill trauma patients, collaboration with other teams in a multidisciplinary approach.

Inpatient Ward Duties:
• Prepared patients for surgery including high-risk patients, provided post-operative care, monitored patients closely for complications and managing their recovery.
• Collaborated with other departments especially orthopedics to co-manage patients, referring to consultants for specialized opinions when necessary.

Outpatient Clinic and Operative Theatre:
• Led the minor procedures room outpatient performing minor procedures, and follow up of postoperative wound.
• Participated in a various range of procedures covering general and plastic surgery specialties.

• During my rotations in one of the most acclaimed university hospitals, my training included:
• Covering A&E shifts, providing immediate management for acute complex facial, hand, and lower limb trauma.
• Cared for trauma inpatients, ensuring thorough follow-up for post-operative patients, including those with free flaps, attending ward rounds, and preparing patients for the operative list.
• I managed the trauma clinic on a twice-weekly basis, managing patients mainly with hand trauma and guiding them through their further treatment plans.
• Participated in the elective surgery clinic which included various complex cases referred from other facilities under consultant supervision.
• Burns rotation: Provided primary resuscitation, in-ward management and surgical intervention for burn patients in collaboration with other specialties including ICU team.
• Participated in departmental teaching sessions, contributing to the development of educational programs and case discussions

• Receiving major burn cases, delivering immediate resuscitation, and further management in collaboration with the ICU team.
• Primarily evaluating and treating patients with acute complex upper limb, lower limb and facial trauma..
• Covering the clinic duties, following up and managing trauma and burn patients mainly, with senior consultant input as needed.
• Operative list sessions: I assisted in a variety of procedures including hand trauma surgeries (hand fractures, tendon injuries, and local flaps), lower limb reconstruction ,and burn surgery.
• Participated in department discussions and teaching activities conducted weekly.

• Rotated in the Internal medicine, General Surgery, T&O, vascular Surgery, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Emergency medicine, and Geriatrics departments.
• I took medical histories from patients, performed physical examinations, attended morning reports, assisted in scheduling investigations with nurses and other divisions, and presented cases in grand rounds.
• Covering A&E shifts, immediately assessing the patients monitored patient vitals, excluding life-threatening conditions, and dealing with different types of emergency cases.
• Involved in the ER and performed many Interventions such as cannulation, blood sampling, and urinary catheterization, along with interpreting blood samples,X-rays.