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| A facility with a designated trauma service must have: | I | II | III | IV | V |
| (1) An outreach program with telephone and on-site consultations with physicians of the community and outlying areas regarding trauma care; | X | X | |||
| (2) A public education program addressing injury prevention or documentation of participation in regional injury prevention activities; | X | X | X | ||
| (3) Training, including: | X | ||||
| (a) A formal program of continuing trauma care education for: | X | X | |||
| (i) Staff physicians; | X | X | |||
| (ii) Nurses; | X | X | |||
| (iii) Allied health care professionals; | X | X | |||
| (iv) Community physicians; | X | X | |||
| (v) Prehospital personnel; | X | X | |||
| (b) Residency programs accredited by the accreditation council of graduate medical education, with a commitment to training physicians in trauma management; | X | ||||
| (c) Make the facility available for initial and maintenance training of invasive manipulative skills for prehospital personnel; | X | X | X | X | |
| (4) A trauma research program. | X | ||||