Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Our multidisciplinary, comprehensive critical care medicine curriculum trains well-rounded intensivists capable of treating the critically ill and injured patient with any variety of pathophysiology.

Overview

ABA/ABEM and ABIM/ABEM tracts

Our EM/CCM curriculum is standard for both fellowship tracts, with our fellows being placed in ACGME-approved Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) or Internal Medicine/Critical Care Medicine (IM/CCM) ACGME-approved training slots. The Divisions of Critical Care Medicine within the Departments of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, and Surgery all support this multidisciplinary fellowship training curriculum.

Education

Our fellowship offers a plethora of clinical, didactic and research educational opportunities.

Attendings from our various ICUs are world-renowned educators and researchers in an assortment of CCM fields. They offer bedside teaching pearls on shock, mechanical ventilation, disease pathophysiology, acute stabilization and resuscitation optimization, antimicrobial therapy, and ethical considerations, to name a few.

Our required didactic lecture series has five hours of lectures each week, and our novel Multi-Disciplinary Critical Care Lecture Series (MDCCLS) draws in attending experts from pulmonary, anesthesiology, acute care surgery, emergency medicine, toxicology, ultrasound and more to provide evidence-based education for fellows.

Fellows are also involved in creating mini lectures to provide daily educational opportunities for the rotating house staff. Fellows are required to take the annual Multi-Disciplinary Critical Care Knowledge Assessment in-training exam to help identify any knowledge gaps and prepare for board examination. This overall experience allows our fellows to complete their fellowship with a deep breadth of knowledge regarding the critical care medicine specialty. Our goal is to make you an excellent, well-educated intensivist.

Curriculum

Our 24-month curriculum conforms to ACGME Critical Care Medicine Fellowship training requirements of anesthesiology and internal medicine and includes:

Total clinical ICU Blocks (multi-disciplinary mix) = 18-20 blocks
- MICU: 6-8 blocks
- SICU: 5-7 blocks
- CTICU: 4-6 blocks
- CCU: 1 block
- Neuro ICU: 1 block
Selectives = 3 blocks (Mix of required electives: interventional pulmonary/bronchoscopy, nutrition, palliative care, ultrasound, surgical airway, etc.)
Electives = 3-7 blocks (tailored to individual interests)
Required educational / research / administrative / QI responsibilities
Required completion of a scholarly activity
If in the CCM tract, you will also complete the prerequisite/required medicine time not obtained during EM residency training