Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Specifics
Our Philosophy
We believe that this year should be a fellowship year, not an extension of residency.
As such, we strive to ensure that the fellows are given responsibilities and autonomy
commensurate with their experience.
Rotation Specifics
In our 1-year program, the fellows are both given 6 months in the Shock-Trauma ICU.
This ICU houses all trauma and EGS patients. The fellows are responsible for the
ICU during this time, expected to lead rounds, assign tasks to residents, APPs, and
students daily. They have a large ancillary support staff consisting of a unit specific
pharmacist, respiratory therapist, clinical nutritionist, and speech, occupational,
and physical therapists. There are 9 surgical faculty core to the Trauma and EGS
service line, all of which are board certified in surgical critical care. Fellows
spend additional months in the Surgical ICU, which houses all other patients from
surgical service lines and in the Neuro ICU for additional experience in other management
of critical brain pathology. There are additional elective possibilities throughout
many other service lines that can be chosen to fit the fellows career goals.
Call
Fellows take call 24-hour call, every other Saturday. This call gives the fellow
a 鈥渏unior faculty鈥� experience and includes managing trauma resuscitations, operative
cases, and the ICU simultaneously, all while a trauma faculty member is in house.
The calls are designed to allow the fellow a degree of freedom that is different from
residency, while still maintaining the safety of having an experienced surgeon nearby.
Didactics
Didactics are accomplished in two protected conferences weekly in which a variety
of operative and critical care topics are discussed.
Extra Opportunities
Additional, non-clinical experiences are offered throughout the year. We ask each
fellow to participate in a quality improvement project with more available per the
fellow鈥檚 desire. We additionally include our fellows in Trauma Peer Review and our
Trauma operations committee, ensuring that they get exposure to the inner workings
of a level one trauma center. Finally, there are additional opportunities that are
given such as ATLS instructorship, the ASSET course, and more!