Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

Overview

The surgical critical care fellowship is an ACGME-accredited program with an approved complement of two fellows per year. The second year fellowship is an optional non-accredited year during which an instructor faculty position is awarded. Two years is recommended but not required. 

The fellowship comprises of clinical rotations including trauma ICU, emergency general surgery ICU, medicine ICU, cardiothoracic ICU, neurosurgery ICU and two electives provided in one-month rotations. Call requirements are no more than one night in seven with at least two weekends off a month. This fellowship abides by the ACGME 80-hour work week requirements.

Clinical Continuity of Care

Maintenance of general surgical skills is strongly encouraged and supported while providing clinical continuity of care. Therefore, this fellowship equally balances operative intervention with peri-operative critical care delivery. There is a robust complement of residents and advanced practice providers assigned to each patient care service. The fellows, however, deliver primary patient care to a service separate from the chief residents to minimize any conflict in education.

High Volume, High-Acuity

The Trauma/Emergency Surgery Service admits over 3,900 adult trauma patients with over 1,400 high-level trauma activations. Almost 90 percent of the trauma admissions are for blunt trauma. In addition to trauma, there are over 1,500 general surgical emergencies and a busy elective practice that includes laparoscopy and endoscopy. The Surgical Critical Care Service serves as a consultative service for critically ill patients from the division of general surgery and the department of surgery.

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