Critical Care Medicine Fellowship 

Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Mission

At the heart of our critical care fellowship lies a profound commitment to excellence in healthcare, minimizing disparities, and improving care for everyone, regardless of their background. We are dedicated to training highly skilled physicians who will provide extraordinary care to the critical care patients in our community. We strive to minimize inequality in care across our vulnerable communities. We aspire to create fellows equipped to face the challenges of an ever-evolving medical landscape. The ultimate goal is to build patient-centered care supported by evidence-based practice and a compassionate approach.

Program goals

The aim of CMU’s Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program aligns with our mission.

1. Provide robust training, where trainees gain exceptional hands-on experience managing a wide range of challenging clinical cases, including but not limited to complex shock, organ dysfunctions, and emergency situations, all based on evidence-based practices.
2. Provide a multidisciplinary approach that empowers learners to develop skills for life-long learning by acquiring knowledge from highly trained experts in the medical field to achieve better care and outcomes.
3. Emphasize training compassionate leaders to tackle the challenges of healthcare system delivery and build a brighter and healthier future for our patients and trainees.
4. Encourage fellows to invest in research activities and quality improvement projects that directly address gaps and deficiencies in care delivery and create solutions to achieve better patient outcomes.
5. Build a highly competent team of trainees in clinical and procedural skills to minimize adverse events and improve the outcomes for our vulnerable population. 

Program highlights

Our fellows will rotate through various units, including medical, surgical, neuroscience, trauma, and neurosurgical ICUs, as well as cardiovascular and thoracic surgery ICUs. They will participate in formal ultrasound didactics and lectures. Additionally, fellows will have access to the simulation lab to practice critical care-related procedures, such as bronchoscopy, pleural procedures, central venous line placement, arterial line placement, mock codes, and clinical scenario simulations.

Curriculum and schedule

Two-year track schedule: **Boot Camp/Orientation (First 2 Weeks of Year One)**

List of electives:

• Cardiology
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• ECMO
• Gastroenterology
• Hematology and Oncology
• Infectious Disease
• Interventional Cardiology
• Interventional Radiology
• Neurology
• Nephrology
• Neurosurgery
• Palliative Care
• Pulmonology
• Radiology
• Research and Quality Improvement

Research and scholarly activity: Research program lecture series (through CMU)

• Our fellows will be assigned mentors during their first year of training to help them set goals and expectations, including opportunities for research and scholarly activities. Fellows will also be encouraged to present their research locally at the CMU Annual Research Symposium, the Michigan Chapter of SCCM, and nationally at the Annual SCCM Conference or the CHEST Conference.

Didactics

• Weekly Fellow Lectures
• Core Curriculum Lectures
• Comprehensive Ultrasound Lectures and Online Modules
• Mechanical Ventilation Lecture Series
• Weekly Board Review Sessions
• Biweekly Internal Medicine Grand Rounds
• Biweekly EM-CCM (Emergency Medicine-Critical Care Medicine) Morbidity and Mortality
• Monthly Critical Care Grand Rounds
• Monthly Case Conferences
• Multidisciplinary Morbidity and Mortality Reviews (Surgery and Trauma)
• Monthly Critical Care Morbidity and Mortality Sessions
• Biweekly Simulation Center Training
• Annual Critical Care Symposium
• Annual Society of Critical Care Medicine (SSCM) Conference