St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, (SJUMC) is part of a world-class hospital and healthcare network supported by over 5,000 leading and renowned physicians, nurses and care teams. Based in Paterson, New Jersey, St. Joseph’s University Medical Center has the fifth busiest Emergency Department in the country. SJUMC is a 650-bed tertiary care medical center and offers an ACGME approved one- year surgical critical care fellowship position. In 2021, the SICU had 9,117 admissions and 670 admissions to our surgical stepdown unit.
The surgical Intensive Care Unit is a 12-bed, state of the art facility located in the modern Critical Care Building. SJUMC has a busy open-heart program and active programs in vascular, thoracic, bariatric, hepatobiliary, breast and general surgery. In addition, SJUMC has a robust neurosurgical and neurointerventional program, caring for a variety of neurologic diseases, both on an elective and emergency basis. SJUMC is a state designated, American College of Surgeons verified Level II trauma center with approximately 1,300 trauma admissions per year.
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center has an ACGME approved general surgery residency program. There are 9 board- certified critical care surgeons who are responsible for patient care and partaking in teaching rounds in the SICU for both fellows and residents rotating through the SICU.
Mission
The mission of the St. Joseph’s Surgical Critical Care Residency program is to provide residents with a comprehensively structured cognitive and procedural clinical education in the critical care setting. This, in turn, will enable them to become competent, proficient, and professional critical care surgeons that are qualified to treat critically ill surgical patients, teach at the undergraduate and postgraduate clinical level and develop and nurture a lifelong commitment to learning and refining their skills/ abilities as critical care surgeons. The Mission of the program also incorporates the Mission of St. Joseph’s Health to render quality healthcare with a special concern for the poor, vulnerable and underserved.
Goals
The year spent in Surgical Critical Care will be one of rapid growth in the ability of the young surgeons to diagnose and manage disease in the critically ill surgical patient. The goals of the educational program is to develop the proficiency to recognize the multiple surgical and medical issues of the critically ill surgical patient, understand the complex pathophysiology of critical illness and to become proficient in the multidisciplinary treatment approach necessary to result in a successful clinical outcome for these patients.
