The program curriculum is designed to provide fellows with a comprehensive clinical experience with graduated advancement to the goal of a superior level of independent, competent practice in surgical critical care. Surgical critical care (SCC) fellows are expected to demonstrate the mastery of the ACGME competencies of Medical Knowledge, Patient Care, Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Interpersonal and Communications Skills, System Based Practice and Professionalism. It is our goal to stimulate and advance the knowledge of the science and art of critical care surgery.
The surgical critical care fellow will act as a physician, teacher, administrator and researcher. The numerous clinical, system and ethical issues that arise in a busy SICU will result in the SCC fellow becoming an adept problem solver. The surgical critical care fellow will assume the role of an attending as the year progresses and will be expected to demonstrate independence in clinical decision making. They will also be integrally involved in the clinical education of junior residents and medical students during their rotations in the SICU.
The Surgical Critical Care fellow will spend 10 months rotating in the SICU and one month each in the MICU and CT-ICU (The fellowship year runs from 8/1 through 7/31.)
Education for the critical care fellows occurs throughout the academic year and includes daily bedside teaching rounds, weekly didactic sessions (protected time), twice monthly critical care journal club, and multidisciplinary conference twice weekly.
The fellow will be encouraged to attend a conference of their choosing (such as the SCCM annual conference, annual board review course, or the EAST annual scientific assembly. The program also offers the fellow the opportunity to become an ATLS instructor by taking the instructor candidate course offered at SJUMC, as well as partaking in other courses offered at the institution, such the ASSET or BEST courses.
