Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Curriculum

We emphasize the physiologic basis and clinical application of mechanical ventilation, physiologic and metabolic profiles, nutritional support, antimicrobial therapy, electrolyte balance, trauma pathophysiology, invasive and non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring, ICP monitoring and therapy, acid-base chemistry, pulmonary physiology, ethics, and computerized application of scoring systems.

Subspecialty fellows will receive comprehensive training in all facets of inpatient medical and surgical ICU, trauma, and cardiac intensive care.

Teaching Responsibilities

Internal Medicine and Medicine-Pediatrics residents
Emergency Medicine residents
Anesthesia residents
Medical students from Tufts Medical School and UMMS rotating through the ICU

Rotations

First Year

MICU: 5 months
SICU: 1 month
Anesthesia: 1 month
Cardiac ICU: 1 month
Electives*: 4 months

Second Year

MICU: 5 months
SICU: 1 month
Cardiac ICU: 1 month
Electives*: 5 months

*Electives may include: pulmonary, nephrology/dialysis, infectious diseases, echocardiography, pediatric critical care, research, and others.