Core ICU Training: Evaluation and management of shock, respiratory failure, sepsis, multiorgan dysfunction, acute neurologic injury, and perioperative critical illness.

  • Advanced skills: invasive hemodynamics, mechanical ventilation, airway management, bedside ultrasound/echocardiography, bronchoscopy exposure, and critical care procedures.
  • Specialty exposure: neurocritical care and Comprehensive Stroke Center practice, cardiovascular critical care, trauma, and VA/VV ECMO.
  • Didactics: protected teaching, journal club, evidence-based medicine, simulation, morbidity and mortality review, interdisciplinary conferences, and board preparation.
  • Longitudinal development: mentored research/scholarly activity; a fellow-led quality improvement or patient-safety project; education, communication, professionalism, and systems-based practice.

Rotation schedule

PGY-4 (Year 1)

  • Medical ICU – 4 Months
  • Cardiac ICU – 1 Month
  • Cardiovascular Surgical ICU – 1 Month
  • Neurocritical Care – 1 Month
  • Trauma/Surgical ICU – 1 Month
  • MICU Night Float – 1 Month
  • Critical Care Ultrasound/ECHO – 1 Month
  • Pulmonary Consults/Bronchoscopy – 1 Month
  • Research/Elective – 1 Month

PGY-5 (Year 2)

  • Medical ICU – 2 Months
  • Cardiac/CV Surgical ICU – 1 Month
  • Neurocritical Care – 1 Month
  • Trauma/Surgical ICU – 1 Month
  • ECMO/Advanced Organ Support – 1 Month
  • MICU Night Float – 1 Month
  • Anesthesia/Advanced Airway – 1 Month
  • Research – 1 Month
  • Elective – 1 Month
  • QI/ICU Leadership – 1 Month

Each training year totals 12 months; longitudinal QI, scholarship, and education are integrated across rotations.