Weekly Didactic and Conference List
- Trauma/General Surgery Morning Report: Mon- Sunday 7:00am-7:30am
- ICU Didactics (Fellow Teaching Conference): Friday at 12:00pm
- ICU M&M: Every 4th Friday at 12:00pm
- ICU Journal Club: Review of “Landmark Papers” Tuesday at 12:00pm
- General Surgery M&M: Every Thursday at 7:30am
- General Surgery Didactics: Every Thursday at 8:30am
- Multidisciplinary Trauma Services Committee 3rd Wednesday every month at 11:30am
- Trauma PEER Review Committee 3rd Wednesday every month at 12:30pm
- Research Meeting: 3rd Wednesday every month at 2:30pm
- Special Care (Critical Care) Committee Every other month, day varies
- Code Blue Committee – monthly, day varies
Didactic Outline
Respiratory
- ARDS diagnosis/treatment
- Ventilator liberation
- ECMO
- PE
Cardiac
- Perioperative arrhythmias/CHF/Perioperative MI
- Mechanical circulatory support
Renal
- AKI
- Renal Replacement therapy
- Management of severe electrolyte disturbances
Gastrointestinal
- GI bleeding and variceal bleeding in cirrhosis
- Acute pancreatitis
- Abdominal compartment syndrome
- Mesenteric ischemia
Infection
- Catheter related infections
- VAP diagnosis and treatment
- CAUTI
- Fever in the ICU
- Sepsis
- Antibiotic therapy
- Monitoring and resuscitation
- Steroids in septic shock
- Abdominal sepsis
Endocrine
- DKA
- Glucose management in ICU
Neurological
- Acute stroke
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Delirium
- Intractable Intracranial Hypertension
- Traumatic Brain injury
Hematology
- Coagulopathy
- Post operative bleeding
- Transfusion triggers
- Massive transfusion
Trauma
- Burns
- Thoracic trauma
- Abdominal and pelvic trauma
- Extremity trauma/REBOA
Miscellaneous
- Monitoring in the ICU
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Nutrition
- Telemedicine
- Pressure wounds
Educational Responsibilities
- SCCM Clinical Congress
- SCCM Critical Care Ultrasound Course
- SCCM membership and Practice Question Bank
- AAST Annual Meeting
- ATLS Instructor
- REBOA
Research and PI Responsibilities
Minimum 1 research project
- Selection of project and formulation of hypothesis
- IRB Submission
- Manuscript completed, ready for submission to peer reviewed journal
Lead a minimum of 1 critical care PI initiative
- Clinical Practice Guideline or protocol
- Routine revision of critical-care CPG’s and protocols
ICU Clinical Responsibilities
- 7:00am Surgical Morning Report
- 8:00am ICU Rounds
- 9:30am Multidisciplinary Rounds
- Noon Conference
- 4:00-5:00pm Afternoon Rounds & Sign Out
ICU Weekend Responsibilities
- 2 weekends off
- 2 weekends: AM rounding and Home Call on Saturday
Surgical Call Responsibilities
- If authorized for moonlighting:
- Surgical call hours will count toward the total 80 work week – must be reported
- Must be compliant with time off/down-time requirements
- Shifts will be a maximum of 12 hours
- 6 calls (maximum) a month
- No more than 2 surgical in house calls per