Aims

The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship program aims to provide hands-on clinical experience and advanced instruction in the following:

• Management of shock, sepsis, acute respiratory failure, acute kidney injury, acute neurological conditions and other critical illness syndromes.
• Pathophysiology of critical illness, including advanced cardiopulmonary physiology, hemodynamic and neurological monitoring, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and neurophysiology.
• Care of patients with multisystem organ failure, acute infection, traumatic injury and post-surgical critical illness.
• Communication skills, including patient and family interaction, end-of-life cares, and care of the geriatric patient.
• Mechanical ventilation, extra-corporeal life support, and point-of-care ultrasound.
• ICU procedures including endotracheal intubation, central venous catheterization and chest tube placement.

This training program employs a mix of hands-on clinical experience, interactive workshops, medical simulation and didactic education. 

The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship provides an outstanding exposure to complex surgical critical care and development of administrative skills that will allow the fellows to emerge into a leadership role upon completion.