Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Resident and Fellow Ultrasound Education delivered by Echocardiographer Extraordinaire, Dr. David Harris
The critical care medicine fellowship is designed for graduates of another 2-year ABIM subspecialty fellowship to receive medical critical care training. It is a rigorous one-year program with robust critical care exposure.
Rotations include the medical ICU (4 months at UC, 1 month of UC Nights, 1 month at the VA), surgical ICU (1 month), cardiovascular ICU (1 month) and neuroscience ICU (1 month). 2-3 weeks at the beginning of the year are spent in Fellows’ Boot Camp training, and another 1-2 in the medical stepdown unit (MSD). 4 weeks vacation and 6-8 weeks of electives are included.
Electives are discretionary but can include radiology, ultrasound training, Interventional Pulmonology, and/or other procedural electives. The curriculum is flexible within the limits of ACGME requirements for Critical Care board certification.
Upon graduation, fellows will be comfortable with airway and ventilator management, arterial and central line (including dialysis catheter and introducer) placement, thoracentesis, paracentesis, and chest tube placement.
Our first Critical Care fellow, Dr. Farhan Qadeer, offers this testimonial:
Joining UC as a fellowship offered me an amazing experience. The program gave me both the supervision I needed early in the year and the autonomy to practice what I had learned later in the year. The collegial atmosphere and healthy working environment with my attendings was an essential aspect of UC. I was looking to work with colleagues who brought clinical experience and a helpful attitude at work. Not only was I able to achieve these goals, I graduated with new skills and confidence beyond my expectations. My work during the year gave me the confidence to evaluate and intervene upon patients whose complexity and severity of illness would have given me pause in the past. Over the year I became more comfortable with these patients and by graduation I was confident in my plans of care. I was able to improve my leadership skills, consistently strive to achieve personal and collective goals and challenge my abilities throughout this fellowship.
Without hesitation, I would choose UC as my fellowship program again if given the choice.
Farhan Qadeer, MD; Critical Care Fellow 2019-2020
Applying to the Critical Care Track:
The Critical Care Track is listed within the Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship on ERAS. Search for the University of Cincinnati PCCM fellowship, or search our ACGME ID number: 1563821056. Once inside, select the “Critical Care Medicine (1 Year Fellowship)” track and submit your application!
Note: applicants must have completed Internal Medicine residency and another 2-year ABIM subspecialty fellowship for this track. Internal Medicine graduates who have not completed another subspecialty fellowship that wish to pursue critical care-only training are required to do a 2-year fellowship. We are also unable to accept Emergency Medicine graduates to this program.
