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Division of Critical Care Medicine

Fellowship Training in Critical Care Medicine Doctor Future Directions
Goal The major aim of the fellowship training program for critical care medicine is to educate a specialist with capability of appropriately handling the patients admitted to the intensive care units.
Training program

  1. The trainee and program duration：

    The fellowship training program in critical care medicine includes the necessary skills, attitude, competencies and Knowledge required for intensive care practice. The program is open for the specialist/subspecialist of the internal medicines. The program duration is one to two years.

  2. Training site：

    Medical intensive care unit for nine months
    Surgical intensive care unit for one month
    Neurological intensive care unit and the department of anesthesiology for two month

  3. Training program：

    1. Morning meetings and journal reading club in the intensive care unit
      The ICU morning meetings take place three times a week. The trainee host these meetings. The journal club takes place twice a week after the morning meetings. The topics include all aspects of critical care medicine. The referenced journals include American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, Critical care medicine, Intensive care medicine, NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Annals of Intensive Care, etc.
    2. The clinical practice in the medical intensive care units (nine months)
      The fellow have the duty and training tasks as follows
      • As a consultant of the residents in critical care units
      • Primary care for patients during the night shift and holiday if necessary
      • Make medical decisions for critical ill patients under the supervision of intensivists
      • Get familiar with point-of-care ultrasounds (POCUS) under supervision of intensivists
      • Participate in the ward round of nutrition team
      • As a consultant in the intensive care units
    3. The clinical practice in the surgical intensive care units (one month)
      Aims in surgical intensive care units are to understand the difference between surgical and medical opinions in critical care. The fellows should join the surgical rounds and meetings. They will not get involved in the primary care of these patients but will be an opinion provider to the surgical teams. Besides primary care, the surgical team could have an appropriate request to our fellows.
    4. Neurologic intensive care unit and the department of anesthesiology (two month)
      The fellow should participate in the ward rounds, morning meetings and other associated meetings in the neurologic intensive care units and receive the training about advanced airway managements and patient monitoring in the department of anesthesiology.
    5. The fellow should acquire these techniques, include
      • Advanced airway management and catheter placements
      • Hemodynamic monitoring with systemic and pulmonary arterial catheters
      • Advanced life supports, such as ECMO and IABP
      • Handling of patients under mechanical ventilation
      • Make medical decisions according to evidence based medicine
      • Appropriate comments in the morning meetings and journal club