Curriculum:

PICU Fellow Schedule:

• Schedule: Our yearly schedule is separated into 13 4-week blocks
  • First year 
    
    • 4 blocks of ICU service 
    • 2 blocks of CV- ICU service 
    • 1 block catheterization lab 
    • 1 block anesthesia 
    • 0.5 blocks CV – OR 
    • 4.5 blocks
  • Second year 
    • 4 blocks of ICU service 
    • 2 blocks of CV- ICU service 
    • 7 blocks research
  • Third year
    
    • 4 blocks of ICU service 
      
      • One block is a Junior attending month (call free)
    • 2 blocks of CV- ICU service 
    • 7 blocks research
• Call Schedule: The intensive care unit is staffed with 3 fellows each day and one PICU fellow at night. ICU attendings are also in house with fellows 24/7. PICU fellows are assigned to 24 hour shifts during all service and research months with the exception of one month during the senior year: one month of call-free time while acting as junior attending. The distribution of calls is as follows:
  1st year fellows: 5-6 calls per month
  2nd year fellows: 4-5 calls per month
  3rd year fellows: approximately 3 calls per month

Divisional and Educational Activities: 

• Critical Care Fellow Lecture: A Critical Care division faculty member gives a lecture on a variety of topics including respiratory physiology, cardiovascular topics, ECMO, traumatic brain injury, etc. This is a protected fellow lecture.
• All Fellow Conference: Hospital wide conference for fellows from all specialties addressing education, research, career guidance, and professionalism.
• Grand Rounds: Hospital wide conference 
• Surgical Conference 
  
  • General Surgery conference
    
    • Cardiothoracic Surgery conference 
• Division Meeting 
• Education
  
  • Board Review: Questions: Fellows present board questions and we go through them together learning the material and test taking skills. 
  • Journal Club: A journal article is presented by a fellow and discussed as a division
  • Case Discussion: A patient case is presented by a fellow and teaching points are discussed 
  • Book Club: All the fellows read a chapter of Rogers or Furhrman or articles and we discuss the readings. This is a protected fellow lecture. 
• Quality Assurance Committee: Multi- disciplinary meeting with nurses, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, and social work to discuss quality issues in the PICU and improve quality of care we provide. 
• Morbidity and Mortality: We discuss and review all the deaths and any issues regarding their deaths. Usually done at the Quality Assurance Committee meetings
  
  Please see an example of our monthly educational schedule.