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
- 4 blocks of ICU service
- First year
- 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
- General 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.