Critical Care Fellowship Program (ACGME)

Overview – Critical Care Fellowship (1 year)

We are happy to offer an ACGME-accredited standalone 1-year Critical Care (CC) Fellowship under the umbrella of our distinguished PCCM Fellowship Program to meet the interest for critical care training for physicians who have a background in a non-pulmonary medical subspecialty. We can offer one dedicated CC fellowship spot per year. Requirement is the previous completion of a 2-3 year ACGME-, AOA, ACGME-I, or RCPSC-accredited subspecialty in internal medicine (e.g. nephrology, infectious disease, cardiology). The curriculum focuses on a robust and intensive critical care experience, including rotations in the medical intensive care unit, the cardiothoracic and cardiac ICUs, the surgical/trauma intensive care units, the neurologic intensive care unit. Fellows obtain additional experiences on bronchoscopy, PFT and advanced lung diseases, and consultative rotations. Graduating fellows are board-eligible for the ABIM Critical Care Board exams.

Model Schedule

Orientation: 2 weeks
MICU: 18 weeks
CTICU: 4 weeks
Trauma/Surgical ICU: 4 weeks
Neuro-ICU: 2-4 weeks
CCU: 2 weeks
Bronchoscopy: 4 weeks
Airway: 2 weeks
Advanced Lung Diseases/PFTs: 2 weeks
Pulmonary Consults: 2-4 weeks
Rehabilitation: 2 weeks
Elective: 6 weeks

Rotations occur in 2-week blocks. Notably, the scheduled may be adapted based on experiences during previous internal medicine subspecialty training.

Please contact us if you have completed an ACGME-, AOA, ACGME-I, or RCPSC-accredited internal medicine subspecialty and are interested in pursuing Critical Care training, please contact us. We look forward to reviewing your application. Your application packet should include a personal statement, medical school transcript and MSPE, USMLE or equivalent score report, and 3 letters of support.

Critical Care Fellowship Director:
Lucas Kimmig , MD
Telephone: 773-702-5334
l kimmig@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

Program Coordinator:
Carli Danaher
Telephone: 773-834-3500 Fax: 773-702-6500
cdanaher@bsd.uchicago.edu