Curriculum

 overview

Residents will meet monthly for resident & mentor-led lectures on critical care topics of interest

 Critical Care Procedure Labs

• SimMan, live tissue, and animal simulation labs focusing on high acuity, low opportunity critical care procedures will be held semi-annually. 

• Michigan State University COM Statewide Campus System

  • MSU SCS Fundamentals of Critical Care Course 

  • MSU SCS Trauma Procedures Course 

  • MSU SCS Advanced Ventilator Management Course

  • Advanced Ultrasound with Dr. Betcher

 Journal Club

A semi-annual critical appraisal of critical care evidence-based medicine topics

Mentorship

Mentors will be essential to help answer questions about career paths, participate as guest instructors, provide knowledgable didactic curricula, and recruit residents to participate in critical care research.

 Educational Conference 

Critical care track residents will be allowed to attend one local, regional, or national critical care conference during the track to allow exploration of the latest critical care knowledge and research, as well as to encourage networking for fellowship or future employment. 

Residents are encouraged to present their critical care scholarly activity at this conference. 

Funding to be provided, on a case-by-case basis for those pursuing a critical care fellowship or presenting research, from WMEMR education fund. Participating residents will be eligible for a 2 shift reduction.

Research

Critical Care Track residents will incorporate critical care-specific scholarly activity into current residency research and quality assurance curriculum. This will also count towards the residency research requirement.

Support from MSU-COM & MSU-SHM

Shared list of interesting cases for track members that would be suitable for presentation or publication. 

Curriculum