Fellowships

Focus on the care of the critically ill patient with additional focus on surgical, trauma, and medical pathology.

Duration: 2 years

Board Certification: ABEM

Prerequisite Rotations: 4 months of ICU

LOR: One from PD, 2 from board-certified intensivists

Match: SF Match (no centralized process)

National Organizations

• SCCM

• ACEP Critical Care Section

• EMRA Critical Care Committee

• SAEM Critical Care Interest Group

• SOCCA

Conferences

• SCCM

• SOCCA

• ACEP/EMRA/SAEM Critical Care Sections

Helpful Links

• SOCCA-Fellowships 

• SF-Match 

A joint agreement with ABEM & ABIM allows EM-trained physicians who complete an IM-CCM fellowship to sit for CCM board certification. After board certification, the EM physician will be a board-certified medical intensivist.

Duration: 2 years

Board Certification: ABIM-ABEM

Prerequisite Rotations: ABIM requires 6 months of direct patient care experience in internal medicine (> 3 in MICU) for ED residents. However, these do not need to be achieved during residency and many programs allow you to count your fellowship time towards this. Most PDs will not consider anyone with less than 4 months of internal medicine/MICU experience.

LOR: One from PD, another strongly recommended to be from the ICU chair/director

Match: ERAS (some outside the match)

National Organizations

• SCCM

• ACEP Critical Care Section

• EMRA Critical Care Committee

• SAEM Critical Care Interest Group

• American College of Chest Physicians

• American Trauma Society

• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

• American Heart Association

Conferences

• EMRA/SAEM/ACEP Critical Care Sections

• Essentials of EMCrit

• American Thoracic Society

• European Society of Intensive Medicine

• UMMC Critical Care Conference

• Weil/UCSD Symposium on Critical Care and Emergency Medicine

• Northern New England Critical Care Conference

• Rocky Mountain Regional Critical Care Conference

The neurointensivist’s niche is the interaction between the brain and all other organ systems of the ICU patient. The NICU doc’s role also entails helping patients and families deal with the end of life, goals of care, loss of identity, and other ethical issues.

Duration: 2 years

Board Certification: UCNS & ACGME (some programs).

Prerequisite Rotations: vary depending on the program. Recommend NICU elective. 

LOR: At least 3. One from PD

Match: SF Match

National Organizations

• Neurocritical Care Society

• SCCM Neuroscience Section

• SCCM

• ACEP Critical Care Section

• EMRA Critical Care Committee

• SAEM Critical Care Interest Group

Conferences

• NCS

• SCCM

• ACEP

• AAN (more neuro than neuro-crit)

• SAEM CCM Interest Group

• AAEM

Emphasis on surgical ICU patients versus MICU patients. Pre/post-op management, complications, trauma, hemorrhagic shock.

Duration: 2 years. First year is usually a surgical prelim year for EM applicants and the second is the traditional SCC fellowship year. The first year varies widely between programs. Less cross-training options due to the 8mo requirement in SICU & prelim year

Board Certification: ABS

Requirements: SICU &/or Trauma Surgery Elective

Match: SF Match (program dependent)

National Organizations

• SCCM

• ACEP Critical Care Section

• EMRA Critical Care Committee

• SAEM Critical Care Interest Group

• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma

• American Trauma Society

• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

• Western Trauma Association

• Shock Society

Conferences

• ACEP, SAEM, EMRA CCM Section Meetings

• SCCM EM Section Meeting

• AAST

• EAST

• WTA

• AHA Resus Science Symposium

Fellowship aimed at doctors who are interested in both flight medicine and the administrative expertise of a HEMS medical director.

Duration: One year

https://emed.wisc.edu/education/fellowships/med-flight-fellowship/