Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

Our Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program at the University of Minnesota is a one-year ACGME-accredited program open to physicians who have completed at least three clinical years in one of the following specialties: anesthesiology, emergency medicine (additional requirements), neurological surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, surgery, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery or urology.

We offer a comprehensive combination of clinical experiences and research opportunities for fellows to apply new advances in critical care.

Program Overview

This fellowship program accepts up to five fellows per year. Completion qualifies the fellow to meet the current criteria for admission to the Certificate of Added Competence examination given by the American Board of Surgery.

Our program provides invaluable opportunities including:

• In-depth exposure to the main principles of critical care in an intense clinical and research atmosphere encompassing the range of critical care problems related to surgical diseases
• The ability to function as a critical care surgeon at the staff level
• Experience in administrative issues related to management of an ICU
• The opportunity to conduct clinical and basic science research on a broad variety of interests, including treatments of sepsis, infectious diseases, acute lung injury, and cell and molecular biology of inflammation
• Participation in a formal lecture and reading program

Locations

As a surgical critical care fellow, you would be able to take advantage of clinical rotations at nearby sites in the Twin Cities metropolitan area: University of Minnesota Medical Center—a Division of Fairview (UMMC), North Memorial Medical Center (NMMC), Regions Hospital, and Fairview Southdale. These rotations encompass the range of critical care problems related to surgical disease.

At all sites—UMMC, NMMC, Regions Hospital, and Southdale—the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) are staffed by a complement of surgery residents who are assigned no other responsibilities. Full-time staff trained in critical care surgery make daily patient and teaching rounds, and they follow their own on-call schedule for night and weekend coverage. At UMMC, a staff anesthesiologist and an anesthesia resident also participate. Each of the SICUs admits more than 600 patients per year.

Electives at our core hospitals allow fellows to receive additional experience in pediatrics, trauma, echocardiography, neonatal critical care, pulmonary, and other areas of interest.

Frequent interaction, at regular didactic conferences and formal meetings as well as on a more impromptu basis, helps ensure open communication and diverse scholarship among the faculty at the University, Regions, North Memorial, and Southdale.

Our Fellows

Visa Sponsorship

The J-1 alien physician visa sponsored by the ECFMG is the preferred visa status for foreign national trainees in all UMN graduate medical education programs; therefore, the Division of Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery sponsors only J-1 visas. We do not sponsor H-1B visas. More information on the J-1 visa can be found on the UMN-GME webpage.