Neurocritical Care Fellowship

Rotation Schedule

Block Rotations include but are not limited to the following:

• Foundations of Neurocritical Care Bootcamp
• • Neurosciences ICU (Core)
• • Neuroanesthesia and Advanced Airway Management
• • Medical ICU
• • ICU Epileptology and Electroencephalography (EEG)
• • CICU/SICU
• • Neuroradiology and Transcranial Doppler
• • Elective (Neurointervention, Neurorehab, Research, Ethics, etc.)

Procedural and Monitoring Training

Fellows gain hands-on experience with:

• Airway management and ventilator strategies
• Central and arterial line placement
• Flexible bronchoscopy
• Bedside ultrasonography
• Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring and EVD management
• Brain oximetry and multimodal neuromonitoring
• Continuous EEG and neurotelemetry interpretation

The Importance of Research

• Helps to fulfill the competency requirement of "practice-based learning"
• Helps our quality assessment
• Helps us to serve our patients better and with more treatment options
• Teaches Residents how to achieve these goals in their future practices

Residents, fellows, and faculty involved in required GME scholarly activities receive guidance from the Center for Academic Research Excellence (CARE) through the Clinical Academic Research team, comprised of an Academic Research Mentor, a Project Coordinator, and a Regulatory Coordinator. In addition, the center includes a group of biostatisticians, a health economist, and a medical editor.

CARE assists residents and faculty with all types of scholarly activities (case studies, QI projects and research studies), from study design and protocol development, to data analysis and poster, presentation or manuscript preparation.

Our fellows are active contributors to the academic mission.

Through the Center for Academic Research Excellence (CARE), you'll receive:

• Individualized mentorship from research faculty
• Help with IRB, data analysis, and medical writing
• Support for abstracts, posters, and manuscripts

Fellows are encouraged to present at national meetings including NCS, AAN, SCCM, and AANEM.

All fellows are certified in:

• Emergency Neurologic Life Support (ENLS)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS)

In addition, fellows will complete training to become ENLS and FCCS instructors.

The fellowship will be open to applicants with internal medicine, emergency medicine, neurology, neurosurgery residency training or critical care fellowship training. The Neurocritical Care training fellowship may last up to 24 months. Fellows who have a previous fellowship in Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Critical Care, Surgical Critical Care and Anesthesia Critical Care will be able to undergo a 12 month fellowship training curriculum.

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Sample Resident Agreement

Eligibility and Selection Policy

We'll Take Care of You

Uniforms:
Residents receive two white jackets for their year in fellowship. Scrubs are provided in each location's OR locker room if required.

Meals:
Residents have free meals while on duty and access to physician lounge.

Parking
Designated physician parking is free.

Meals:
Residents have access to the physician lounge when on duty.

Physician Wellbeing

For more information on the many benefits offered across all programs, click here.