Critical Care Anesthesiology Fellowship

We utilize the San Francisco Match (https://www.sfmatch.org/) and ask all interested applicants to apply via the SF Match’s Central Application Service (CAS). Please complete and submit the CAS application form online and provide three letters of reference.

In-cycle interviews will take place February through May for positions starting the following year. On rare occasions we reserve a second fellowship position “outside of the match” for applicants that decided to pursue critical care off-cycle to SF-Match. Please email us for more information if you are interested in an off-cycle application.

Please direct application process questions to:

Brandon Russell, GME Program Manager
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
600 Highland Ave, B6/319
Madison, WI 53792-3272
russell2@wisc.edu

Our fellows rotate through our intensive care units in 2-4 week blocks, with 9-months of total ICU experiences.  A typical balance of ICU exposure includes approximately 2-months in the surgical/trauma ICU, 3 months in the medical ICU, 3 months in the cardiothoracic ICU and 1 month in the neurointensive care unit.  We have additional flexibility to work-in elective or dedicated ICU time in the non-surgical cardiology and neurology/neurosurgery ICUs.

Fellows participate in our active simulation program with events and training in echocardiography, intubation, medical emergencies and ECMO. Fellows are given time to attend one national conference annually, local/regional echocardiography conferences and the annual UW Arndt Airway Conference.

Fellows expand their independence in patient care and medical education throughout the year. Fellows gain teaching experience with didactic responsibilities within the Anesthesiology residency program and in the SICU, MICU and CTICU. Further, we offer guided research experiences and mentorship to enable presentation at our Department’s Grand Rounds Lecture Series.

Each week, our department hosts anesthesiology lectures, anesthesiology grand rounds and two echo conferences.   The critical care groups also have weekly conferences, specific to each unit.  The critical care lecture series provides the core background knowledge to succeed in subspecialty certification.  Finally, we provide a month-to-month guided reading / topic-based curriculum that combines textbook chapters with core review articles and landmark manuscripts in our field.

We offer excellent hands-on and didactic training in echocardiography (TTE and TEE) and pleural sonography.  Fellows will be well equipped to board certify in critical care echocardiography (CCEeXAM via NBE), which is expected, and in TEE (Basic PTEeXAM) via NBE, if desired.

Outside of the ICU, electives are completed in Transplant Infectious Disease, Transfusion Medicine, Nephrology, Echocardiography & Chest Radiography. The fellow will have additional elective time to pursue research and QI activities, and for an additional elective of their choosing.