Welcome
Thank you for your interest in our Critical Care Anesthesiology Program! We are very proud of our team and program here at the University of Wisconsin. We have an excellent team of academic physicians who value clinical, bedside medicine while still taking time for academic productivity. We engage regularly with residents and fellows from anesthesiology and other fields, and our ICU group is regularly honored with teaching awards from the residents. We are proud to have a collegial, supportive and collaborative environment here at the University of Wisconsin, and we are proud of the care we provide for our patients.
ACGME Accredited
Our Critical Care Fellowship is ACGME accredited for both 1-year and 2-year training programs where fellows receive broad training in medical, surgical and cardiothoracic critical care, including extracorporeal device support (e.g. ECMO and VADs) and perioperative care for solid organ transplantation including liver, heart and lung transplants.
Clinical Practice
Fellows are integrally involved in all of the intensive care units and develop graduated responsibility through the year, gaining independence and comfort managing all aspects of critical illness. Fellows are expected to lead daily teaching rounds and participate in didactic sessions both as learner and teacher. We have excellent exposure to the full breadth of critical care and our practice is team-oriented, supportive and collaborative between disciplines.
Midwest Charm
Madison is an excellent mid-sized city of just over 250,000 people, located in between two lakes. The capital and campus are centered alongside Lake Mendota and the area is beautiful. Winters are gorgeous and white with outdoor activities all around town (and many cozy activities and inside events for the cold-blooded!). The capital area has great shopping and restaurants and the campus has a wonderful Big-10 feel with Fall Football occurring right near the hospital area. Check out our career page for more information and videos about our programs and Madison.
Expanded Program
We immensely value multidisciplinary critical care and love to train intensivists from other disciplines. We are excited to announce we are now approved through the ABA, to train EM applicants!
Thank you for considering our Critical Care Anesthesiology program for your fellowship training!
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Application Guidelines
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
Fellowship Rotations and Educational Conferences
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.
Download Recommended Critical Care Reading List
This is a frequently updated list of recommended readings, which is curated by Critical Care Fellowship Director, Dr. Micah Long. Updated March 5, 2023. *Recommendations’ are not endorsements.
Brittney Bernardoni, MD
Associate Fellowship Director
Critical Care Faculty
Robert Arrigo, MD
Christopher Cassara, MD
Gozde Demiralp, MD
John Dollerschell, MD
Stuart Feichtinger, MD
Laura Hammel, MD
Micah Long, MD, FCCM
Justin Tawil, MD
Emergency Medicine – Critical Care Faculty
Brittney Bernardoni, MD
Joshua Glazer, MD
Madison is consistently rated one of the best places in the country to live and play. Madison, a vibrant, picturesque city with a population of just over 250,000, is the capital of Wisconsin and the home of the University of Wisconsin.
Download Department Profile
Learn more about the Department of Anesthesiology and it's commitment to clinical excellence, exceptional education, diversity, equity and inclusion, and "All Ways Forward," in this 38 page brochure.