Vanderbilt Anesthesiololgy
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Overview
Vanderbilt University’s Department of Anesthesiology offers a one-year multidisciplinary, ABA/RRC-approved fellowship in critical care medicine. Our ACGME certified fellowship is structured to meet the needs of individuals who have completed a core residency in anesthesiology/surgery in the United States medical system, and who seek additional training and certification in Critical Care Medicine. Training of critical care fellows has been ongoing since 1996.
The ABA requires fellows to complete 12 months of consecutive training for certification in Critical Care Medicine. Of these 9 months are to be spent in the intensive care units taking care of critically ill patients.
Didactics
Teaching will occur through clinical exposure, multidisciplinary daily rounds, weekly fellows’ conferences, journal clubs and reading groups. The weekly conference will be conducted in association with the surgical critical care program, covering a comprehensive curriculum as recommended by the Residency Review Committee for anesthesiology and the A.C.G.M.E.
Fellows will be expected to participate and present at these regularly scheduled conferences. Critical Care and additional subspecialty and interdisciplinary conferences are held at least weekly in each of the core units. In addition, as described above, a major function of the fellow is the direct supervision of less experienced individuals. The fellow will be expected to teach Critical Care principles and skills to house staff and students in all the core units, and they will be instructors of Fundamentals of Critical Care Support (FCCS).
The fellows will be expected to complete an academic research project, which will be presented at a national meeting and/or published in a peer-reviewed journal.
The fellow will gain experience in administration of the ICU.
The faculty consists of physicians, all fellowship trained in critical care. They are specialists whose primary clinical backgrounds are from anesthesiology, surgery or internal medicine.
To provide a board-eligible anesthesiologist/surgeon with 12 months of advanced clinical training to develop the knowledge and skill to deliver comprehensive critical care either in a primary, collaborative or consultative capacity. In addition to care of critically ill patients, fellows will be mentored to become good teachers and administrators.
Letter from the Program Director
Methods
Fellows will have appropriately supervised clinical exposure, taking advantage of the various units in the hospital. Critical care specialists whose primary clinical backgrounds are from anesthesiology, pediatrics, surgery and internal medicine/pulmonary critical care supervise fellows. The anesthesiology critical care program director remains responsible overall and is also directly involved in fellow training.
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Liza Weavind, M.D. Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Director, Critical Care Fellowship Phone: 615-343-6268 Email: lisa.weavind@vanderbilt.edu |
Research
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