Surgical Critical Care Curriculum
Curriculum Overview
A longitudinal didactic curriculum and self-learning goals will be completed under the guidance of board-certified surgical and medical/pulmonary/anesthesia critical care faculty. This intense, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional approach will provide critical care educational exposure that includes the procedural and administrative skills necessary to care for critically ill patients, manage intensive care units, teach educational curricula, and conduct quality critical care research.
Two critical care training tracks are offered, with one fellow accepted into each track per year: Surgical Critical Care and Burn-Surgical Critical Care
Surgical Critical Care (SCC) track includes rotations in:
- Surgical ICU (SICU) - 4 to 5 months
- Burn ICU (BICU) - 2 months
- Ultrasound/Anesthesia – 2 weeks
- Mayo- Phoenix Medical-Surgical ICU - 3 months
- Elective rotation - 1 month. Electives include thoracic surgery, Trauma surgery, Hepatobiliary surgery, Burn surgery, transplant ECMO (Norton Thoracic Institute), neurocritical care (Barrow Neurosciences Institute), pediatric ICU (Phoenix Children’s Hospital).
Burn-Surgical Critical Care (BCC) track includes rotations in:
- Burn ICU (BICU) - 6 months
- Surgical ICU (SICU) - 2 months
- Ultrasound - 1 month
- Mayo- Phoenix Medical-Surgical ICU- 2 months
- Elective rotation
Upon successful completion of the surgical critical care fellowship, trainees are eligible to take the American Board of Surgery’s Surgical Critical Care Certifying Examination.
Rotations
Valleywise Rotations
Fellows rotations consist of the SICU, Burn Center (Burn ICU) and Ultrasound. Furthermore, for our fellows, the many facets of trauma and emergency-acute care surgery, as well as significant exposure to burn surgery will be provided in order to give each SCC fellow the opportunity to maintain their surgical skills and allow long-term flexibility with job opportunities as a board-certified surgeon and surgical intensivist.
Mayo Rotation
Mayo Clinic Hospital (Arizona) Critical Care Unit, a private, highly specialized 244-bed healthcare facility. This rotation allows exposure to cardiothoracic surgery, solid organ transplant, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and complex medical-surgical critically ill patients.
Educational Schedule
Weekly
Tuesday: Grand Rounds and Surgical Morbidity and Mortality, Burn Multidisciplinary conference
Wednesday: SICU-Trauma conference
Thursday: SICU multidisciplinary conference
Friday: SICU Morbidity & mortality
Monthly
Fellows participate in monthly Dept. of Surgery peer review, Trauma PI, Peer and QI; Burn Peer review.
Quarterly
Fellows Journal Club
Our educational program also includes quality improvement training and mentoring and hands-on research and manuscript preparation.
