Description

The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell offers a one-year Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Staten Island University Hospital, which is an ACS verified Level 1 Trauma Center and a regional Burn Center.

 This fellowship will focus on training in our surgical intensive care unit while also offering experience in the cardiothoracic, burn and neurocritical intensive care units. The daily census in each respective unit is 10 to 15 patients on average. There are six faculty in the departments of trauma, acute care surgery and surgical critical care who together assume educational and supervisory responsibilities for the fellow.

 We offer a robust educational program organized around a weekly critical care conference with evidence-based lectures covering the current literature and standard of care in the field of surgical critical care. There is a modern simulation center within the hospital that is used for training in a variety of critical care scenarios.

The fellow has the option to take a variety of surgery and critical care courses, both within and outside the institution. The department participates in weekly Department of Surgery morbidity and mortality (M&M) and Department of Trauma M&M conferences. In addition, the fellows participate in weekly research and administrative meetings and are mentored extensively in the transition from training to practice. Rotations available outside of the SICU are Burn, Ultrasound, Anesthesia, Neuro Critical Care, Medical ICU, CTU, Trauma, Acute Care Surgery.

Our fellows will be given a thorough training in the process of performing meaningful medical research in the field of trauma, acute care and surgical critical care. They will have support of research coordinators, nurse practitioners, an onsite statistician and a research fellow. An injury prevention coordinator is also available to assist with injury research and performance improvement projects.

Requirements

5 years of General Surgery training in the United States.