Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Program Overview

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center offers a 2‑year, ACGME‑accredited Critical Care Medicine Fellowship to develop broadly trained intensivists who can practice in any ICU setting. Our core values are:

  • Diversity of experiences and opinions: Our fellows receive excellent medical critical care training, but we place equal emphasis on their experiences in our specialty ICUs. Our fellows work with intensivists stemming from every adult critical care specialty, exposing them to the full breadth of perspective and approach to critical care medicine.
  • Integration: Every ICU and every intensivist, irrespective of parent specialty, belongs to a unified Department of Critical Care. This highly unusual organizational structure fosters exceptional collaboration, consistency and collegiality across our many ICUs, and creates a superior education environment for our fellows.
  • Teamwork: Our ability to manage extraordinarily sick and complex patients demands a highly functioning, multi-disciplinary care team. We look for fellows who are enthusiastic team players and who want to become exceptional team leaders.
  • Continuous improvement: We are never satisfied with the status quo, and we actively solicit fellow input to improve our program with each passing year.
  • Enjoying the ride: Critical care is a demanding profession. We nurture our excitement and enthusiasm by taking care of ourselves and each other.

Quick Facts

Positions/Year

3

Length

2 years

Accreditation

ACGME (Critical Care Medicine)

Primary Site

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI

Other Training Sites

Aurora Sinai Medical Center
Aurora Medical Center – Grafton

Night Coverage

MICU night rotations with in-house attending backup

Ultrasound

POCUS longitudinal curriculum; electives in advanced echo & TEE

Duty Hours

Shifts capped at 12 hours. No home call.

Electives

See below

Eligibility

IM or EM trained physicians

Visa

No visa sponsored at this time

Start Date

July 1st

Program NRMP number

1425614002

Program Highlights

  • Open to qualified Internal Medicine (IM) or Emergency Medicine (EM) trained physicians.
  • Every ICU is closed and staffed by intensivists who belong to a unified Department of Critical Care, ensuring consistent supervision, education standards, and fellow support.
  • Training in point‑of‑care ultrasonography with electives in advanced echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Fellows can become board-eligible in critical care echocardiography.
  • Training in basic and difficult airway management, surgical airway, and ICU bronchoscopy. The critical care team manages all airways outside of the OR and ER.
  • No shift (day or night) exceeds 12 hours; fellows provide some in‑house night coverage in the MICU, supported by in‑house intensivists.
  • Dedicated academic half-day. Fellows are freed from all clinical duties to attend.
  • Extensive ICU simulation curriculum.
  • Research, QI, and other projects supported by research faculty, faculty mentors, elective time, and scheduled meetings during didactic days.
  • Unopposed training. Our fellows are the only critical care fellows in our system.

Curriculum & Rotations

ROTATION

PG-4

PG-5

TOTAL

Orientation

2

-

2

MICU

12
4
16
CICU
-
4
4
MICU Nights
4
8
12
SICU
8
-
8
NICU
8
-
8
CVICU
4
4
8
Community ICU
-
8
8
Anesthesia (general and CV)
2
2
4
Trauma ICU
-
4
4
Palliative care
2
-
2
Advanced heart failure
2
-
2
Research/elective
8
20
28
TOTAL WEEKS
52
52
104

Electives

  • Nephrology
  • Pulmonary medicine
  • Infectious disease
  • Maternal‑fetal medicine
  • Palliative care
  • Acute care surgery
  • Thoracic surgery
  • Trauma critical care
  • Burn medicine
  • Advanced heart failure/heart transplant
  • Hepatology/liver transplant
  • Advanced echo/TEE
  • Radiology

Additional elective rotations are considered based on individual interest.

Didactics and Curriculum

Academic Half Day Schedule

Training Sites

Site
Beds
ICU Beds/Type
Notes
Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center (primary site)
700
126
5 closed ICUs
(medical, cardiac,
cardiothoracic, neuro,
surgical)
Largest cardiac &
cardiac surgical
program in WI;
ECMO; heart, liver,
kidney, pancreas and
bone marrow
transplant;
comprehensive stroke
center
Aurora Medical
Center – Grafton
157
16
Mixed med‑surg
Community hospital;
cardiac surgery; 24/7
intensivist staffing
Aurora Sinai Medical
Center
197
14
Mixed med‑surg
Urban/inner‑city;
24/7 intensivist
staffing

Our Faculty

Our Fellows

Critical Care Fellows [PDF]

Salary & Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • Comprehensive health coverage for fellows and eligible dependents.
  • Additional benefits per institutional GME policy.
  • Salary & Benefits Overview [PDF]

How to Apply

  • Eligibility: IM or EM trained physicians.
  • Application method, MyERAS.
  • NRMP Program Code: [1787142F0].
  • NRMP Institution Code: [1787].
  • Application timeline: Application accepted and reviewed (August), Interviews offered (September), Interviews conducted (October-November). Interview format: Virtual

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