Program facts

Comprehensive Training in All Facets of Critical Care

The Critical Care Fellowship is a two-year fellowship offered by Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center. The program has received ACGME accreditation.

Three candidates are accepted to the Critical Care Fellowship each year.

Overview

The Critical Care Fellowship program:

• Open to qualified IM or EM trained physicians.
• Minimum 6 months of MICU/CICU (primarily at St Luke’s, with rotations to Sinai and/or Grafton in year 2).
• Minimum 2 months of CVICU, SICU and NeICU rotations, with option for additional rotations and advanced training in year 2.
• Every ICU is staffed by the Aurora Critical Care Service with full accountability to the program and trainees.
• Training in point of care ultrasonography, with electives in advanced echo and TEE
• Training in basic and difficult airway management, surgical airway and ICU bronchoscopy. We staff the acute airway team at every hospital.
• No shift (day or night) exceeds 12 hours. Fellows provide some in-house night coverage in the MICU, supported by in-house attending intensivists.
• Extensive elective options, including:
  • Acute care surgery
  • Advanced echo/TEE
  • Advanced heart failure/heart transplant
  • Anesthesiology
  • Burn medicine
  • Infectious disease
  • Maternal fetal medicine
  • Nephrology
  • Pulmonary medicine
  • Palliative care
  • Radiology
  • Thoracic surgery
  • Transplant hepatology
  • Trauma critical care

The Aurora Critical Care Service was established in 2009; now 50+ intensivists in a collaborative, multidisciplinary practice (trained in IM, EM, anesthesia, surgery, neurology) and has 19 advanced practice providers.

The Hospitals:

Aurora St Luke’s Medical Center (primary site)

• 700-bed quaternary referral hospital and the largest hospital in Wisconsin
• 126 ICU beds in 5 closed specialty ICUs (medical, cardiac, cardiothoracic, neuro, surgical)
• Largest and busiest cardiac and cardiac surgical program in Wisconsin
• Heart, liver, kidney, pancreas and bone marrow transplant programs
• ECMO referral center
• Comprehensive stroke center

Aurora Grafton Medical Center

157 bed suburban hospital. 16 bed mixed med-surg ICU with an active cardiac surgery program, and 24:7 intensivist staffing.

Aurora Sinai Medical Center

197 bed urban hospital serving inner-city and Downtown Milwaukee. 14-bed mixed med-surg ICU with 24:7 intensivist staffing.

Program mission statement and program aims

Mission statement:

We train future intensivists to provide state-of-the-art multidisciplinary care to critically ill and injured patients across the spectrum of adult critical care medicine. We foster excellence, diversity, inclusivity, equity and well-being in our faculty and trainees.

Program aims:

As a multispecialty critical care program, our faculty intensivists stem from every adult critical care specialty and practice under one administrative umbrella. We strive to provide a consistent and unified approach to critical care across our ICUs, while valuing the diverse experiences, skills and knowledge that our faculty bring to patient care. We believe that critical care is a team sport and we continually teach and learn from each other. These values inform our approach to education, and we expose trainees to the breadth of adult critical care taught by people who have different perspectives and approaches to care. We value collegiality and continuous learning. Our goal is to matriculate exceptionally well-rounded intensivists who can competently practice in any adult critical care environment, whether in the community or in academia.

Salary & benefits

The Aurora Critical Care Fellowship offers a competitive salary, comprehensive health coverage for you and your eligible dependents and many other perks.

Salary & benefits overview [PDF]