Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Overview

** We will have one fellowship position available for July 2025 only via ERAS applications in Summer of 2024. **

The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program affiliated with Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, and the Miriam Hospital offers a 1-2 year training program for applicants looking for robust critical care training.

The goal of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship is to prepare board eligible or certified internal medicine or emergency medicine physicians for careers in clinical or academic Critical Care Medicine. In all aspects of the educational program, the Fellow is encouraged to develop an attitude of scholarship and the intellectual curiosity to remain in the informational forefront of the discipline throughout his or her professional lifetime. This program is specifically designed to provide the basic and clinical knowledge to effectively care for critically-ill patients, to develop the ability to perform relevant invasive procedures, to develop the skills and credentials necessary to pursue a career in academic medicine, and to develop the skills needed to lead a critical care unit.

One to two fellowship positions are offered each year for training in Critical Care Medicine. Additional years for research training are encouraged. Applications for fellowship are accepted ONLY through ERAS (the Electronic Residency Application Service).

Eligible candidates for the 2-year fellowship include graduates of ACGME-accredited residencies in Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine. Eligible candidates for the 1-year fellowship include previous graduates of an approved ACGME-accredited subspecialty fellowship of Internal Medicine.

If you’re looking to find out what Rhode Island has to offer for your time outside of the hospital, please visit the Life in RI page or the Internal Medicine Residency’s Why Providence? page.

Basic Information For Applicants

• Sponsored By: Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital (primary teaching site)
• Program Size: 3 fellows = 1-2 open positions per year.
• NRMP: Critical Care Medicine is now participating in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
• ERAS: Applications are only accepted via ERAS. Earliest dates for applications are July, latest date is December. The interview process goes from September to January.
• USMLE: Step 1 is required
• ECFMG: Is required if applicant is foreign medical graduate
• Citizenship: US Citizen, US permanent resident and J-1 applicants are accepted
• EM Applicants: Emergency medicine applicants require 6 months of pre-requisite residency training in internal medicine rotations. If an emergency medicine graduate enters a critical care medicine program with less than the prerequisite clinical education, he or she will need to complete the remaining months at the beginning of fellowship. These additional months will not add to the overall 24-month training time but will reduce months otherwise available for research or electives.
• Stipends and Benefits: First year fellows enter program at PGY4 level, and salaries are commensurate with their post graduate level. Funding is available and can be arranged for fellows to travel to and attend educational conferences.
• Contact: Kerri Carvalho, Fellowship Coordinator, KCarvalho4@Lifespan.org