The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Brown University aims to produce physicians who have the practical skills and knowledge to practice critical care medicine independently upon graduation. In order to accomplish this, we have created a fellowship with a robust schedule during the two years of training includes multiple different ICU experiences, an escalating degree of independence throughout training, and ample opportunity for practicing and perfecting invasive procedural skills.
Typical 2 Year Fellow Schedule
Schedule fulfills ACGME guidelines.
TMH = The Miriam Hospital
RIH = Rhode Island Hospital
NF = Night Float RIH MICUAreas of Expertise
- Sepsis
- Pulmonary Vascular Disease
- Extra-corporeal Life Support (ECLS) – ECMO center of excellence
- End-of-life Care in the ICU
- Post-surgical critical care
- Point-of-care Ultrasound
Overview of Hospitals
The Miriam Hospital
The Miriam is a 247-bed, acute care general hospital in Providence and is a major teaching site for the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The ICU is a 16-bed, combined medical/surgical/cardiac unit which provides a very broad educational experience with an emphasis on collaborative rounds with these varied services. In addition to the medically ill patients, cardiac patients in this unit provide extensive experience in cardiogenic shock, intra-aortic balloon pumps, hemodynamic monitoring, and pacing. Extensive experience with critically ill post-operative patients is also obtained here. Fellows also work with anesthesia in operating rooms to gain hands-on and practical airway experience outside of their ICU rotations.Rhode Island Hospital
A 721-bed tertiary care hospital with a broad spectrum of pulmonary and critical care diseases, it is the state’s largest hospital and the third largest hospital in New England. The 18-bed Medical Intensive Care Unit at Rhode Island Hospital has a high turnover of acutely ill patients with multi-system failure and was recognized by the National Coalition on Healthcare as one of the ten best in the country. It serves as a referral center for many hospitals throughout southern New England and is an ECMO center of excellence. Our MICU serves as the intensive care unit for Woman’s & Infants hospital, which provides the fellow with important experience with critically ill obstetric patients. There are numerous other specialty critical care units staffed by specialists in other divisions that provide elective opportunities as well, including a cardiothoracic ICU, neurology/neurosurgery ICU, trauma, surgical ICUs, and a coronary care unit. Our division also staffs a respiratory intermediate care unit that manages complex respiratory patients as well.