The Duke Critical Care Medicine Fellowship is a 1-year advanced fellowship through Pathways A and C. Applicants must be completing or have already completed a minimum of 2 years of an ABIM subspecialty fellowship, are ABIM board-certified or board-eligible for that subspecialty, and desire a career that combines the subspecialty with critical care medicine. For example, critical care cardiology is a popular route. The Duke Critical Care Medicine Fellowship is not a 2-year program.
Pathway A: Applicants go to a 1-year critical care medicine fellowship via a minimum 2-year ABIM certified subspecialty fellowship.
Pathway B: Applicants go directly to a 2-year critical care medicine fellowship.
Pathway C: Applicants go to a 1-year critical care medicine fellowship via a minimum 2-year ABIM certified advanced general medicine fellowship that includes at least 6 months ICU time.
The Duke Critical Care Medicine Fellowship supports Pathways A and C.
Training and Curriculum
Our 1-year, clinical program trains fellows to become experts in critical care and leaders in medicine through a rigorous curriculum across range of intensive care disciplines and specialized rotations in interventional pulmonary and pulmonary vascular disease. Fellows have some flexibility to build their schedule to their clinical niche within the ACGME-mandated guidelines for critical care fellowship completion.
Fellows will spend 6 months in the medical ICU, 3 months in non-medical ICU's, and 2 months in elective rotations.
Clinical Curriculum
Fellows will spend a total of 24 weeks in medical ICU's between Duke University Hospital and Duke Regional Hospital. 12 weeks will be spent in the non-medical ICU's of Duke University Hospital. Eight weeks are dedicated to pulmonary procedures, pulmonary vascular disease, and electives.
Training Sites
Duke University Hospital Medical ICU
This 32-bed, quaternary care medical ICU at the flagship site is staffed by critical care fellows and pulmonary critical care fellows 24 hours a day 7 days a week. In this busy unit fellows lead rounds, triage admissions, and supervise trainees. Fellows will gain significant experience in veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, conventional mechanical ventilation, and invasive hemodynamic monitoring. Fellows will also be expected to become competent in airway management, bronchoscopy, and pleural procedures.
Duke Regional ICU
In this 22-bed mixed medical and surgical ICU, fellows work with an attending physician and advanced care providers to care for a variety of conditions in a community hospital setting.
Schedule
| Monday | Journal Club, Health Disparities Journal Club |
| Tuesday | PCCM Fellows Didactic Series |
| Wednesday | MICU Case Conference, Critical Care Medicine Didactic Series |
| Thursday | Critical Care Grand Rounds, ECMO Grand Rounds |
Division Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Associate Program Director, Critical care Medicine Fellowship Program
Program Director, Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
Program Coordinator
(919)-668-4289
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Instructor
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine
