Curriculum
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Basic Science Series
Discuss core basic science principles that underlie the pathophysiology of critical care medicine.
Berger Didactics
Organized and led by John Berger, MD, this conference is a twice monthly interactive conference for the critical care and cardiology fellows focuses on the pathophysiology encountered in the medical and surgical patients seen in the CICU.
CCM Board Review
Monthly interactive sessions led by Kitman Wai, MD, where fellows compete to correctly answer and explain board-review-type questions.
CCM Mathletics
Lead by Sonali Basu, MD, this is a recurring interactive session where the fellows have the opportunity to review physiologic principles by responding to questions individually on a white board.
CCM Morbidity and Mortality
Review morbidity and Mortality Cases from the PICU and discuss best practices, standard of care and best evidence. Additionally, the conference focuses on 1-2 cases (selected by the M&M board of directors, comprised of fellows and faculty) to thoroughly evaluate from a quality & systems improvement perspective.
CCM Prof Rounds
Presenting fellow select a particularly complex case from their clinical experience and collaborate with a faculty advisor to present it. During the presentation, the fellow highlights key moments to pose clinical questions to the attending faculty, who then share their insights and strategies for managing similar scenarios.
Christi Rounds
Christi Corriveau, MD, MEd, leads this quarterly session discussing bedside and clinical management pearls.
CICU Book Club
Monthly chapter discussion led by Melissa Yildirim, MD, that reviews lesion specific cardiac physiology and bedside application.
CICU Conference
Led by Robyn (Bao) Puente, MD, and CICU attending physicians, this twice-monthly conference features case-based discussions and journal club sessions focused on cardiac critical care.
Critical Communication Encounters
Led by Amy Wolfe, MD, MEd, this quarterly conference aims to educate our fellows in end-of-life care and mastering challenging communication encounters including delivering bad news, conducting end of life discussions and addressing ethical dilemmas using a mix of simulation and didactic sessions.
Ethics
Led by Vanessa Madrigal, MD, head of the Ethics department at CNMC, fellows review ethical principles and discuss challenging ethical cases encountered in the ICU.
Fellow Rounds
A twice weekly clinical discussion on difficult cases, bedside management and review of physiology.
Health Equity
These quarterly sessions ensure critical care topics are discussed and approached from a health equity framework to ensure quality care is provided for all our critically ill patients.
Journal Club
A monthly fellow led session directed at answering clinical based questions using recent literature. Fellows pair with a faculty advisor for each session.
Mega Simulation Curriculum
Led by Divya Gupta, MD and Mekela Whyte-Nesfield, MD, this half-day, bootcamp style, level specific curriculum provides hands-on application of core critical care topics. THe Mega Simulation Curriculum complements the biweekly in-situ simulations in both the PICU and the CICU.
Neuro-Critical Care Conference
This session brings together our ICU based neurology team and the critical care faculty and fellows to discuss cases and topics of interest.
PEM & PCCM Conference
Bi-monthly run conference where critical care and emergency medicine fellows collaborate to discuss common shared emergencies utilizing case review, literature review, video review and simulation. Faculty guide as mentors and moderators.
PICU Book Club
Monthly discussion of a chapter in a critical care text that utilizes adult learning theory to encourage conversation around advanced physiology topics.
Pollack Rounds
Murray Pollack, MD, founding father of Critical Care Medicine, holds monthly discussions with fellows highlighting study design, research practice and critical analysis of literature.