Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

Overview
The Fellowship in Surgical Critical Care, a joint program between Palmetto Health and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, began in July 2002. The accredited one-year program accepts one fellow each academic year. All applicants should be board eligible in General Surgery or have completed three years of general surgery training and have a letter from their program director providing assurances that the fellow may return to general surgery training following completion of the critical care fellowship.
Training
Care of the critically ill patient and procedures are performed under the supervision of the Program's faculty. Gradually increasing levels of responsibility are given to the fellow as their skill level improves and the fellow is deemed competent to independently provide care.

A weekly meeting with the Program Director monitors the fellow's progress through the curriculum. The fellow meets with the Program Director in an interview session bi-monthly to discuss performance, review clinical caseload, documentation and other pertinent discussion regarding the fellow's training, professional or personal issues.

Training Schedule
Rotation Schedule

Pulmonary 2 Months
Cardiology 1 Month
Renal 1 Month
Critical Care 8 Months

Goals And Objective
The mission of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program is to provide an educational environment to develop the skills for state-of-the-art support of human physiology under the stress of extreme illness, injury or surgery; provide compassionate and humanistic care to those individuals with critical surgical illness; provide an environment for the development of a program optimized for clinical basic scientists who will become leaders in the arena of multidisciplinary critical care medicine.

How To Apply
Applications are accepted up to October 1 during the year prior to starting the Fellowship. Interviews will be conducted in October. Formal acceptance into the Fellowship is done through NRMP. Deadlines may be obtained on their web site, www.nrmp.org .

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About Palmetto Health and The University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Palmetto Health is a South Carolina nonprofit public benefit corporation consisting of Palmetto Health Richland and Palmetto Health Baptist in Columbia and Easley. All three of our hospitals are highly respected, long-time members of the community dedicated to providing the best health care possible.

The University of South Carolina School of Medicine is a national leader in primary care medical education, and they also sponsor research focused primarily on South Carolina health care needs and provides a wide range of clinical care services to South Carolinians.

This information is reposted with thanks to Palmetto Health and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.