Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
Program Overview
The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Texas Tech Health El Paso equips fellows with the expertise to:
- Deliver exceptional surgical and trauma critical care.
- Conduct and disseminate impactful research.
- Educate residents and students effectively.
- Lead and manage critical care units with confidence.
Key Competencies
Over the one-year fellowship, participants will:
- Acquire the knowledge needed to excel in the surgical critical care certifying exam.
- Gain hands-on experience managing surgical intensive care units and trauma patients.
- Develop research skills, including formulating questions, analyzing data, and presenting findings.
- Prepare and deliver a clinical scientific abstract and a one-hour CME presentation.
Career Readiness
Graduates will be fully prepared to:
- Serve as surgical critical care attendings.
- Publish research in medical or surgical journals.
Training Components
- Primary Rotations: A minimum of eight months in surgical critical care (as per ACGME requirements).
- Elective Rotations: Options include Cardiac ICU, Neuro ICU, Trauma, or PICU.
- Simulation Training: Focused on end-of-life care for ventilated patients.
- Conferences: Monthly trauma morbidity and mortality discussions with root cause analysis and Clavien-Dindo classification.
- Didactics: Material on identifying and addressing near-miss events.