Critical Care Medicine

Curriculum Plan for Residents in Transition to Discipline

Rotation PriorityRequiredWhen PossibleOptional
Burn ICU TTD1 , TTD2 , TTD3 , TTD4 , TTD5 , F1 , F2 , F4 F3 F5
Critical Care Medicine TTD1 , TTD2 , TTD3 , F1 , F2 TTD4 , TTD5 , F3 , F4 , C1 , C2 , C3 , C4 , C5 , C6 , C12 , C13 C9 F5 , C7 , C8 , C10 , C11 , TTP1
Critical care Echocardiography C7
General Anesthesia TTD4 , C4 , C5 , C13 TTD5 , F2 , C7 , C10 TTD2 , C1 , C2 , C3 , C6
General Internal Medicine TTD4 , F1 TTD5 , F3 , C6 , C11 , C12 , C13 TTD2 , F2 , F4 , C1 , C2 , C7 F5
Pulmonary Medicine/Interventional Pulmonology C1 TTD4 , TTD5 , C6 F2 , F3 , F4 , F5 , C4 , C11 , C12
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TTD1 Assessing and providing initial management for new patients admitted to the ICU or seen in consultation
TTD2 Initiating and leading resuscitation for hemodynamically unstable patients
TTD3 Coordinating patient care and delegating tasks in the ICU setting
TTD4 Transferring clinical information between health care providers at handover
TTD5 Providing routine updates to patients or families
F1 Evaluating, stabilizing, and managing patients presenting with common ICU conditions
F2 Evaluating and managing uncomplicated and/or routine patients requiring mechanical ventilation
F3 Teaching, supervising, and leading junior physicians and other health care professionals
F4 Identifying and providing care for patients’ and their family’s needs around the end-of-life
F5 Co-leading multidisciplinary teams
C1 Managing patients with respiratory failure
C2 Managing patients with multisystem organ dysfunction
C3 Managing the resuscitation of critically ill patients
C4 Performing Procedures: Airway management
C5 Performing procedures: Vascular access
C6 Performing procedures: Chest tube, paracentesis, lumbar punctures, and temporary transvenous pacemaker insertion
C7 Performing Point-of-Care ultrasound
C8 Caring for patients with prolonged ICU stay and/or organ support-dependent critical illness and their primary caregiver(s)
C9 Identifying, assessing, and managing potential organ donors
C10 Managing the transport of patients who are critically ill
C11 Leading daily clinical rounds
C12 Supervising, assessing, and coaching junior colleagues
C13 Debriefing routine resuscitations and critical events
TTP1 Running an ICU service