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An Inspired Curriculum for Critical Care Fellows

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Attendings | A CCM or specialty attending will present on a core topic (see Core Topics List). The attending is selected based on a pre-existing expertise on that specific knowledge area. Fellows will be provided relevant reading before hand to better prepare for these lectures.
Fellows | Jedi Lectures aim to prepare fellows to become future clinical educators by improving their skill sets as presenters while building their expertise in specific critical care concepts. Fellows will teach topics from the Core Critical Care topics list, providing their peers with additional board preparation. Attendings will assess each presentation on the ability of the presenter to present and simplify complex critical care topics, share relevant evidence, providing valuable feedback to enhance teaching abilities. Fellows, get ready for your transition from a Padawan to a Jedi Master of critical care education.
Guest Lecturers | A special guest, usually from an outside institution, will present on a core topic (see Core Topics List). These guests are invited based on remarkable expertise in that specific knowledge area. Fellows will be provided relevant reading beforehand to better prepare for these lectures. Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine faculty and residents from Inspira will also be invited to attend.
POCUS Masters | The POCUS lecture series focuses on expert review of critical care echocardiography and bedside assessment of acutely ill patients. While a significant portion is based on board content to prepare fellows to sit for the Critical Care Echo boards, a notable portion of this series will also include didactics on the utility of POCUS outside of this curriculum. Such topics will include systemic assessment of the hypoxic patient, the hypotensive patient, fluid responsiveness, venous congestion and optimizing for liberation from the ventilator. These didactics will supplement hands-on simulation training.
Fellows | The Morbidity and Mortality Lecture Series focuses on patient cases within the ICU, providing a platform for critical analysis and learning from adverse outcomes. Cases are assigned after being proposed to the education team, and all individuals involved in the patient’s care, including those from other specialty services, are invited to participate. Prior to the presentation, each lecturer’s mentor conducts a pre-review of the cases, ensuring valuable insights and constructive discussions for continuous improvement in patient care. Join us to reflect, learn, and enhance patient safety in the ICU. Each fellow will be assigned one M&M per year. These lectures will not be recorded.
Jared Ward | Shock Rounds utilizes select cases from the Atlanticare Cardiovascular ICU to educate fellows on critical concepts related to resuscitation and the management of critically ill patients in cardiogenic shock. This series includes in-depth reviews of echocardiography, coronary angiography, and mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices. Through interactive problem-solving, fellows will have the chance to interpret challenges and identify solutions for patients on MCS. Sessions will be led by Jared Ward and input received from cardiothoracic surgeons. Each fellow will assist in the preparation of a didactic portion of this lecture during their CTICU rotation.
Lindsey Glaspey | Management Rounds is an interactive lecture series that invites fellows to share their approach to challenging resuscitation scenarios, modeled after Emergency Medicine oral boards. Through expert feedback from attendings, senior fellows, and inclusion of relevant evidence, this series aims to enhance competency in difficult resuscitation situations and provide valuable insights to improve competency in fellow-led resuscitation.
First Year Fellows | First-year fellows will save exciting cases from their rotations and present it as case report. Presenters will work on being able to focus on and highlight key aspects of the case, and relevant evidence regarding discussed topics and conclude with a brief overview of the primary critical care topic relevant to the case.
Second Year Fellows | Critical Problem Solving follows a game show format designed to enhance problem-solving skills for fellows in critical care medicine. Second-year fellows will design and present a case in 5 to 7 aliquots of information, while 2 fellows and one attending will respond with their thought process towards solving the case. Each case includes diagnostic schemas, and interpretations of diagnostic results such as imaging to ventilator waveforms, and ends with a reveal of the final diagnosis, case resolution, and teaching pearls.
Fellows | Fellow Rounds is an informal and interactive lecture series that provides fellows with a platform to share interesting cases they encountered during their rotations, regardless of the rotation. Fellows will save interesting cases to Cerner as they encounter them, and will be cleared after each lecture. The format is relaxed, with no formal slides, and a focus on highlighting the key aspects of the case, including relevant labs and imaging, interventions, and teaching pearls. Attendings will also have the opprotunity to provide their input into these cases. The aim is for all fellows to benefit from these cases even if they are not directly involved in the care of these patients. These lectures are not recorded to protect patient information.
Jared Ward | (Micro) Skills Lab is an interactive lecture series that provides fellows with hands-on learning opportunities to improve their techniques with key ICU procedures. Utilizing simulation labs, attendees will learn and gain exposure to rare, high acuity low opportunity (HALO) procedures, as well as everyday procedures broken down to advance micro skill techniques.
Michael Bonk | Don’t Hold Your Breath is a comprehensive lecture series that provides CCM fellows with in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience related to managing patients on the ventilator. The didactic portion covers basic concepts such as waveform interpretation, troubleshooting emergencies and asynchrony, alternative ventilator modes, and support in breathing trials. The hands-on portion takes place bedside with patients on the ventilator, providing attendees with practical skills and experience to improve the management of patients on mechanical ventilation.
Fellows | CCM Fellows will be provided with a quiz, have 20 minutes to fill it out, after which a Fellow who has already reviewed the questions will go over explanations and attempt to explain key concepts in an easy-to-learn manner. Questions are primarily taken from the ATS and CHEST Question banks.
David Gerber | As part of our Beyond Medicine Series, Dr. David Gerber will present on topics relevant to research in Critical Care medicine, providing key insights into how to approach analysis of primary literature and how to approach original research. These analytical models will be directly utilized when interpreting the literature for our journal club sessions.
Michael Kouch | Dr. Kouch, along with the help of a few friends, will present on topics that extend beyond the medicine of critical care. He will share insights and considerations into the practice of critical care from a business and ethics standpoint and advice on generating income outside of clinical practice. There will also be opportunities to reflect on the challenges faced by attendings and fellows in and outside of clinical practice.