From traditional lectures by world-renowned experts to hands-on simulator training sessions, our educational program is high yield, innovative, and extensive. Key components of the curriculum include:
- Essentials of Critical Care Lecture Series
These lectures are organized by organ system and are given year-round by faculty within the division as well as from other subspecialties.
- Case Conferences
These occur weekly either as morbidity and mortality or as clinicopathological conferences. Fellows participate in presentation and discussion as do colleagues from the Departments of Radiology and Pathology and the Division of Pulmonary Medicine. The innovative audience-response system keeps everyone involved.
- Ultrasound Training Sessions
These sessions provide fellows with the essential training to perform ultrasound-based procedures and perform and interpret focused ultrasound examinations of the chest, heart, abdomen, and blood vessels.
- Simulator Training Sessions
These sessions train fellows to manage a wide variety of complex case scenarios and introduce them to devices used for difficult airway management and other emergent procedures.
- Case-Based Core Topics Series
This monthly series provides fellows with key guidelines and articles to review, and then challenges them to put the evidence into practice using interactive case scenarios.
- Clinical Research Lecture Series
A multi-session course in basic clinical research design, study interpretation including concerns for bias and confounding, data interpretation and presentation, basic statistical methods and IRB submissions.
- Weekly Research Meetings
Fellows involved in clinical research take part in these weekly meetings with our research group.
- CoBaTrICE Sessions
Einstein/Montefiore is one of the first critical care fellowship programs to embrace the SCCM-endorsed Competency Based Training program in Intensive Care medicine for Europe and other regions.
- Journal Clubs and Board Reviews
Monthly sessions that are facilitated by key clinical faculty members.
- Critical Care Grand Rounds
Invited experts provide updates on emerging clinical research and advanced treatment modalities.
- Morning Chief of Service Rounds
Daily interhospital teaching rounds via videoconferencing provide an overview of the clinical and administrative issues facing a large interdisciplinary critical care system.
- Greater New York Hospital Association Conferences
Several times a year fellows attend 1-3 day conferences on topics such as critical care controversies, cardiothoracic critical care, and advanced ultrasound techniques.