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Fellowship in Multi-Disciplinary Advanced Hospital Medicine
This program is designed as a one-year Fellowship in hospital medicine for family medicine physicians, during which time Fellows will be involved in multi-disciplinary approach disease management, and will function on a team with physicians and other acute care providers.
Teamwork is essential to providing total care for the acutely ill patient, and so Fellows will be trained as team leaders coordinating the care of an acutely ill medically complex in-patient population. Strong emphasis will be placed upon general internal medicine and multidisciplinary critical care, including the management of cardiac, medical, surgical and trauma patients. Fellows will be involved in the intensive care management of patients in the Medical ICU, Surgical ICU and Pediatric ICU. While on the general medical service, fellows will follow ICU patients on a longitudinal basis.
All participants will successfully complete ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) and FCCS (Fundamentals of Critical Care Support) courses, which are held on campus. ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) and ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics) are also available on site.
Training in procedures, techniques and management of inpatient hospital emergencies are emphasized in the program. There is also a strong emphasis placed on bedside procedures, such as central line placement, arterial line placement as well as endotracheal intubation, lumbar punctures, conscious sedation, thoracostomy tube insertion, thoracentesis, paracenthesis and other procedures which a hospital-based physician should be capable of performing competently. Basic ventilator management is obtained, and the Hospital Medicine Fellows will also participate in the organization and delivery of didactic lectures for family medicine residents and medical students.
We’re committed to excellence in multi-disciplinary hospital medicine, and graduates of our Fellowship are currently successful full time hospitalists in a variety of settings.
Our Fellows will, on completion of this program, be able to function as generalist hospitalists in the acute care environment, providing service in adult medicine and medical management of the surgical patient. This training also prepares our Fellows for an eventual career in academic medicine, if desired.
For further information:
Vincent Nicolias, M.D.
Director of Critical Care
Email: vince.nicolias@crhs.net
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