Critical care presents exciting healthcare opportunities and challenges as each critical care team member brings knowledge and skills specific to the chosen discipline. Undergraduate students within healthcare disciplines are engaged in gaining mastery of profession-specific content while deciding the focal direction for their professional practice.
Multiple disciplines are represented within the critical care team. Critical care practice can be visualized as a tree, with each limb representing a discipline or medical specialty. Major branches include anesthesiology, neurology, nursing, pediatrics, pharmacy, pulmonology, and surgery.
For a list of critical care medicine fellowship programs, access the List of Programs by Specialty on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) website.
The United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties maintains information on fellowships for those interested in neuroscience critical care training programs.
Online Courses
Virtual Critical Care Rounds (VCCR): Adult is designed to better prepare students, residents, and fellows to contribute to the diagnosis and management of the critically ill patient during their intensive care unit rounds.
Virtual Critical Care Rounds (VCCR): Pediatric is designed to better prepare students, residents, and fellows to contribute to the diagnosis and management of the critically ill pediatric patient during their pediatric intensive care unit rounds.