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Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

About the
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

The mission of the fellowship is to provide the clinical, educational, and administrative environment and resources for fellows to develop advanced proficiency in the management of critically ill surgical patients, to develop the qualifications necessary to supervise surgical critical care units, and to conduct scholarly activities in surgical critical care. The fellowship provides a broad based clinical experience and training in adult surgical critical care allowing qualification for board certification in surgical critical care.

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Program Accreditation and Directors

ACGME # 4422531027

Adult track: 2 positions, available through NRMP match, program code 1295442F0. 
Adult Burn track: 1 position, not through match 
Pediatric track: 1 position, not through match.

Program Director

Dr. Steven Tennenberg, Harper University Hospital
313-745-8773    |    stennenb@dmc.org

Associate Program Director (Burn-SCC)

Dr. Michael White, Detroit Receiving Hospital
313-993-2745   |   mwhite@med.wayne.edu   

Associate Program Director (Pediatric) 

Dr. Lydia Donoghue, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
313-831-3220    |   ldonoghu@med.wayne.edu

Program duration – 12 months

Requirements

Applicants should be board certified or eligible in general surgery or enrolled and having completed three years in an accredited general surgery residency. To apply, forward a personal statement, curriculum vitae, USMLE or equivalent scores, ABSITE scores, references and three letters of recommendation (including from current or most recent Program Director). Applications for the Adult Track and Burn-SCC Track should be submitted through the SAFAS website (https://safas.smapply.io). Applications for the Pediatric Track should be directed to Dr. Lydia Donoghue.

Contact:

Steven Tennenberg, M.D., Program Director
Dept. of Surgery
Harper Professional Office Building, Suite 400
4160 John R
Detroit, MI 48201

Phone: 313-745-8773 (Secretary Amber Wilson)
Fax: 313-745-1873
E-mail: stennenb@dmc.org

Affiliated Hospitals

  • Harper University Hospital (Adult)
  • Detroit Receiving Hospital (Adult)
  • Sinai-Grace Hospital (Adult)
  • Children’s Hospital of Michigan (Pediatric)
 

Curriculum

The primary clinical training is based in the adult surgical intensive care units of three Detroit Medical Center hospitals:

  • Harper University Hospital (HUH) – approx. 12 – 18 patient census, focused on cardiothoracic surgery (including ECMO), general surgery, vascular surgery, and other surgical subspecialties. Includes cancer patients in the ICU of Karmanos Cancer Institute
  • Detroit Receiving Hospital (DRH) – approx. 8 – 12 patient census, focused on trauma and acute care general surgery, and critically-ill burn patients.
  • Sinai-Grace Hospital (SGH) – approx. 12 – 18 patient census, focused on trauma, acute care general surgery, neurosurgery, and cardiothoracic surgery.

Faculty support at the sites include:

  • HUH – three surgical critical care faculty and three anesthesia critical care faculty, each discipline covers 50% of the time.
  • DRH – five surgical critical care faculty
  • SGH – three surgical critical care faculty

Elective experiences (2 months) in echocardiography (required elective, TTE and TEE), neuro ICU, MICU, pediatric SICU, hyperbaric therapy, interventional radiology, anesthesiology (airway management, intra-op hemodynamic monitoring), nephrology, and liver transplantation are available. An elective in trauma surgery is available. Opportunities for research and scholarly activities are available and encouraged.

Month 1 – SICU, Harper Hospital
Month 2 – Echocardiography, Harper Hospital (required elective)
Month 3 – SICU, Detroit Receiving Hospital 
Month 4 – SICU, Harper Hospital 
Month 5 – SICU, Sinai-Grace Hospital  
Month 6 – SICU, Harper Hospital 
Month 7 – SICU, Sinai-Grace Hospital
Month 8 – SICU, Harper Hospital 
Month 9 – SICU, Sinai-Grace Hospital
Month 10 – SICU, Harper Hospital 
Month 11 – Neuro ICU, Detroit Receiving Hospital 
Month 12 – Elective 

On call 

HUH: Three nights per month with weekends off. 
DRH: No call, some weekend rounding.
 SGH: No call or weekend rounding.

The curriculum is based on the ACGME program requirements for fellowship education in surgical critical care. A full didactic program of lectures, selected readings, journal club and M&M conferences is offered.

FCCS, ATLS, and ultrasound courses offered.

Independent reading and study is required in the following:

  • Critical Care of the Surgical Patient – DeckerMed
  • Critical care textbook of choice
  • Adult Multiprofessional Critical Care Review, SCCM
  • Self-Assessment in Multiprofessional Critical Care, SCCM

Salary: $62,595 (PGY4), $66,409 (PGY6) (2024-25 salaries)
Educational allowance: $2500 (in addition to salary)
Meal allowance: $600 (in addition to salary)
SCCM: Attendance at annual Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Congress (Jan/Feb, must be covered by educational allowance, additional funds available as well)
Vacation – 3 weeks
Fellowship starting date – August 1, 2025 (can accommodate July 1 for post-PGY3 general surgery residents in training)
Moonlighting allowed (permanent license required)

Interview Dates: May – August 2024 (Contact us for specific dates.) 

Match Timeline
March 1, 2024 – SAFAS applications open
July 3, 2024 – rank order list submission begins
Aug. 14, 2024, 9PM – deadline for rank order submission and certification
Aug 28, 2024 – Match Day

Navigating Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Successfully and Beyond (downloadable booklet)

Applicants

Applicants should be board certified or eligible in general surgery or enrolled and having completed three years in an accredited general surgery residency. To apply, forward a personal statement, curriculum vitae, USMLE or equivalent scores, ABSITE scores, references and three letters of recommendation (including from current or most recent Program Director). Applications for the Adult Track and Burn-SCC Track should be submitted through the SAFAS website (https://safas.smapply.io). Applications for the Pediatric Track should be directed to Dr. Lydia Donoghue.

Surgical Critical Care Fellowship (Adult Track) Program Overview - 2022



Fellowship Directors