The ACGME-accredited Anesthesia Critical Care Program at UTMB, the oldest medical school in Texas, has an extraordinary faculty that promotes collegial and patient-centered care. Our program, whose alumni are practicing nationwide, has been accredited since 1995. Fellows embarking on a career in academics or in private practice benefit from the comprehensive and innovative training program we offer. In addition to the more traditional Anesthesiology applicant, we also have Maternal-Fetal-Medicine fellows, who would be eligible to attain board certification through the American Board of Anesthesiology.
During the year-long program, fellows manage patients from a wide variety of clinical, surgical, and medical sub-specialties including transplant, trauma, neurosurgery and neurology, cardiothoracic, vascular, and obstetrics & gynecology, among others. Fellows will work with professionals at the highest level of training in this multidisciplinary environment. In addition, UTMB Galveston Campus is a Level I Trauma center with an exceptional Respiratory Therapy program; and our fellows collaborate closely with PharmD fellows, nutritionists, primary teams, etc. in our semi-open ICU setting. Further, we encourage the use of ultrasound and the most up-to-date monitoring devices in the management of critically ill patients. We foster a familiarity with ECMO, LVAD, IABP. Finally, we place primary emphasis on evidence-based practices.
The common application (San Francisco match) can be found on the SOCCA website. Our program is accredited for two fellows and, on occasion, may accommodate off-cycle applicants.
The first MOCA-certified simulation center is on campus and is available to fellows throughout the 12-month training program. The simulation center will be working on developing critical care scenarios to enhance education and hands-on training for many critical care devices, such as LVAD, IABP, ECMO, ventilators, etc. To further enhance education and cooperative learning we offer a weekly departmental M&M in both surgery and anesthesiology. Our educational curriculum also offers a research elective in which fellows can participate in the following:
The translational intensive care unit, funded by NIH and DOD, headed by Perenlei Enkhbaatar, MD, PhD, is a 24/7 ICU for Translational Research Studies, where state-of-the-art medical techniques and novel treatment strategies are developed for the critically ill patient.
The molecular pharmacology laboratory, headed by Dr. Csaba Szabo. This laboratory, funded by the NIH, JDRF and the ADA, focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of critical illness, with special emphasis on vascular dysfunction and cellular metabolic failure and employs state-of-the-art tools of cell biology, molecular biology, molecular pharmacology and cell-based screening.
Resuscitation Research Laboratory, directed by George Kramer, PhD, funded by NIH, U.S. Army, Office of Naval Research and industry, conducts clinical, animal and engineering efforts into smart "decision support" and autonomous care resuscitation systems for trauma and critical care. www.utmb.edu/rrl
For further information please contact our coordinator, Nicole Payne at nipayne@utmb.edu.