Following the Mayo tradition of integrating various subspecialties, our fellowship partners with the other critical care programs in a shared didactic and simulation-based curriculum. All content has been curated based on the different specialty board exams and fellow requests.

For example, you will learn about ICU pharmacology alongside the critical care pharmacy fellows, pneumonia management with the pulmonary critical care fellows, and TBI management with the neurocritical care fellows. And they, in turn, will learn about airway management alongside you.

This creates a rich environment in which the strengths of each fellowship hone the weaknesses of the others and provide perspectives and questions that are often foreign to anesthesiologists but unquestionably expand fellows’ thinking and understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnostics, and treatments in the ICU. 

Over 150 lectures have been developed, and all are recorded and electronically available for you to pursue at your own pace. Many are part of a series that leads into hands-on workshops, so your education does not simply consist of sitting in a chair and listening.

We have taken the principles of adult learning and engaged academics and applied them in myriad ways to the content and methodology of your instruction. Our pedagogy is inspired by works such as:

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
• How We Learn by Benedict Carey
• Grasp by Sanja Sarma and Luke Yoquinto
• Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
• Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning by Pooja K. Agarwal and Patrice M. Bain

Some of our simulation-based training sessions include neuro emergencies, introductory and advanced mechanical ventilation, bronchoscopy, multi-day POCUS workshop, communication, advanced airway management, and ECMO simulation sessions with training in cannulation.

We also have journal clubs and, where possible, partner with other programs in discussing relevant topics to both our fields, such as discussing ECMO use in OB with the anesthesiology OB fellowship.