This policy was developed to ensure high level patient care, appropriate supervision of trainees, and to meet the ACGME Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in the specialty of Critical Care Medicine. The overall goal of the fellowship in Critical Care Medicine is to provide trainees with the intellectual environment for acquiring the knowledge, […]
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Quality Improvement Curriculum
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Green MICU Service
Green Service Fellow Role Senior fellows (2nd and 3rd year) assigned to green service will expected to function in a junior attending capacity. They will run rounds with the APPs at 930am. Senior staff will observe and provide input and advice as needed when there are any questions. First year fellows assigned to green […]
Airway Management Curriculum
Curriculum Rotation Objectives and Educational Purposes: The ability to place a secure airway in myriad clinical situations is a necessary skill of critical care physicians and is an ACGME requirement of fellowship training. Airway management in the ICU can be complicated due to many factors, and the incidence of failed airways in the ICU is […]
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
BACKGROUND The Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital is a two-year program designed to be in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the ACGME and ABIM to guarantee individuals completing the program will be eligible for board certification in critical care medicine and competent to independently practice within the specialty of critical […]
Fellowship Curriculum
See specific rotations for detailed descriptions. The overall goal of the fellowships in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (CCM) is to provide trainees with the intellectual environment for acquiring the knowledge, skills, clinical judgment, and attitudes that are essential to the practice of pulmonary and/or critical care medicine. Whether you are in a combined fellowship […]
Time zone on the Pulm server
This post serves to document that up until today, Pulm server time zone was off by 8 hours (at 2pm server was recording the time as 6 am). Any fields dated before 9/25/2015 should account for this time discrepancy (i.e the Quality Rounds database).
Orders for Sleep Referral
Sleep Studies (General Sleep Study order SLE9) There are required questions on the General Sleep Study that determines the optimal study. Also designed to submit the appropriate claims to their insurance companies and to get prior auth. I recommend documenting in your notes the Stop Bang and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale scores. Both of them […]
Coming Soon
As an FYI, we will be posting the weekly outpatient discussion topics as part of the outpatient curriculum. Look here, for the weekly updates, including links to the pertinent articles to be read prior to the discussions.