Fellowship Program: Training Hospitals

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As a surgical critical care fellow, you would be able to take advantage of clinical rotations at nearby sites in the Twin Cities metropolitan area: University of Minnesota Medical Center - a Division of Fairview (UMMC), North Memorial Medical Center (NMMC), Regions Hospital, the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC), and the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC). These rotations encompass the range of critical care problems related to surgical disease.

At all sites -- UMMC, NMMC, Regions Hospital, VAMC, and HCMC -- the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) is staffed by a complement of surgery residents who are assigned no other responsibilities. Full-time staff trained in critical care surgery make daily patient and teaching rounds, and they follow their own on-call schedule for night and weekend coverage. At UMMC, a staff anesthesiologist and an anesthesia resident also participate. Each of the SICUs admits more than 600 patients per year.

Electives at Minneapolis Children's and at our core hospitals, allow fellows to receive additional experience in pediatrics, trauma, echocardiography, neonatal critical care, pulmonary, and other areas of interest.

Frequent interaction, at regular didactic conferences and formal meetings as well as on a more impromptu basis, helps ensure open communication and diverse scholarship among the faculty at the University, Regions, North Memorial, and the VAMC.


	University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview (UMMC)
	This 432-bed hospital, completed in 1986, overlooks the Mississippi River on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota's main Minneapolis campus. A major regional and national referral center, it draws more than 50% of its patients from outside the Twin Cities. Over 20,000 surgical procedures and 500 solid organ transplants are performed each year. At UMMC, fellows concentrate on complicaed general surgery patients, transplant recipients, and individuals with severe respiratory failure (referred from all the general surgery services, obstetrics and gynecology, otorhinolaryngology, and orthopaedics). Top of page

	Regions Hospital
	This 435-bed hospital is on the edge of downtown St. Paul, about 15 minutes (by car) east of the University of Minnesota East Bank Campus. Acclaimed for its large emergency department, regional trauma center, and burn unit, Regions serves a substantial segment of the population of St. Paul, the capital city of Minnesota, and Ramsey County. At Regions, a designated level I trauma center, fellows focus on multiply injured trauma patients and critically ill patients from general surgery, orthopedic surgery, otorhinolaryngology surgery, cardiac surgery, and neurosurgery. Top of page

	Minneapolis VA Medical Center (VAMC)
	This 845-bed hospital, completed in 1988, occupies seven acres near Fort Snelling and the Minneapolis-St. Paul international airport, about 15 minutes (by car) south of the University. As the tertiary referral center for veterans in all of Minnesota, parts of the Dakotas, northern Iowa, and western Wisconsin, it provides all levels of medical, surgical, and short-term psychiatric care. At the VAMC, fellows supervise the care of general surgery and cardiac surgery patients. Top of page

	Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC)
	HCMC was added as a clinical rotation site in 2005. This internationally-known, 422 bed acute care hospital is located in the heart of Minneapolis, approximately 5 minutes west of the University of Minnesota. HCMC is a comprehensive medical center and public hospital. The Emergency Department is the largest in the state with an annual volume of over 95,000 patient visits. HCMC is an ACS-verified Level I Trauma Center. The population of trauma patients at this center includes a significant percentage of penetrating injuries (approx. 20%). Other unique patient populations at this center include patients with obstetrical emergencies admitted to the ICU and patients admitted for treatment with hyperbaric oxygen. Top of page

	North Memorial Medical Center (NMMC)
	North Memorial Memorial Medical Center has been added as a rotation site. North is an independent, 518-bed, major tertiary-care referral hospital and Level I trauma center serving North Minneapolis and its northwestern suburbs, Greater Minnesota, and northwestern Wisconsin At NMMC, fellows have a broad exposure to blunt and penetrating trauma. As well as, concetrate on the continued care of multiply-injured patients who are admitted to the ICU. Top of page

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