Critical Care Specialty Residency

Clinical/Resident Activities

Activities while on the unit will include (but are not limited to): 

• Rounding with the critical care team daily
• Patient monitoring/problem solving
• Investigation of medication error reports and adverse drug reactions
• Drug information and literature searches
• Attending codes
• Team-related projects
• Communication and interaction with pharmacists, physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and dietitians
• Contributing as a member of the critical care team

Other activies include:

• Assist in the development of guidelines and protocols
• Attend Pulmonary/Critical Care grand rounds and journal clubs
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support training
• Opportunities to interact with residents in PGY2 (nutrition, ID, transplant and oncology) and PGY1 (pharmacy), and PGY1 and PGY2 (hospital pharmacy administration)

Travel opportunities include:

• Support to attend the either the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists or the Society of Critical Care Medicine Meeting
• Great Lakes Pharmacy residents conference
• Spring visit to other health systems and residency programs
• Support to attend other meetings in the state of Wisconsin

Rotations

• Medicine Critical Care
• Surgical Critical Care
• Nutrition
• Neurosciences ICU
• Cardiac Medicine ICU
• Pediatric ICU

Acute Care Elective Rotations

• Infectious Disease consults
• Renal consults
• Cardiovascular Surgery ICU
• Emergency Medicine
• Others based on resident interest