Program overview

Learn more about the critical care medicine fellowship program.

About our program

The critical care medicine fellowship received its initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in 2022 and enrolled its inaugural class of fellows that same year. We educate three fellows per class with a total complement of six fellows. Our primary site is Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (ALGH), located in Park Ridge, IL, and our secondary site is Advocate Christ Medical Center (ACMC), located in Oak Lawn, IL. Both sites are large, level 1 trauma centers and comprehensive stroke centers with diverse and complex patient populations.

Mission Statement

The critical care medicine fellowship educates fellows in multidisciplinary critical care environments to become expert, compassionate intensivists with balanced training in clinical skills, team leadership, and communication. The program emphasizes the development of the skills necessary to care for the diversity and complexity of patients it serves throughout Chicagoland, while also helping each fellow to identify and foster their specific professional interests and prepare them for careers as excellent, compassionate, and equanimous physicians.

Program Aims

• Educate fellows in the breadth of multidisciplinary critical care with an emphasis on evidence-based practice.
• Train fellows in all procedural skills necessary for the acute resuscitation of critically ill patients regardless of location.
• Develop leadership skills in fellows to function as an effective team and organizational leaders.
• Foster in fellows compassionate, patient-centered communication skills.