Program Curriculum

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia and Cornell Campus) - Neurocritical Care Fellowship (5503518005) - Block Diagram 

            FY1              
Block  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Site 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1&2 1&2 1&2 1&2  
Rotation Name Neuro
CC Unit
Neuro
CC Unit
Neuro
CC Unit
Neuro
CC
Night Float
Vasc Neuro/ CNP Neuro CC Unit Neuro CC Unit Neuro CC Unit OR Anesthesia Elective ICU Elective Elective Elective Vacation
% Outpatient  0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%  
% Research  20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 50% 50% up to 100% up to 100%  
            FY2              
Block  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Site 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1&2 1&2 1&2 1&2 1&2  
Rotation Name Neuro
CC Unit
Neuro
CC Unit
Neuro
CC Unit
Neuro
CC
Night Float
Neuro
CC Unit
Neuro CC Unit Neuro CC Unit CNP/ Int. Neurorad. ICU Elective Elective Elective Elective Vacation
% Outpatient  0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%  
% Research  20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 50% up to 100% up to 100% up to 100

Sites:

1. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital 
(Columbia Campus)
2. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital 
(Cornell Campus)

Neurocritical Care (Neuro CC) Unit : 24 weeks  scheduled per academic year. Fellows are the primary service provider in the neuro-ICU.

OR anesthesia elective: 4 weeks total scheduled during year 1. Fellows practice intubation techniques in the OR and endoscopy suites, with supervision from assigned anesthesia attendings.

ICU elective: 4 weeks scheduled per academic year. Fellows are observers on ICU rotations in the medical ICU, surgical ICU,  and CTICU services.

Vascular neurology: 2 weeks scheduled during year 1. Fellows are the primary service provider on the vascular neurology ward and consult service.

Neurophysiology (CNP): 2 weeks scheduled per academic year. Fellows are team members responsible for interpreting data and writing EEG reports under the supervision from assigned epilepsy attendings.

Neurocritical Care (Neuro CC) Night Float: 4 weeks scheduled per academic year. Fellows are the primary service provider in the neuro-ICU at night.

Interventional neuroradiology (Int. Neurorad.): 2 weeks scheduled during year 2. Fellows are observers with the interventional neuroradiology service.

Elective: Fellows receive 8 weeks of elective in year 1 and 12 weeks of elective in year 2. Possible electives include multimodality monitoring, neurosonology, critical care ultrasound, bronchoscopy, ICU infectious disease, neuro-ICU nursing, research, teaching elective, neurohospitalist elective, cardiac critical care elective, palliative care elective, critical care transfusion/blood bank elective, critical care nephrology, radiology, anesthesia, neurovascular, and clinical neurophysiology elective.