Brigham and Women's Hospital

Affiliated with Harvard University Medical School — Boston, MA

  • Trauma only
  • Critical Care only
  • Trauma & Critical Care
  • Acute Care Surgery
  • Advanced Practitioner
  • Duration: 1-2 years
  • Positions available: 4
  • Salary: PGY scale (PGY 6 level)
  • Program Director: Reza Askari, M.D.

Last updated: January 31, 2019


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Applications are accepted through SAFAS beginning in January for positions that begin the following Academic Year (i.e., candidates would submit applications between January 1, 2019 and July 1, 2019 for positions beginning on August 1, 2020).

The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a one-year ACGME-accredited fellowship in the Division of Trauma, Burns, and Surgical Critical Care. Applications for four positions will be accepted through SAFAS until July 1. Applicants are invited to apply to a one- or two-year fellowship. The two-year fellowship consists of a second year in Acute Care Surgery based on the AAST curriculum, which includes rotations in burn care, orthopedics, neurosurgery, and vascular surgery. The ACS fellowship is not accredited.

For additional information, please visit our website at: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/departments_and_services/surgery/medical_professionals/surged/medical_professionals/criticalcare.aspx

Program started 2008

How to apply

surgeryeducation@bwh.harvard.edu

Qualifications: The program accepts applications through the Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Application Service (SAFAS): www.safas-sccpds.fluidreview.com

The following documents must be available in SAFAS by the application deadline in order for an application to be considered complete and to be reviewed:
Curriculum vitae (CV)
Medical school transcript
Personal statement
Dean's letter (MSPE)
Three letters of recommendation on official letterhead, signed and dated within three months of application submission date
USMLE transcript
ABS In-Training Exam reports of performance

Our deadline for receipt of your application and all supporting documents is July 1st. Applicants must have completed at least three clinical years in an ACGME-accredited graduate educational program in one of the following specialties: anesthesiology, emergency medicine, neurological surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, surgery, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, or urology.

The program only accepts applications received through the Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Application Service (SAFAS): www.safas-sccpds.fluidreview.com

Our deadline for receipt of your application and all supporting documents is July 1st.

Please email surgeryeducation@bwh.harvard.edu with any questions.

Research opportunities

BWH Surgical Critical Care fellows have the opportunity to conduct clinical research protocols with the multidisciplinary Surgical Intensive Care Unit Translational Research (STAR) Group. For more information about the STAR Center please visit their website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/Research/labs/STAR/default.aspx

About the hospital

  • Beds: 747
  • ICU beds: 110
  • Annual ED visits: 56800
  • Annual trauma admissions: 2000
  • Trauma faculty: 6

Fellowship procedures

  • Total surgical (annually): 1100
  • General surgical: 73%
  • Trauma: 27%
  • Blunt trauma: 84%
  • Penetrating trauma: 10%

Location

75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
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