NeuroCritical Care Fellowship

The Department of Neurology offers a one to two year fellowship in Neurocritical Care, based at Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.

This program is designed to provide comprehensive training in the care and management of critically-ill neuroscience patients. General critical care experience is complemented by rotations in other intensive care units. Close clinical collaboration with the vascular and endovascular program as well as the neurosurgical service is expected.

To be eligible for the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties(UCNS) Neurocritical Care certification, a 2 year fellowship is encouraged.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Rotations

• Inpatient Neurocritical Care Service
• Medical ICU / Surgical ICU
• Neurosurgery
• Vascular Neurology
• Elective
• Research

Call

Fellow takes at-home call on alternating weeks.

Research

Fellows are required to execute at least one research project a year.  By the fourth month of the fellowship year, fellows are expected to identify their projects and to select faculty mentors.  Fellows formally present their projects at a graduation/educational symposium in May/June.  A very active epidemiological, clinical, and basic research program focused on cerebrovascular diseases provides opportunities for research.

Conferences

There are regular conferences which are attended by all fellows in the program.

• Weekly didactic lecture given by one of the faculty expressly for the fellows.
• Departmental grand rounds weekly.
• Stroke research conference weekly.
• Multi-disciplinary Vascular conference weekly.

There are several other optional conferences available.

DEPARTMENT AND FACULTY

This fellowship joins the Department of Neurology’s other graduate training programs, which have continuously graduated neurology and subspecialty trainees since the 1940s.  Among the significant strengths of our program are the range and depth of the clinical experience provided at several teaching hospitals (Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview for the NeuroCritical Care program); the devotion of the full-time faculty at each of these hospitals to teaching, patient care, and scholarship; and the focus on both clinical and basic research in the midst of a first-rank neuroscience community.

NeuroCritical Care Faculty:
Mustapha Ezzeddine, M.D., Program Director
David C. Anderson, M.D. 
Vallabh Janardhan, M.D.  
Adnan Qureshi, M.D.
Robert Taylor, M.D.
Ramachandra Tummala, M.D.

DURATION OF FELLOWSHIP:1 - 2 years
NUMBER OF FELLOWS PER YEAR:  One

APPLICATION PROCESS
Applicants must have completed an ACGME-accredited neurology residency and be board eligible. Applicants from accredited neurosurgery, emergency medicine, internal medicine, anesthesiology, or surgery programs will also be considered.

Qualified applicants should submit the following before April 30^th:

• A curriculum vitae
• Three letters of recommendation
• A personal statement of interest in this field
• Visa status  (except in very rare instances, only J-1 visas sponsored by ECFMG are accepted)

Please email the above information to bulge006@umn.edu or send via U.S. mail to:

Pat Bulgerin, Fellowship Coordinator
Dept of Neurology
University of Minnesota
420 Delaware St SE, MMC 295
Minneapolis, MN  55455

Competitive applicants will be invited to visit the University of Minnesota for an interview with the program director and selected faculty members.  Interviews are conducted late April – early June. 

Contact Information
Ms. Pat Bulgerin, Fellowship Coordinator
Email:  bulge006@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-9110
FAX: 612-625-7950, Attn: Pat

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