Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Welcome to our Critical Care Medicine fellowship track, which begins in July 2026. The program is accredited by the ACGME and provides two years of clinical training for subspecialty certification in Critical Care Medicine. A one-year Critical Care Medicine track is also open to our Infectious Disease / Critical Care fellows after they complete two years of Infectious Disease fellowship training at Lincoln. The ACGME has approved three additional fellowship positions for the program.

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center is a 362-bed hospital in the South Bronx and part of NYC Health + Hospitals — a busy inner-city public facility known for its diverse patient population and wide variety of pathology, which makes for very busy medical intensive care services.

Mission

Our mission is to provide superior clinical and academic training to the next generation of intensivists. The program fosters a community-based experience in critical care medicine, with extensive exposure to a busy medical ICU as well as the non-medical ICUs, preparing fellows for an exciting career in critical care.

Diversity

Our program serves a diverse patient population from around the globe and selects fellows without bias as to race, sexual orientation, nationality, or religion.

Goals and objectives

1. Provide comprehensive clinical training in the care of critically ill patients.
2. Develop critical thinking skills applicable to any patient with single- or multi-system organ failure.
3. Build strong knowledge in the diagnosis and management of both medical and non-medical critical illness.
4. Develop proficiency in the procedural skills needed to evaluate and manage critically ill patients in academic and community settings.
5. Apply best clinical practices to improve outcomes and patient safety as a dedicated intensivist.
6. Train the next generation of academic leaders.

Training requirements

There are two categories of applicants. Applicants to the two-year CCM track must have completed an ACGME-accredited residency in Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine; the track accepts one fellow each year through ERAS and the NRMP. The one-year CCM track accepts one of our Infectious Disease / Critical Care fellows each year after they complete two years of ID fellowship at Lincoln.

Curriculum

Lincoln Medical Center is the primary training site, with outside rotations at Montefiore Medical Center and NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue.

Two-year track — Year 1: Medical ICU (4 months), Cardiac Care Unit (1), Surgical ICU/Trauma (2), Neuro-ICU (1), Cardiothoracic ICU (1), Electives (2), Research (1).

Two-year track — Year 2: Medical ICU (4 months), Surgical ICU/Trauma (2), Neuro-ICU (1), Cardiothoracic ICU (1), Electives (2), Research (2).

One-year track: Medical ICU (6 months), Cardiac Care Unit (1), Surgical ICU/Trauma (1), Neuro-ICU (1), Cardiothoracic ICU (1), Elective (1), Research (1).

Elective options include airway management/anesthesia, bronchoscopy, advanced point-of-care ultrasound, palliative care, and other medicine subspecialties such as pulmonary, renal, and infectious disease. Outside rotations are the Cardiac Care Unit and Cardiothoracic ICU at Montefiore Medical Center and the Neuro-ICU at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue.

Didactics and scholarly activity

Fellows take part in an annual summer boot camp of didactic and simulation conferences (July–September) covering airway management, bronchoscopy/EBUS, thoracentesis and thoracostomy, tracheostomy care, and POCUS; daily medical ICU morning report with fellows and faculty; the core curriculum lecture series and clinical case conferences; grand rounds and journal club; morbidity and mortality and patient safety / quality improvement conferences; radiology and POCUS conferences; research conferences, including the Society of Critical Care Medicine congress; and a critical care board review series.

Resources

The program has ten board-certified critical care attendings — two trained in Emergency Medicine/Critical Care and eight in Pulmonary/Critical Care — who provide the comprehensive medical ICU service and are actively involved in teaching. The MICU is staffed by dedicated critical care nurses and 24-hour respiratory therapists, and the simulation laboratory augments fellow education.