Fellowship Information: We will have one fellowship position available for July 2025 only via ERAS applications in Summer of 2024.
Department of Medicine
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program affiliated with Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, and the Miriam Hospital offers a 1-2 year training program for applicants looking for robust critical care training.
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program affiliated with Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, and the Miriam Hospital offers a 1-2 year training program for applicants looking for robust critical care training.
Overview
The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program affiliated with Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, and the Miriam Hospital offers a 1-2 year training program for applicants looking for robust critical care training.
The goal of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship is to prepare board eligible or certified internal medicine or emergency medicine physicians for careers in clinical or academic Critical Care Medicine. In all aspects of the educational program, the Fellow is encouraged to develop an attitude of scholarship and the intellectual curiosity to remain in the informational forefront of the discipline throughout his or her professional lifetime. This program is specifically designed to provide the basic and clinical knowledge to effectively care for critically-ill patients, to develop the ability to perform relevant invasive procedures, to develop the skills and credentials necessary to pursue a career in academic medicine, and to develop the skills needed to lead a critical care unit.
One to two fellowship positions are offered each year for training in Critical Care Medicine. Additional years for research training are encouraged. Applications for fellowship are accepted ONLY through ERAS (the Electronic Residency Application Service).
Eligible candidates for the 2-year fellowship include graduates of ACGME-accredited residencies in Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine. Eligible candidates for the 1-year fellowship include previous graduates of an approved ACGME-accredited subspecialty fellowship of Internal Medicine.
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If you’re looking to find out what Rhode Island has to offer for your time outside of the hospital, please visit the Life in RI page or the Internal Medicine Residency’s Why Providence? page.
Basic Information For Applicants
- Sponsored By: Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital (primary teaching site)
- Program Size: 3 fellows = 1-2 open positions per year.
- NRMP: Critical Care Medicine is now participating in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
- ERAS: Applications are only accepted via ERAS. Earliest dates for applications are July, latest date is December. The interview process goes from September to January.
- USMLE: Step 1 is required
- ECFMG: Is required if applicant is foreign medical graduate
- Citizenship: US Citizen, US permanent resident and J-1 applicants are accepted
- EM Applicants: Emergency medicine applicants require 6 months of pre-requisite residency training in internal medicine rotations. If an emergency medicine graduate enters a critical care medicine program with less than the prerequisite clinical education, he or she will need to complete the remaining months at the beginning of fellowship. These additional months will not add to the overall 24-month training time but will reduce months otherwise available for research or electives.
- Stipends and Benefits: First year fellows enter program at PGY4 level, and salaries are commensurate with their post graduate level. Funding is available and can be arranged for fellows to travel to and attend educational conferences.
- Contact: Kerri Carvalho, Fellowship Coordinator, KCarvalho4@Lifespan.org
Current & Former Fellows
First-Year Fellows
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Khaled Jamoor, MD
Medical School: University of Damascus
Residency: Henry Ford Health System, Internal Medicine Program -
Philip Riddle, MD
Medical School: University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Residency: Prisma Health, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Internal Medicine Program
Second-Year Fellow
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Shilpa Kolli, MD
Medical School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Jacobi/Montefiore) Emergency Medicine Program
Former Fellows
Class of 2024
- Janet Joseph, MD – Critical Care Physician at HCA Florida Ocala Hospital
- Mareril Wheeler, MD – Critical Care Physician, BSA Health System, St. Anthony’s Hospital, Amarillo, Texas
Class of 2023
- Sneha Lakshman, MD – Nephrology Fellowship, Stanford University, California
Class of 2022
- Ravi Sarpatwari, MD – Critical care and Emergency medicine physician, Cape Cod Hospital, Massachusetts
- Chris Allison, MD – Critical care and Emergency medicine physician, Baystate Medical Center, Massachusetts
Class of 2021
- Parvati Singh, MD – Sleep Medicine clinical fellowship at University of Pennsylvania
Class of 2020
- Channing Hui, DO – critical care position in San Jose at Regional Medical Center
- Mohammad Arabiat, MD – current pulmonary fellow at the Medical Center at Bowling Green, Affiliated with the University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Class of 2018
- Adeel Abbasi, MD – current T32 research fellow through Brown University
- Nader Azab, MD – critical care attending at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY
Class of 2016
- Keith Corl, MD – Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brown University and critical care attending at Rhode Island Hospital
- Abdullah Chahin, MD – Attending critical care and infectious disease physician at South County Hospital in Wakefield, RI
Medical Education
Our goal is to provide an educational environment which fosters the acquisition of the necessary knowledge, skills, clinical judgment and professional attitude that is essential to the practice of Critical Care Medicine. As such, the core didactics curriculum is designed to complement clinical rotations to provide a comprehensive educational experience during fellowship.
The curriculum includes:
- Core Clinical Rotations in Medical Critical Care Units, with electives in subspecialty critical care units (neurology ICU, surgical/trauma ICU, and cardiac care unit).
- Fellow’s conferences (refer to expandable section for more details)
- Supported attendance at a national or international conference affiliated with critical care medicine. Fellow’s frequently attend the annual American Thoracic Society Conference, annual CHEST conference, and the annual congress of Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Other educational opportunities offered include: an annual and funded 2-year training period at the University Hospital in Tubingen, Germany; opportunities to run teaching conferences and sessions for residents and trainees; support to attend career specific training conferences and sessions; and more.
Clinical Experience
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Graduate Medical Education
Who We Are
The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Brown University aims to produce physicians who have the practical skills and knowledge to practice critical care medicine independently upon graduation. In order to accomplish this, we have created a fellowship with a robust schedule during the two years of training includes multiple different ICU experiences, an escalating degree of independence throughout training, and ample opportunity for practicing and perfecting invasive procedural skills.
Research
Research during fellowship enhances scholarly development, provides a foundation for logical and critical thinking, and encourages lifelong habits of continuing scholarship post-training. The program’s goal is to provide ample opportunities to plan and perform research related to critical care, in order to present findings at research conferences, publish results in leading medical journal, and foster an interest in a career in academic medicine.
Beginning in the first year of training, fellows are mentored in the choosing of research projects. Research can be done at the Miriam Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, the Providence VAMC, and it is occasionally done off-site at affiliated labs. Our program’s broad connections through Brown University and the division of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine provide flexibility to help fellows pursue areas of interest at the clinical, translational, and basic science level during their training. Fellows are also frequently involved in case write-ups and review articles or book chapters, if interested.
In cases where fellows wish to stay on for additional years of research, funding can often be obtained through the division, which can offer a T32-funded research training fellowship when appropriate.