Rotations and Hospitals
Emory offers an incredible variety of experiences, with a curriculum specifically designed to train well-rounded intensivists. Fellows can rotate through four MICUs, five subspecialty SICUs, three CCUs, two Neuro ICUs, as well as our eICU. In addition, there are several non-ICU rotations, electives, and dedicated research months.
Below is a list of what Emory has to offer:
Medical ICUs
- Emory University Hospital (EUH)
- Emory University Hospital Midtown (EUHM)
- Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital
- Grady Memorial Hospital
Surgical ICUs
- EUH Surgical / Abdominal Transplant
- EUH CT Surgery / Heart and Lung Transplant
- EUH Midtown Head and Neck
- Grady Trauma
- Grady Burn
Other ICUs
- EUH CCU
- EUH Midtown CCU
- Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital CCU
- EUH Neuro ICU
- Grady Neuro ICU
- eICU – Emory’s virtual ICU that covers ICUs across the Emory system as well as ICUs across Georgia
Non-ICU Rotations
- Nephrology
- Infectious Diseases
- Transfusion Medicine
- Interventional Pulmonology
- Toxicology
- Echocardiography
- Research
- Administration
- Quality Improvement
- ED / Critical Care
Here is some additional information about our four training hospitals:
- Grady Memorial Hospital
With its 971 total beds, Grady is the largest general hospital in Georgia and one of the largest in the world. Nearly 30,000 inpatients and more than 600,000 outpatients are treated here each year. Home to Atlanta’s Level 1 Trauma Center, and one of only two burn centers in the state, Grady is known for its emergency and trauma care. It houses Georgia's only poison center, and the recently opened Marcus Stroke and Neuro-Science Center is the new home of Grady’s award-winning Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center. - Emory University Hospital
A 703-bed tertiary referral facility with a busy affiliated outpatient center located on the campus of Emory University. Its staff, limited to full-time faculty of the Emory School of Medicine, care for patients referred from all over the US and throughout the world. More than 18,000 patients are admitted annually. The hospital is the largest transplant center in Georgia and one of the largest and most diversified in the Southeast, offering heart, heart-lung, kidney, liver, pancreas-kidney, cornea, bone, and bone marrow transplants. A 450,000-square-foot addition to EUH opened in 2017, and houses our new state-of-the-art medical and surgical intensive care units. U.S. News and World Report has ranked EUH the number one hospital in Georgia annually since 2012. - Emory University Hospital Midtown
Located in Midtown Atlanta, this 583-bed community-based acute care teaching hospital was designated by the Atlanta Olympics organizing committee as a hospital for the 1996 Olympics athletes. It was recently named one of the 15 top community teaching hospitals in the country by Fortune / IBM Watson Health. - Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital
Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1880, Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital is Atlanta's longest-serving hospital. Today, the 410-bed, acute-care facility is recognized as one of the top specialty-referral hospitals in the Southeast, and is ranked as the number two hospital in Georgia.
Sample Schedule
Year One
- July - Grady MICU
- August – Nephrology
- September - EUH Midtown MICU
- October - Academic
- November –Grady MICU
- December - eICU/Echocardiography
- January - EUH MICU
- February - Academic
- March - EUH Surgical/Abdominal Transplant ICU
- April – Emory St Joseph’s MICU
- May - Infectious Diseases
- June – EUH MICU
Year Two
- July - Interventional Pulmonology
- August - Academic
- September – EUH Midtown MICU senior fellow rotation October - EUH CT Surgery/Heart-Lung Transplant ICU
- November - Elective
- December – Choice of MICU
- January - Academic
- February – Quality Improvement
- March - Elective
- April - Grady Trauma ICU/ Neuro ICU
- May - Elective
- June - Quality Improvement or Elective
Didactic Experiences
- Critical Care Medicine Lecture Series
The Departments of Neurology, Anesthesiology, and Surgery each have their own critical care fellowships, and all four training programs have a single joint critical care conference on Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. Attendance by fellows from each of the critical care programs is required at these conferences. Critical Care boarded faculty from each of our core Departments (Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, and Anesthesia) will present content in this venue.
- Mechanical Ventilation Course
This yearly course is offered to all first-year critical care fellows at Emory. It consists of a 2-day didactic portion and a 3-day hands-on portion. All fellows will have protected time to attend this course and learn about respiratory mechanics and physiology and apply this knowledge to interpret mechanical ventilator graphics in clinical scenarios.
- Advanced Procedures in Critical Care
This is a yearly course where fellows practice procedures such as difficult intubations, retrograde intubations, surgical airways including cricothyroidotomies and tracheostomies, pigtail and large bore chest tubes, bronchoscopy, and more.
- Bronchoscopy Course and Bronchoscopy Simulator
First-year fellows attend the annual Southeast Bronchoscopy Course, which is a one-day bootcamp for bronchoscopy instruction. Fellows also receive personalized training using Emory’s bronchoscopy simulator to help hone their skills and get familiar with bronchial anatomy.
- Landmark Trials in Critical Care
Every other month, our critical care medicine fellows gather over dinner with a faculty member to go over the truly practice-shaping trials in the field of critical care. This is meant to deepen the fellows' understanding of why we do what we do, and covers topics including ARDS, sepsis, bleeding, ICU prophylaxis, etc.