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Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Columbia

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2 Medical Park Rd.
Suite 306
Columbia, SC 29203

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Caring for critically ill surgery patients

The Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program is an accredited one-year training program that accepts one fellow each academic year.

Video: Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

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my name is dr ashley jones i was the

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critical care fellow in 2018 2019

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and have now returned to my general

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surgery residency as a chief resident

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for my fourth and fifth year

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i actually came here as a medical

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student to do a visiting rotation

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and i really was drawn to the trauma

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service here

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it's a busy trauma service i actually

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did a

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shadowing of the resident team and went

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through a trauma activation

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and really just enjoyed watching and the

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residents

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seemed to be really happy here and

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seemed to be learning a lot and very

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comfortable with what they did

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from a critical care standpoint this

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program is

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really anything you want to make of it

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we are a busy level one trauma center

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we see a lot of penetrating trauma

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there's a lot of operative experience

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here

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if you come from a place where there

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wasn't a lot of trauma or critical care

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this is a great place to get your feet

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wet you leave here knowing

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how to take care of critically ill

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patients i'm chris watson i'm the

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program director for the prisma health

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surgical critical care fellowship

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i trained here as a resident and left to

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do my fellowship at the university of

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virginia in charlottesville

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and came back and two or three years

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later took over the program there's a

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couple of things that make this program

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unique

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we actually design the program around

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what the fellow needs

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we've noticed that not every resident is

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the same all the training programs are a

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little different

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in order to give the fellow what they

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really need

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we have an interview after the interview

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when they've already matched with us

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when we decide what the program needs to

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look like for the year

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we have only one fellow and so you'll

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really get to know our faculty

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you'll work really close with those and

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really develop a mentorship

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with these people we have it so that the

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residents and the fellows

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really do have different roles here and

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so there won't be a lot of competition

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for cases or for patient care

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one of the things that we really wanted

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to focus on was

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collaborative education for the fellow

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and while

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all programs are required to have a desk

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for the fellow we had our fellowship

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desk placed in an area that has the

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pharmacist the

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dietitian and one of the faculty members

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usually me

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and so when the fellow's planning

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patient care they can turn around and we

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can all talk about it

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at the same time and it helps reaffirm

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and focus that thought

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and the residence so they really latch

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on to that information

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i've really enjoyed you know being in

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colombia there's

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multiple restaurants here it's a very

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up-and-coming area there's multiple

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breweries

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there's always something to do on the

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weekends and then if you're trying to

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get out of town

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or an hour and a half from charleston an

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hour from charlotte you can get to the

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mountains very quickly

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it just seemed to be in a great location

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so i think the most inspiring thing that

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i've encountered here

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is how this hospital system embraces

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the patients in the community the trauma

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service rallies around

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their patients and supports them through

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the entire hospital stay

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them and their families and to watch you

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know a patient come back

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after we thought they weren't going to

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make it into the icu to

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you know say hello to the nurses and the

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care team has been something that's been

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very inspirational to me

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so one thing that we're proud of here is

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that we've been able to keep

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a lot of our fellows on this faculty of

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the seven that we have

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currently four trained here and decided

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to stay here

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they love the area they love the

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hospital system

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and we all are very close and develop

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close relationships with each other

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after completing this program a fellow

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is going to be prepared to do

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every aspect of surgical critical care

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we start the resident off with a lot of

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oversight and by the end of the year

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they're

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running the ice suit independently we're

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still there

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if they need us sitting in the corner

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watching but

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they are running the show at that point

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so the day they step

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out of their fellowship they're going to

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step right into being an

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attending the resident team we've always

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had each other's backs

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and we all get along you know we're a

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big family

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we're away from all of our families so

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we've become each other's family

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you

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All applicants should be board eligible in general surgery or have completed three years of general surgery training, and have a letter from their program director providing assurance that the fellow may return to general surgery training following completion of the critical care fellowship.

The mission of the surgical critical care fellowship is to provide:

An educational environment to develop the skills for state-of-the-art support of human physiology under the stress of extreme illness, injury or surgery.
Compassionate and humanistic care to those individuals with critical surgical illness.
An environment for developing a program optimized for clinical basic scientists who will become leaders in the arena of multidisciplinary critical care medicine.