Fellowship

Mission and Vision

Our goal is to provide the most effective, current and timely care possible to critically ill patient populations. We strive to provide compassionate care taking into consideration both the patient and family.

Program Director’s Welcome

The University of Miami/Jackson Health System Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Fellowship is proud to offer one and two-year clinically oriented fellowships. The fellowship program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and takes a multidisciplinary approach to critical care training. Faculty and attending physicians in several nationally recognized teaching hospitals including Jackson Memorial Hospital and UHealth Tower of the University of Miami Health System are dedicated to fostering academic excellence, clinical competence and professional growth in the subspecialty of critical care medicine.

The Critical Care Division within the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management is responsible for providing care at several institutions across the health system where fellows gain exposure to a wide array of pathology and diverse patient populations.

The critical care staff provides the highest quality patient care using the latest evidence-based best practices in an environment that promotes a supportive learning environment for trainees. – Alexander Fort, M.D.

Fast Facts

Accreditation: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Fellows per Year: 3
Duration of Fellowship: 1 year (Anesthesia pathway); 2 years (Emergency Medicine pathway)

Program Highlights

Two nationally recognized teaching hospitals
70+ ICU beds covered by fellows across teaching sites
3:1 faculty to fellow teaching ratio
Daily formal didactics

Clinical Experience

The Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Fellowship Program provides fellows with an extensive array of resources in the form of experienced clinicians, state-of-the-art equipment and advanced pharmacotherapy. The fellows are encouraged and constantly challenged to solve diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas and are evaluated on their ability to appropriately care for critically ill patients in a professional manner using compassionate care.

Fellows will gain vast experience working with critically ill patients in intensive care units which include: Cardiothoracic ICU, Neuroscience ICU, Medical ICU, Surgical ICU and Trauma ICU. Multi-disciplinary training includes elective opportunities in specialties such as Radiology, Transfusion Medicine, Nephrology, and Infectious Disease. Focused teaching in bedside point-of-care echocardiography is extensive and fellows also have the opportunity to train in comprehensive transesophageal echocardiogram.

The fellowship didactic curriculum is combined with the Trauma Critical Care Division in order to enrich the learning experience for both groups of trainees. Didactics consist of weekly lectures or presentations in a number of areas including core critical care topics, journal club, quality and patient safety, and morbidity & mortality. Weekly departmental grand rounds cover both anesthesia and critical care topics. Fellows will be required to partake in scholarly activities such as research projects, abstracts or other published work with individual mentoring from faculty members.

Contact Information

Alexander Fort, M.D.
Program Director
Email: acfort@med.miami.edu
Phone: 305-585-1191
Fax: 305-545-6195

Maria-Cristina Wells-Albornoz, MHA, MPH
1611 NW 12th Ave. (C-300)
Miami, FL 33136
Fellowship Program Coordinator
Phone: 305-585-1191, Option 2,1
Email: mcwells@miami.edu