About Us

About Us

Cleveland Clinic Akron General (CCAG) offers a 1-year ACGME-accredited fellowship in Surgical Critical Care (SCC). This educational journey consists of a combination of clinical and career mentorship along with administrative and educational responsibilities. As this fellowship progress through the year, the fellow level of responsibility grows across all aspects of critical care.

Candidates for the fellowship will have successfully completed 5 years of US postgraduate training by the time of entry into the fellowship program. The fellow will have the opportunity to manage most complex trauma and emergency general surgery patients in tertiary care settings. To enhance their professional development, our fellows will administer and supervise surgical critical care units and conduct scholarly activities.

The goal of this fellowship is to prepare surgeons for careers choice in academic surgery or private practice. One of the biggest strengths of our SCC fellowship is the excellent collaborative experience with other critical care units and various surgical services. The fellow rotations include 10 four-weeks in the field of critical care including SICU, CVICU and MICU.

Electives include:

  • Acute Care Surgery
  • Trauma Surgery
  • Neuro-ICU
  • Supplemental month of SICU, MICU or CVICU

Upon successful completion of the surgical critical care fellowship, trainees are eligible to take the Surgical Critical Care Certifying Examination.

Thank you for your interest in our fellowship program. 

For more information, contact Daniel Vazquez, MD at vazqued@ccf.org or Kim Martter at selfmak@ccf.org.

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