Thank you for your interest in our ACGME accredited 2 year Critical Care Fellowship Program at Baystate Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine.  We currently offer 2 positions per year.  Our program emphasizes 20 months of exceptional clinical training and includes 4 months of research in the second year.  Baystate Medical Center serves a population of patients from Southern Vermont and New Hampshire, Eastern New York and Northern Connecticut and Western Massachusetts which includes a population of approximately one million patients.  In addition, we have committed resources to a state-of-the-art 24-bed adult intensive care unit.   The annual patient volume is approximately 1600 patients, 45% surgical and 55% medical.  The Intensive Care Unit is run by Board Certified Critical Care Specialists whose primary disciplines are Anesthesia, Internal Medicine, or Surgery. 

Fellowship Director: Mark Tidswell, MD

Fellowship Coordinator: Suzanne Gallup email: Suzanne.Gallup@bhs.org phone: 413-794-5439

Program & Department Statistics

• Length of fellowship: 2 years
• Number of fellows per year: 2
• Number of Faculty: 21

Baystate Statistics

• Number of hospital beds: 653
• Number of residency programs: 10
• Number of fellowship programs: 16

Fellow Benefits & Facilities

• Salary —  PG4: $60,600  PG5: $63,100
• 4 weeks vacation/year, meal subsidy, free parking
• Disability/Malpractice/Health/Life Insurance
• First and second year fellows share their own office
• Comprehensive electronic medical record
• Well-supplied, on-campus hospital library with 8 librarians and robust e-medicine resources (Up-to-Date, Ovid, etc)
• Access to Tufts online library

Curriculum Information (Curriculum is modified to meet each Fellow's individual needs.)

• PG4: MICU (4 months); SICU (4 months); CICU (1 month); Anesthesia (1 month); Electives (2 months)
• PG5: MICU (3 months); SICU (3 months); Research (3 months); Electives (3 months)

• Daily Conference: critical care conference
• Weekly Conferences: core curriculum series, attending rounds
• Monthly Conferences: fellows' case presentations, journal club, research meeting
• Bi-Monthly Conference: simulation laboratory