Advanced Critical Care Clerkship

This clerkship is a mixture of hands-on patient care experience, unifying didactics and small group activities. Students are assigned to a specialty intensive care unit of their choice, where they become active members of the care team. They make daily teaching rounds, and follow, assess and treat critically ill patients. In addition, students will complete the self-directed Fundamentals of Critical Care Support course of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, study a set of core topics, give literature-based small group presentations to their peers and participate in a series of simulation exercises to enhance clinical learning.

Course Goals

The overarching goals of this clerkship are for fourth-year medical students to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to care for critically ill patients. 

Students will be knowledgeable in the following core topics: 
  • Diagnosis and management of septic shock
  • Hypoxic respiratory failure and ARDS
  • Hypercarbic respiratory failure
  • Mechanical ventilation and weaning
  • Massive GI bleed
  • Acute renal failure and dialysis
  • Prevention of iatrogenic complications
  • Invasive monitoring of vascular pressure
  • ICU nutrition, sedation
  • Analgesia
  • Delirium in the critically ill
  • End of life care including patient and family communications

Clerkship Director

Bo Soo Kim, M.D.

  • Medical Director of the Hopkins Adult ECMO Program
  • Director of the Advanced Critical Care Clerkship for Medical Students
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery

Associate Director

Jed Thomas Wolpaw, M.D., M.Ed.

  • Residency Program Director
  • Co-Director, ACCM Clerkship for Medical Students
  • Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Assistant Director

R. Scott Stephens, M.D.

  • Director, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Critical Care
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Associate Professor of Oncology

Contact

Catherine Weaver
CO Administrative Coordinator
Email: [email protected]