Train at a Premier Academic Medical Center
The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center offers fellows an exceptional training environment within one of the nation's leading academic health systems. Located in the heart of New York City, the program provides comprehensive exposure to the full spectrum of critical care, trauma, emergency surgery, transplant, and burn patient management.
As a major tertiary and quaternary referral center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine delivers the clinical volume, complexity, and multidisciplinary collaboration necessary to prepare fellows for leadership roles in surgical critical care and acute care surgery.
Clinical Environment by the Numbers
Fellows train in a high-volume academic medical center featuring:
- 800 staffed hospital beds
- 110 intensive care unit (ICU) beds
- 38 operating rooms
- 20-bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU)
This broad clinical infrastructure provides extensive experience caring for critically ill surgical patients across multiple specialties, including trauma, emergency general surgery, transplantation, vascular surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, colorectal surgery, and surgical oncology.
Diverse Clinical Platforms
The fellowship offers exposure to a unique collection of specialized clinical services that distinguish the training experience.
Level I Adult Trauma Center
As a designated Level I Adult Trauma Center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center provides comprehensive trauma care for patients with complex and life-threatening injuries. Fellows are actively involved in trauma resuscitation, operative management, critical care, and multidisciplinary trauma team leadership.
Level II Pediatric Trauma Center
Fellows gain valuable experience through collaboration with a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center, expanding their understanding of trauma systems and the care of injured pediatric patients.
William Randolph Hearst Burn Center
The 20-bed William Randolph Hearst Burn Center, verified by the American Burn Association, offers specialized experience in the management of acute burn injuries, reconstructive care, wound management, and critical care of burn patients.
Active Liver Transplant Program
The institution's active liver transplantation service provides fellows with exposure to the perioperative and critical care management of complex transplant recipients, including advanced organ failure and post-transplant critical care.
A Comprehensive Surgical Critical Care Experience
The breadth of pathology encountered at Weill Cornell Medicine allows fellows to develop expertise in:
- Surgical intensive care
- Trauma and injury management
- Emergency general surgery
- Burn critical care
- Transplant critical care
- Hemodynamic monitoring and resuscitation
- Mechanical circulatory and ventilatory support
- Multidisciplinary perioperative care
- Quality improvement and patient safety initiatives
Fellows work alongside experts in surgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, radiology, nursing, pharmacy, respiratory therapy, and rehabilitation services, fostering a collaborative environment that reflects modern critical care practice.
Preparing Future Leaders in Critical Care
The combination of a high-acuity patient population, advanced clinical resources, specialized trauma and burn services, and a nationally recognized academic faculty creates an outstanding environment for training future surgical intensivists. Through immersive clinical experience and multidisciplinary collaboration, fellows graduate prepared to provide exceptional care to critically ill and injured patients while advancing the fields of surgical critical care, trauma surgery, and acute care surgery.