Intensive Care Unit Medicine

Harvard HMS

The rotation takes place in a very busy 18 bed intensive care unit in a tertiary care hospital. The student will be exposed to critically ill patients with a broad range of medical illnesses including sepsis, respiratory failure, and heart failure. In addition there is some exposure to critically ill surgical trauma, and neurology patients. The student will be a working member of the intensive care unit. He/she will be teamed up with a second year resident, and take call with the resident…