Surgical Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery fellowships [Music playing] Jennifer Knight-Davis, MD: My name is Jennifer Knight-Davis. I am a professor of surgery. I'm the director of emergency general surgery and the program director for our two-year acute care surgery fellowship. [Text on screen: Jennifer Knight-Davis, MD Professor of Surgery Ohio State ACS Fellowship Program Director] Jennifer Knight-Davis, MD: An interesting thing we say here at Ohio State, we don't look for someone who's going to fit us. We want someone who's going to build and grow, and be, and make us better. Our acute care surgery fellowship is accredited through the American Association for the Surgery. Speaker 2: Trauma level one in 12 minutes. Jennifer Knight-Davis, MD: Ironic that our interview is being interrupted by trauma activation. [Text on screen: Anahita Jalilvand, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Surgery Ohio State SCC Fellow, 2022-23] Anahita Jalilvand, MD, PhD: One of the great things about Ohio State is how multidisciplinary our ICU fellowships and ACS fellowships are. We have a lot of great teams that work with us to optimize the education we provide to our fellows. [Text on screen: Ashley Donovan, MD Ohio State SCC Fellow, 2024-25] Ashley Donovan, MD: We have great camaraderie. Everyone works really well together as a team to take fantastic care of patients. The relationships and the experiences we have with the trainees and the attendings, the faculty, are one of the reasons why this training program is so great. [Text on screen: Brett Tracy, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery Ohio State SCC Fellowship Program Director] Brett Tracy, MD: The Surgical Critical Care Fellowship is comprised of a year of one month rotations. Six months of that is your bread-and-butter surgical ICU, of which two of those months is a night float rotation. There's two months of the cardiovascular ICU, one month of the medical ICU slash neuro critical care unit. One month is focused on echocardiography as well as intubation experiences, and then the remaining two months are for electives. The fellows can choose from whatever they want. Anahita Jalilvand, MD, PhD: They also get to participate in some cutting-edge simulation labs up in prior lab, and they can actually do ECMO lab simulations to learn how to be providers for ECMO. Brett Tracy, MD: Fellows immediately develop autonomy. [Text on screen: Jake Holzemer, MD Ohio State ACS/SCC Fellow, 2023-25] Jake Holzemer, MD: The past two years have been incredibly formative for me. I've been able to take care of some of the sickest patients in the hospital in our surgical ICU, and handle some very complex surgical pathology in the operating room. Jennifer Knight-Davis, MD: After that, they move into a more operatively focused year with emergency general surgery patients and trauma patients to get the operative experience that a trauma surgeon would need. Brett Tracy, MD: We are an ABA verified burn center and we are a nationally recognized comprehensive transplant center. Jennifer Knight-Davis, MD: We also are a level one trauma center. [Text on screen: Julia Coleman, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Surgery Ohio State SCC Fellow, 2022-23] Julia Coleman, MD, MPH: We are often the place where no one else that has the answer sends them to us. Jennifer Knight-Davis, MD: We incorporate robotic surgery into our emergency general surgery practice. We have the ability to use the robot as a tool for our patients' nights stays, weekends, 24/7. Fellows have the opportunity to transition in their independence so that by the end, you might not even know who's a fellow and who's an attending. We want to incorporate them into our flow. Brett Tracy, MD: I'm looking for fellows who are motivated to make a clinical meaningful impact as well as within the broader surgical critical care community. All of the fellows have the opportunity to attend at least one academic conference of their choosing. In addition, if the fellows submit research and are accepted to present a quick shot or at the podium, we completely fund that as well. Jennifer Knight-Davis, MD: We're looking for fellows and trying to create an experience for our fellows so that they want to stay in Columbus. Anahita Jalilvand, MD, PhD: We have a great restaurant scene here. There's always someplace new to go try out. Co-fellows, co-residents, friends, family. Jennifer Knight-Davis, MD: I very much expected Columbus to be focused on the Buckeyes, which they are, but I've recently become a hockey fan. The Columbus Blue Jackets are the hockey team in town. My husband and I have bought season tickets and we really enjoy going. Julia Coleman, MD, MPH: I was given advice, when you go places you should look for construction because that's really a metric of vitality of an organization. If they're building and growing, then it's a resource-rich place that's doing well. The fact that we need another tower gives you an idea of how much volume we have. We are often full, and so we've got a lot going on. Jake Holzemer, MD: The culture here is very collaborative. People are always willing to help. You can reach out and call anybody. Julia Coleman, MD, MPH: That's part of the reason why I stayed as faculty after I finished my fellowship year. Jennifer Knight-Davis, MD: So it's challenging clinically with people that you're going to like to work with in a place that you'd like to live. [Text on screen: The Ohio State University go.osu.edu/acs_scc_fellowship] [Music fades]