Thank you for your interest in our Emergency Medicine-Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship! Our program is co-led by the University of Wisconsin Departments of Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine, with ABA approval to accept EM applicants on a two-year track.
Our Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) Fellowship is ACGME accredited. Qualified graduates are able to pursue ACCM certification dual sponsored by the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) and the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM).
Broad Based Critical Care
Our fellows receive broad training in the medical, surgical/trauma, and cardiothoracic intensive care units under dedicated intensivists from anesthesiology, emergency medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, medicine/pulmonology and surgery. Our faculty are committed to developing fellows as expert clinicians, educators, researchers and healthcare leaders with opportunities to work on prehospital, quality, and ECPR teams, teach residents, and conduct research.
Our fellows gain experience in managing critically ill patients who require temporary extracorporeal support, like VA- and VV-ECMO, as well as durable support such as VADS. Fellows also gain excellent experience caring for solid organ transplant recipients, where UW Hospital is a leader in liver, heart, and lung transplantation. Fellows are a core part of each of our ICU teams – our fellows are never “visiting” or “rotating,” but are key to the success of each ICU. Fellows are active participants on the pulmonary embolism response team (PERT) and the Shock Consult team, which advises on ECPR initiation.
Clinical Practice
Fellows are integrally involved in all of the intensive care units and develop graduated responsibility through their 2 years at UW, gaining independence and comfort managing all aspects of critical illness. Fellows are expected to lead daily teaching rounds and participate in didactic sessions both as learner and teacher. We have excellent exposure to the full breadth of critical care and our practice is team-oriented, supportive and collaborative between disciplines.
Program Details
Accredited: Yes
Available Positions: 1-2
Program Length: 2 years
Start Date: July 1, 2026
Match: SF Match
Appointment: Clinical Instructor
Moonlighting: Available
Fellowship Rotations and Educational Conferences
Our fellows rotate through our intensive care units in 2-4 week blocks, with nine months of total ICU experience each year. A typical balance of ICU exposure includes approximately 2 months in the surgical/trauma ICU, 5 months in the medical ICU, 10 months in the cardiothoracic ICU and 1 month in the neurointensive care unit. We have additional flexibility to work in elective or dedicated ICU time in the non-surgical cardiology and neurology/neurosurgery ICUs, and we maintain the ability to individualize each fellows’ specific ICU mix based on their prior experience and interests.
Fellows participate in our active simulation program with events and training in echocardiography, emergent intubation, medical emergencies, and ECMO. Fellows are given time to attend one national conference annually, local/regional echocardiography conferences, and local UW-sponsored conferences.
Fellows expand their independence in patient care and medical education throughout the year. Fellows gain teaching experience with didactic responsibilities within the Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine residency programs, as well as in the SICU, MICU and CTICU. Further, we offer guided research experiences and mentorship to enable presentation at our departments’ Grand Rounds lecture series, which is a career building stepping-stone for budding academic physicians.
Each week, the Department of Anesthesiology hosts anesthesiology lectures, anesthesiology grand rounds and two echo conferences. Meanwhile, the Department of Emergency Medicine hosts a dedicated Critical Care Conference series, M&M, and joint EM-Trauma Surgery conference. The critical care groups also have weekly conferences, specific to each unit. The critical care lecture series provides the core background knowledge to succeed in subspecialty certification. Finally, we provide a month-to-month guided reading/topic-based curriculum that combines textbook chapters with core review articles and landmark manuscripts in our field.
We offer excellent hands-on and didactic training in echocardiography (TTE and TEE) and pleural sonography. Fellows will be well equipped to board certify in critical care echocardiography (CCEeXAM via NBE).
Outside of the ICU, electives are completed in Transplant Infectious Disease, Transfusion Medicine, Nephrology, Echocardiography & Chest Radiography. Fellows also have the opportunity to fly with our physician-nurse staffed critical care transport team, and will have elective time to pursue research and QI activities and additional electives of their choosing.
Micah Long, MD
Fellowship Director
Brittney Bernardoni, MD
Associate Fellowship Director
EM-ACCM Program
Brandon Russell
GME Program Manager
Our Faculty & Care Teams
We have an excellent team of multidisciplinary academic physicians who value clinical, bedside medicine while still taking time for academic productivity. We engage regularly with residents and fellows from emergency medicine, anesthesiology, and other fields, and our Emergency Medicine and ICU groups are regularly honored with teaching awards from the residents.
We are proud to have a collegial, supportive and collaborative environment here at UW, and we are proud of the remarkable care we provide for our patients.
Learn more about our faculty and programs »
Division of EM Critical Care Division of Critical Care Anesthesia
Emergency Medicine – Critical Care Faculty
Brittney Bernardoni, MD
Joshua Glazer, MD
Matthew McCauley, MD
Critical Care Faculty
Robert Arrigo, MD
Christopher Cassara, MD
Gozde Demiralp, MD
John Dollerschell, MD
Stuart Feichtinger, MD
Laura Hammel, MD
Micah Long, MD
Justin Tawil, MD
Download Our Recommended Critical Care Reading List
Curated by Fellowship Director, Dr. Micah Long, this Critical Care Anesthesiology Reading List will benefit resident and fellow physicians interested in achieving excellence in their training program and career. This list is updated as of March 2023.
Living in Madison
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Application Guidelines
We utilize the San Francisco Match (sfmatch.org) and ask all interested applicants to apply via the SF Match’s Central Application Service (CAS). Please complete and submit the CAS application form online and provide three letters of reference.
In-cycle interviews will take place February through May for positions starting the following year. On rare occasions we reserve a second fellowship position “outside of the match” for applicants that decided to pursue critical care off-cycle to SF Match. Please email us for more information if you are interested in an off-cycle application.
Please direct application process questions to:
Brandon Russell, GME Program Manager
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
600 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53792
russell2@wisc.edu