Pulmonary Disease & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
The Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship is based at Summa Health System’s Akron campus, which features a dedicated critical care tower with 78 ICU beds. Our pulmonology clinic has good autonomy, a helpful clinic staff, and a wide array of pathology. Fellows will also gain experience through rotations in neurocritical care, surgical and cardiothoracic critical care, palliative care, anesthesia, and other electives.
Welcome Letter from Program Director, Dr. Desmett
Thank you for your interest in our Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship program at Summa Health. In addition to our three-year, dual-accreditation program in pulmonary and critical care medicine for applicants who have completed internal medicine residency, Summa also offers a two-year critical care medicine track for applicants interested in single-accreditation training. We invite qualified applicants from both internal medicine and emergency medicine training backgrounds to apply for this track.
Akron City Hospital, the training campus for our fellows at Summa Health, is a Level 1 trauma center with over 700 inpatient beds. The hospital also features a dedicated critical care tower with 78 ICU beds, which is shared between medical, surgical, and cardiac services. Our pulmonology clinic has good autonomy, a helpful clinic staff, and a wide array of pathology. These facilities help ensure trainees have the appropriate resources to care for the high-volume, high-acuity population of patients typical for a large community hospital.
Summa Health has always been a special place to train due to its hybrid nature as a busy, clinically oriented community hospital that also has close ties to the academic community through its affiliation with Northeast Ohio Medical University. Fellows will routinely interact with medical students, residents, and fellows from other disciplines. In the medical ICU, the rounding team includes teaching faculty from both Nephrology and Infectious Disease, giving the fellows further opportunities for learning in a multidisciplinary environment. Through NEOMED and the Summa Health Clinical Research Center, fellows will have abundant opportunities for clinical research and scholarly activity during their training.
Using Summa's state-of-the-art simulation lab, critical care fellows at Summa will receive robust training in bronchoscopy, critical care medicine procedures, and critical care ultrasound. Our large group of ICU physicians provide 24/7 coverage at Akron City Hospital, and we will ensure that each fellow receives regular one-on-one feedback and close mentorship.
In addition to their robust training in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, our fellows will also rotate with the neurointensive care service, the surgical and cardiothoracic ICU services, palliative care, and anesthesia. Opportunities for other electives that complement each trainee’s personal career goals are also available.
We are excited to train future pulmonologists and intensivists here in Akron. We pledge to provide our trainees with the well-rounded, multi-faceted experience necessary to become excellent clinicians and teachers who will be assets to any program upon completion of their fellowship.