Meet Our Alumni: Yale Neurocritical Care Fellowship
January 27, 2023ID9415
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- 00:08It's very balanced curriculum for fellows.
- 00:11You get exposed to all the
- 00:13major technologies and your ICU,
- 00:14but then you also develop a
- 00:17very solid clinical background
- 00:19and I also like that there are.
- 00:22You know, large diversity of attendings
- 00:25from all different perspectives who
- 00:26have trained in all different places,
- 00:28honestly, you're surrounded by people that
- 00:30care very much about what they're doing.
- 00:33And you know, they put a lot of emphasis and,
- 00:36you know, time and energy into doing
- 00:38the best they possibly can for the
- 00:41patients and the entire field as a whole.
- 00:43So I think being around those individuals
- 00:46and having the different personalities that
- 00:49you can work with on a day-to-day basis.
- 00:52It certainly goes a long way and
- 00:55sort of creating your mindset as
- 00:57you move toward a new career.
- 00:59So I think really it was for the people
- 01:02group at Yale. We're very good at
- 01:04building relationships with other
- 01:05critical care programs like the Mckew
- 01:07and the CIA and the cardiac ICU.
- 01:10And to me that was very important
- 01:11to have this, you know, experience
- 01:13with different critical care units.
- 01:16So those are the reasons why I chose you.
- 01:19I chose Yale for fellowship because
- 01:21it was where I had made my home.
- 01:23Over the course of residency
- 01:25in chief residency,
- 01:26I've grown to appreciate my relationships
- 01:29with people there and enjoy my life.
- 01:31In New Haven I had had a sneak preview
- 01:33of the neuro ICU, and it's at Yale
- 01:36that I decided on this career path,
- 01:38so it just felt natural to go for it.
- 01:41Exactly where my interests have
- 01:42been captured in the 1st place.
- 01:45I knew that at Yale I would see
- 01:47everything learn from incredible.
- 01:49People from across disciplines,
- 01:50and of course I don't need to
- 01:53tell you Yale has a reputation.
- 01:55It's a good one.
- 01:56So training at Yale comes with the
- 01:58long term benefit of that stamp of
- 02:00solidness wherever you go afterwards.
- 02:05My fellowship gave me a great foundation
- 02:07and all the tools I needed to find
- 02:10my way through any new experiences.
- 02:12You provided me with enough of a general
- 02:15critical care experience that you know
- 02:17when you transition into different
- 02:19critical care environments where you
- 02:21might be doing a little bit more general
- 02:24care or a little less general care.
- 02:25It given me enough that I felt
- 02:28confident going into this new attending
- 02:30position that I have currently at Brown
- 02:33and really realize.
- 02:35Every day how well, I was trained
- 02:38as a neuro intensivist at Yale.
- 02:40Fellows are going to be in
- 02:41many cases of course you are
- 02:43going to staff or patients.
- 02:45So with your attending but
- 02:46you have a lot of autonomy.
- 02:48I now feel like being in
- 02:50attending that I'm you know,
- 02:51I've seen or have at least been sort
- 02:54of a third party to almost all of
- 02:57the different scenarios that can
- 02:59arise in the neurocritical care unit.
- 03:01And you see different ways to approach
- 03:04one problem and I think that's.
- 03:06A big thing about ICU medicine is that
- 03:09there's really multiple ways that you
- 03:11can approach any particular issue,
- 03:14and being able to see all those
- 03:16different ways in one fellowship
- 03:18program is a lot of three,
- 03:20because a lot of places you
- 03:21don't really see that.
- 03:26I left fellowship with so many memories
- 03:28that changed me and will be with me forever.
- 03:33Learning multimodal monitoring being able.
- 03:37Very intensely to be part of.
- 03:41The setup process,
- 03:42the insertion of the devices,
- 03:45the interpretation of the data,
- 03:50learning the pitfalls and learning
- 03:51how to interact with the data
- 03:54and how to react to the data.
- 03:56And then ultimately, you know,
- 03:57discussing it as a group and
- 04:00finding out how we can learn
- 04:01more from these patients.
- 04:03I think for me the most memorable thing
- 04:06was really the camaraderie with the AP's.
- 04:12I'm really going to miss it that I
- 04:13when I leave, I think you know there's.
- 04:16There's a lot of great
- 04:18institutions out there.
- 04:18I'm really excited to kind of go out
- 04:20into the world and and finally be an
- 04:22attending and practice in different places.
- 04:24But there's not going to be
- 04:26anywhere that's quite like Yale.
- 04:27You can make your own path.
- 04:29I think there are so many
- 04:31electives that I did a lot of Miku
- 04:33and I did a lot of EG as well.
- 04:36And I even took. A week or two
- 04:41to learn how to do bronchoscopy.
- 04:43So I think I would say you could
- 04:45actually turn it into whatever.
- 04:46Like you can turn the fellowship
- 04:48into whatever you want it to be.
- 04:50The mentorship I had is what
- 04:52changed my life as a clinician,
- 04:56but also as a person. So Umm,
- 04:58come to you for the people
- 05:01you are going to be super strong
- 05:05neuro intensivist? Who's going
- 05:07to be confident on anything and?
- 05:12Yeah, so you have to come to Yale.