Teaching opportunities for critical care fellows

Our fellows play a central role in medical education at Tufts Medical Center. From the start of training, fellows are actively involved in teaching residents, interns and medical students during rounds, procedures and educational conferences.

Fellows lead case-based discussions, deliver lectures and participate in bedside teaching across ICU rotations. In the MICU, they guide multidisciplinary teams and help junior trainees develop their clinical reasoning and procedural skills in real time.

Teaching is not only encouraged—it’s embedded into the culture of our program. Fellows gain valuable experience in academic leadership and communication, preparing them to become future educators, faculty members or academic clinicians if they choose that path.

Research training + scholarly opportunities in critical care

Fellows in our Critical Care Fellowship are actively involved in clinical and translational research across a wide range of topics, including pulmonary hypertension, post-ICU care, mechanical circulatory support and outcomes in critical illness. Our faculty serve as research mentors, guiding fellows through project development, data analysis, abstract submission and publication.

We strongly support scholarly activity at both the local and national level. Fellows regularly present their work at major conferences such as the American Thoracic Society (ATS), CHEST and the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Critical Care Congress. Many fellows also engage in multi-center research efforts through institutional and national collaborations.

For those interested in formal research training, we offer collaboration with the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), which includes the option to pursue a Master’s in Clinical and Translational Science. Fellows may choose from three focused tracks:

• Clinical Discovery and Investigation
• Clinical Effectiveness Research
• Practice to Policy Research

This structured program provides the tools needed to conduct high-quality research that can influence care delivery and improve outcomes.

Recent scholarly activity

Below is a selection of abstracts presented by our Critical Care and Pulmonary & Critical Care fellows at the 2025 American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference:

1. Evaluating the Effect of Respiratory and Hemodynamic Support During Critical Illness on Cognitive Function After Recovery
2. Lung Density Analysis for Evaluation of Individuals with Post-acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 and Dyspnea, Fatigue or Exercise Intolerance
3. Association of Pulmonary Artery Dilation with Pulmonary Artery Pressure and Survival Using Updated Pulmonary Hypertension Hemodynamic Criteria
4. Assessing the Utility of Provocative Maneuvers During Right Heart Catheterization in Pulmonary Venous Hypertension
5. The Presence of an Absence: Withdrawal of Dopaminergic Medications Leading to Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
6. A Rare Case of Ventricular Tachycardia as the Initial Manifestation of Pulmonary Embolism
7. Dynamic Changes in Renal Angina Index for Predicting Acute Kidney Injury in Septic Shock
8. Off the Beaten Algorithm – Treatment of Mepolizumab-Refractory, Non-severe Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
9. Uncharted Territories: Successful Long-term Calcium Channel Blocker Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Sickle Cell Disease
10. JAK of All Trades: Post-transplant Graft-Versus-Host Disease Manifesting as Sarcoid Lesions Ameliorated by Immunomodulation
11. Efficacy and Safety of Selexipag in Connective Tissue Disease-Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension with Concomitant Interstitial Lung Disease

Hospital affiliations + community ICU experience

Our fellows rotate at Lowell General Hospital (LGH), a busy 400-bed community hospital that serves a diverse and often underserved population in the Greater Lowell area.

At LGH, fellows train in the 23-bed intensive care unit alongside a multidisciplinary team that includes two Tufts Medical Center attending physicians, a fellow, a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, and a Tufts University School of Medicine student.

Fellows take an active role in airway management, regularly performing intubations in the ICU. They also participate in consultations and work with the thoracic oncology team to perform bronchoscopies and EBUS procedures.