Queen’s University is proud to offer one of Canada’s leading subspecialty training programs in Critical Care Medicine (CCM). Queen’s offers residents a rigorous and intensive training experience in CCM, while providing individual learners with flexibility to pursue clinical and academic opportunities suited to their own career goals.

Our program attracts high-performing residents from all of the base specialties that support Critical Care, and our trainees quickly become integral members of our team, which is known for being collegial, friendly, and welcoming. Residents work closely with our dedicated and supportive group of faculty, who share a commitment to teaching and to providing outstanding clinical care.

The smaller size of our program fosters a close, supportive relationship between faculty and trainees. Our graduates have gone on to become national and international leaders in Critical Care Medicine as clinicians, educators, administrators and researchers. We are proud of our world-class research program, which offers trainees opportunities to lead and to actively participate in a variety of clinical studies.

The program is generally 26 four week blocks (2 years), of which 13 blocks are required adult ICU rotations. Other required clinical training blocks include Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS), CCU, community ICU and Toxicology. There is considerable elective time built into the program in order for learners to pursue individual learning or academic goals. There is also opportunity for trainees interested in developing as clinician-scientists to enroll in an advanced academic degree program in conjunction with their clinical CCM training through the Queen’s Clinician Investigator Program.

The majority of the clinical training occurs at Kingston Health Sciences Centre – the regional trauma center for south-eastern Ontario – a busy Level 3 ICU with a mix of surgical and medical patients. The KHSC ICU is a high-volume, high-acuity 33-bed general Critical Care unit, with a diverse medical/surgical/trauma patient population. You will also do rotations at Lakeridge Hospital in Oshawa, which is a large, busy community ICU affiliated with our program, as well as in the Cardiac Sciences Unit at KHSC, which cares for postoperative cardiac surgical patients.

Our innovative clinical/on-call schedule for Critical Care fellows provides trainees with considerable protected time during clinical rotations to encourage independent learning and scholarly activity: in each 4 week block, 3 weeks are spent providing care in the ICU and up to one week is allocated for independent study.