Application for Subspecialty Residency

At St. John's Mercy, the traditional medical, surgical, and neurosurgical intensive care units are combined into one multi-disciplinary intensive care unit under the administration of the Critical Care Medicine Department (CCM). During rotation through the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), house officers from the internal medicine, family medicine, transitional year, and obstetrics and gynecology residencies work closely with the CCM subspecialty residents and attending physicians.

In affiliation with Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. John's Mercy Medical Center began a conjoint, internal medicine-based, critical care medicine (CCM) subspecialty residency program in 1979. The two year CCM Subspecialty Residency consists of 19 months of structured core curriculum and five months of elective time, which includes research.

The program at Saint Louis University-St. John's Mercy Medical Center is one of the largest CCM residencies in the country and attracts applicants from all geographical areas. The CCM program educates residents in all aspects of critical care, including clinical patient management, ICU administration, critical care research, and the resolution of ethical and economic problems that confront the practicing intensivist on a daily basis. Formal lectures are provided five times per week.

The core curriculum of the residency is varied according to the fellow's experience and base training. The curriculum includes rotations through the pulmonary consult, the coronary, medical and surgical ICUs at Saint Louis University Hospital, as well as rotations through the multi-disciplinary ICU, nutrition support team, respiratory care, and the Anesthesia Service at St. John's Mercy Medical Center. The clinical ICU rotations emphasize primary care responsibility. Elective time is available within the departments of Medicine, Surgery, and Pediatrics at Saint Louis University and/or St. John's Mercy Medical Center. Basic and/or clinical research is also available during the second year at both institutions. The program provides critical care residents with a broad-based, multi-disciplinary approach to the practice of critical care medicine.

Faculty
The full-time staff are base-trained in internal medicine and all have had training in critical care medicine. The part-time staff include physicians trained in pulmonary medicine, cardiology, infectious disease, general surgery, cardiovascular surgery and anesthesiology.

Christopher Veremakis, MD Chairman of the Department of Critical Care Medicine

Robert W. Taylor, MD Director of the Critical Care Medicine Subspecialty Residency Training Program at Saint Louis University

Rakesh Gupta, MD

George M. Matuschak, MD

Joan Shaffer, MD

Stephen P. Taylor, MD

Steven J. Trottier, MD