What type of medicine would ICU be under? e.g.( Emergency, Allopathic, etc.)

What type of medicine would ICU be under? e.g.( Emergency, Allopathic, etc.)

There are different ICUs (surgical ICUs, Neonatal ICU, etc). These tend to be staffed by their individual specialties (surgeons for SICU, Neonatologists for NICU, and so forth).

I'm assuming you're asking about a non-surgical Adult ICU. If I'm not mistaken, there is a branch of medicine known as Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine (1-2 fellowships following an Internal Medicine Residency). This would be one of the groups that staffs an adult Medical ICU.

(side note: Allopathic medicine is a phrase that is used only to distinguish the MD license from the DO license. Both MD and DO physicians could work in an ICU given the proper post-graduate training)

Not a ton of help, but here's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_care_medicine#Physicians.2C_veterinary_cr iticalists_and_intensivists) some more info.

Pulmonology is a 2 year fellowship as is Critical Care BUT there are many combined Pulm/Critical Care 3 year programs.
If you want to work in an ICU you HAVE to do the Critical Care part. The pulmonology part allows you to have an outside office to see patients in as well.

I believe you can do a CC fellowship after training in EM as well.

so you would go through all of the req's for general med. then go through special training for ICU work?

4 years undergrad
4 years med school
3-4 years residency
1-2 years CC fellowship

thnx for the replies.

The breadth of whom can do ICU is wide.

The most common route, as mentioned, is Medicine residency + Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship. Doctors completing residency in Surgery, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine and Ob/Gyn can all find fellowships in Critical Care. Pediatricians can find fellowships in critical care, as well as choosing fellowhship in Neonatology.

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Neurologists can also be certified for critical care. ;)

But to repeat what others have said, most adult ICU's are manned by pulmonologists.

Btw, pediatricians that complete fellowship in critical care are certified to handle pediatric icu (as peds intensivists), but not the neonatal unit (which requires a neonatologist).