AdventHealth Orlando - Advanced Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Critical Care
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Job description
Advance your expertise in Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Mechanical Support, and Cardiothoracic rescue.
AdventHealth Orlando invites applications from graduating critical care fellows and intensivists currently in practice for its Advanced Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Critical Care. This immersive, one-year program is designed for physicians seeking focused expertise in the care of patients with complex cardiac and pulmonary disease.
Whether you are completing fellowship or pursuing additional training after years in practice, an individualized educational plan will build on your clinical strengths and support your career goals.
Focused Clinical Training
- Heart and lung transplantation: Pretransplant stabilization, perioperative critical care, graft dysfunction, and postoperative complications.
- ECMO and ECPR: Patient selection, support configurations, supervised cannulation experience, circuit management, troubleshooting, and liberation from support.
- Cardiogenic shock and mechanical circulatory support: Multidisciplinary shock management, Impella, intra-aortic balloon pumps, and durable ventricular assist devices.
- TEE and bedside cardiovascular ultrasound: Supervised training in imaging and hemodynamic assessment to guide clinical decisions.
- Post-cardiotomy management and rescue: Recognition and management of ventricular failure, bleeding, tamponade, refractory respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest.
An Experience Tailored to Your Goals
The fellowship combines supervised CTICU practice with focused electives, simulation, multidisciplinary conferences, and longitudinal faculty mentorship. Graduated clinical responsibility reflects each fellow’s experience and demonstrated competence. Procedural training is guided by supervision and institutional credentialing.
Fellows will complete a mentored project in research, medical education, patient safety, or quality improvement, with opportunities to develop teaching and multidisciplinary leadership skills.
Train at AdventHealth Orlando
AdventHealth Orlando ranked No. 1 in the Orlando metropolitan area and No. 2 in Florida in the 2026–2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Its Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery program tied No. 50 nationally.[1,2] The AdventHealth Transplant Institute includes established heart transplant services and Central Florida’s first and only lung transplant program.[3]
Who Should Apply
Physicians who are board-certified or board-eligible in critical care medicine, including:
- Graduating critical care fellows seeking advanced subspecialty training.
- Practicing intensivists seeking to expand their cardiothoracic expertise or transition toward a practice focused on transplantation and mechanical support.
Qualified applicants from internal medicine, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, surgery, and neurology backgrounds are welcome.
About Us
AdventHealth Orlando is an internationally renowned hospital that specializes in life-saving medical treatments, preventative care and pioneering research. Our healing network includes 30 hospitals and more than 100 extended service locations across the state of Florida. Everything we do is designed to fulfill our ultimate goal — to help people live a healthier, fuller life in mind, body and spirit.
AdventHealth is a network of ten hospitals around the greater Orlando area, which total approximately 3,000 beds. AdventHealth operates in many hospitals across nine different states; 30 of which are in Florida. Our mission has remained the same and is to Extend the Healing Ministry of Christ.
Since 1908, AdventHealth Orlando has cared for the Central Florida community as well as patients from around the world. AdventHealth Orlando is an acute-care, tertiary hospital caring for approximately 300,000 patients a year. As the primary campus for more than 1,000 physicians, AdventHealth Orlando is home to nationally recognized Centers of Excellence for Cancer, Cardiology, Children, Diabetes, Neuroscience, Orthopaedics, and Abdominal and Cardiothoracic Transplant.
AdventHealth Orlando was named a 2024-2025 Best Hospital by the magazine U.S. News & World Report. The hospital was ranked No. 1 in the Orlando metro area, and No. 4 in the state. It is the 14th year in a row AdventHealth Orlando has claimed the top spot in Orlando. In addition, the hospital was ranked among the top 50 in the nation for four specialties: diabetes and endocrinology; neurology and neurosurgery; obstetrics and gynecology and ear, nose and throat.