Our Critical Care fellowship program offers different tracks for our fellows. Do you have an idea of a specific track you'd like to pursue if you matched into our program?
Many Critical Care fellowship programs offer different training tracks for their fellows, allowing them to customize their training to fit their career goals. These tracks include clinical, physician investigator, community medicine, and pulmonary medicine. In asking this question, your interviewers want to be assured you are familiar with their tracks and to see if you have any initial thoughts on the track you want to pursue with their program.
With no right or wrong answer to a question like this, speak from the heart on your ideal training path as a Critical Care fellow and ensure it fits with your ultimate career goals. Since different programs can have different defined training tracks, it's essential that you thoroughly research the program you are interviewing with before your interview so you can speak knowledgeably about their tracks and which you prefer to pursue.
"One thing that interests me about your program is your community track for fellows who want to practice community medicine as an Intensivist. I went into medicine to help patients at the bedside and save lives; this is where I want my career to go post-fellowship. Your program would allow me to rotate to community hospital ICU settings in several locations."
