How do you learn critical care?

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Do you feel like your critical care training is missing something?

It’s not just you. We hear it every day from PAs, NPs, house staff, nurses—they’re dropped into the ICU and expected to learn the job. But how?

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Immersion

You show up and figure it out. And eventually, you do. But…

The only things you learn by immersion are the essentials. How to get through your day, talk to patients, make some calls, write some notes.

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But where’s the medicine?

Sure, you see some things, and learn some things. But you don’t learn how or why.

You’re missing the didactics. The core principles. Someone to tell you, “This is what diseases look like and this is how we treat them.” You turn into a mere technician. And you never learn anything you don’t happen to see.

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Teaching critical care is tough

Unfortunately, most ICUs just aren’t equipped to offer a strong didactic curriculum. It requires passionate educators, a committed system, and an institution that cares about more than just your labor.

That’s where we come in

We’ve spent the past 15 years teaching medicine online using blogs, videos, social media, and our popular podcast Critical Care Scenarios (now with >300 episodes and hundreds of thousands of downloads).

With that experience, we built the Intensive Care Academy. Inside, you’ll find: