Intensive care medicine trainees can complete up to three years of further training with us. During their training, they rotate between all four units of the intensive care unit, where they work in a smaller team consisting of a senior doctor and a maximum of two assistant doctors. This provides them with intensive bedside teaching. In addition to clinical training, structured theoretical training takes place three times a week, including further training in ultrasound with a focus on transthoracic echocardiography. The intensive care unit team is also jointly responsible for resuscitations throughout the hospital.

Of the 27 training positions, 8 are currently reserved for intensive care medicine trainees. Applications with different medical backgrounds will be considered (anesthesiology, internal medicine, other). In accordance with the recommendation of the SGI, applicants must have at least two years of general training when starting in our intensive care unit.

Our rotation positions are reserved for internal applicants from the University Hospital Basel's Departments of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Surgery and Cardiology. It is therefore not possible for external applicants to apply for a rotation position.

If you have any questions or are interested in training as a specialist in intensive care medicine, please send your questions or application including your CV by e-mail to Dr. Nadine Cueni, Deputy Chief Physician and Head of the Intensive Care Medicine Training Centre(nadine.cueni@usb.ch).

Internal applicants for a rotation position on the intensive care unit as a specialist in anaesthesia, surgery, internal medicine or cardiology should contact the relevant clinics directly.

• You will work full-time in the intensive care unit (Mon to Fri 07.00h - 17.00h)

• Assignment for supervision and teaching:
• Mentoring in the daily routine by assigned assistant doctor
• Selective teaching/supervision by senior physician

• Pre-examining and evaluating patients and making therapeutic suggestions with the aim of admitting stable patients
• Writing an exit report for patients without complications
• Participate in the daily ward round
• Participate in further training events.
• Get to know intensive care medicine and the associated techniques and monitoring methods of various kinds

• Neurological: recording the GCS, delirium problems Cardiovascular: monitoring options, interpretation of the invasive blood pressure curve and central venous pressure. Insertion of an arterial catheter.
• Lungs: options for oxygen administration, mask ventilation, basic features of intensive care ventilation techniques, indications for non-invasive ventilatory support
• Gastrointestinal tract: basics of parenteral/enteral nutrition, blood sugar management, insertion of a gastric tube.
• Kidney: basic renal replacement procedures
• Infectiology: Common infectiological clinical pictures in intensive care medicine, microbiological clarification options
• Interpretation of arterial blood gas analysis, chest X-ray and ECG
• Basic principles of volume and vasoactive drug administration
• Ethical and social aspects of intensive care patient care

There is an annual quota of vacancies.
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Program duration

Two to three months, from the first day of the first month to the last day of the last month.

Please send your application for an assistant position by e-mail to:
bewerbungenuaintensiv@usb.ch

University Hospital Basel
Ms. Deborah Minnig
Intensive Care Unit Office
Petersgraben 4
4031 Basel

Please enclose a detailed curriculum vitae in tabular form:

• Personal details
• career
• Details of all clinical traineeships, including those planned
• Topic of doctoral thesis
• photo
• Certificate of enrollment
• Physics certificate