The fellowship program offers broad-based training in both the practice of pediatric critical care medicine and the conduct of biomedical research related to pediatric critical care. Emphasis is placed on the stabilization and management of the critically ill child with acute single or multisystem organ failure due to cardiac, pulmonary, infectious, neurologic or traumatic illness. The PICU serves active programs in pediatric cardiac surgery, general surgery, trauma surgery and bone marrow and solid organ transplantation. Critical care fellows participate actively in the multidisciplinary teams responsible for the care of those patients, including the medical PICU team and a dedicated cardiac ICU team. Research training is continued throughout all years of fellowship training even though clinical training is emphasized during the first year.
Research is supervised by one or more of our faculty members.
Strong, NIH funded research programs are available in pulmonary vascular disease, oxygen radical induced organ injury, mechanisms of airway reactivity, interstitial lung disease and perinatal metabolism. In addition, several members of the Departments of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Cardiology and Anesthesiology provide key roles in the education and training of the fellows. The first year is designed to provide the fellow trainee with the necessary experience to become an excellent clinician and teacher in the field of critical care medicine. The year is fully structured and almost entirely clinical. Fellows are primarily responsible for all medical patients in the PICU, and co-manage all surgical patients.