Curriculum

The Pediatric Critical Care Medicine fellowship curriculum is intended to couple direct patient care experiences with didactic education, simulation, and hands-on training. These include core curriculum, sentinel article reviews, a focus on evidence based medicine, collaboration with subspecialty services, and education innovation. Our fellows are encouraged to tailor their training to suit their career goals. Examples of unique tracks include:

• Simulation track
• Medical education track
• Clinical and translational investigator track
• Healthcare quality and safety track
• Palliative care track

Rotations

• Scholarship: 44 weeks
• PICU: 56 weeks 
• CVICU: 16 weeks 
• Trauma: 2 weeks 
• Cath lab: 2 weeks
• Anesthesia: 4 weeks 
• Elective (choice of emergency medicine, toxicology, biomedical ethics or palliative care): 12 weeks 
• QI project: 4 weeks
• Vacation: 12 weeks
• Total: 156 weeks 

Academic Half-Day

The academic half-day is weekly on Wednesday afternoons and is primarily led by faculty. It is an 18-month cycle ABP-based themes with a back-to-basic month every July to focus on the incoming fellows getting important fundamental information.

Example topics:

Physiology Based Lectures

• Book to Bedside
• Scully’s Physiology
• ECMO

Scholarship/Academics

• Sentinel article review
• Scholarship Methodology
• Fast Journal Club

Subspecialties

• CVICU & Surgery
• Neuro Conference
• Palliative
• BMT Joint Conference

Resiliency/Program Improvement

• Fellow Meeting
• Wellness
• Ethics

Skill Based Lectures

• POCUS
• Simulation
• Board Review/Mathletics