In addition, our program is a recognized training site by the Intercollegiate Committee for Training in Pediatric Intensive Care of the United Kingdom.

The fellowship program is designed to educate individuals interested in pursuing an academic career in pediatric critical care medicine. All of the program's professional staff have dual appointments at Children's with the Departments of Anesthesia and Pediatrics. In addition, all of the program's professional staff hold dual faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School with the Departments of Anesthesia and Pediatrics.

Children's Hospital is a 325-bed institution located in the center of the Harvard Medical School complex. Most of the fellows' clinical training takes place at the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit (MSICU) and the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU). The MSICU, with approximately 2,000 admissions annually, provides all critical care services for our very active programs in medicine, general surgery, transplantation, neurosurgery, craniofacial reconstruction, orthopedics, otolaryngology and trauma. In addition, the unit serves as one of the largest extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) centers in the United States with approximately 60 children treated annually.

In the adjacent CICU fellows care for the full spectrum of pediatric cardiac disease, including more than 700 postoperative patients per year following cardiopulmonary bypass. This represents the highest volume of pediatric cardiac surgery utilizing cardiopulmonary bypass in the world.

Finally, there are several months for clinical elective/establishment of a research project and 20 working days are provided for vacation. Up to five work days may be used annually for attendance at a scientific meeting.

• Children's Hospital Boston is the geographic center of the Harvard Medical School Complex. There are close relationships with investigators at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, many surgical and medical departments at Children's, the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital.

• Children's Hospital Boston is the major New England extracorporeal life support provider for neonates and children as well as the region's Level I Trauma Center for Pediatrics.

• Children's Hospital has consistently been rated by physicians across the United States in the U.S. News & World Report as the best pediatric hospital in the country.

Joint conferences with the CICU staff are regularly scheduled. Members of the subspecialty divisions of the Department of Medicine and Surgery visit on a regularly scheduled basis, providing didactic seminars and informal discussion sessions. Finally, our unit has the first and most sophisticated simulator suite for pediatrics in the United States and fellows spend considerable time learning in that environment.

Division of Critical Care Medicine
Children's Hospital Boston, Farley 517
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 USA