Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program

               Dr. Jennie Stover, Alumni Fellow, on rounds with Dr. Sally Vitali

The pediatric critical care medicine fellowship program at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and meets all requirements of the American Board of Pediatrics. In addition, our program is a recognized training site by the Intercollegiate Committee for Training in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine (ICTPICM) 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 faculty in the Division of Critical Care Medicine have dual appointments in the Departments of Anesthesia at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Traci Wolbrink, Faculty Member, and Dr. Catherine Humikowski, Alumni Fellow

Children's is a 395-bed institution located in the center of the Harvard Medical School complex. Most of the fellows' training takes place in 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 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.