Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Overview

Thank you for your interest in the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Harvard Medical School. The primary objective of the fellowship program is to provide fellows with a learning environment that will enable them to become expert practitioners and leaders in the field of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. The fellowship director and associate director work closely with each fellow throughout their three years of training to tailor his/her experience to meet individual career aspirations. In the past this has included the design of ABP-approved dual subspecialty training in PCCM and other pediatric sub-specialties, including emergency medicine and pulmonology.

The program is configured to support six clinical fellows following the track toward certification by the sub-board of Pediatric Critical Care at the American Board of Pediatrics. The program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The goals of the program are four-fold:

1. To provide fellows with an understanding of the pathophysiology of life-threatening disease and injury and the cognitive and technical skills necessary to independently diagnose and manage critically ill infants, children and adolescents.

2) To foster an environment of intellectual curiosity, advance the fellows’ knowledge of the basic principles of research, and mentor each fellow in the pursuit of scholarly activity related to pediatric critical care.

3) To enable fellows to become effective educators in pediatric critical care medicine.

4) To help the fellows become efficient administrators, through supervised acquisition of experience in management and problem-solving in a multidisciplinary pediatric intensive care unit.