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 income fellows getting important fundamental information.
Example:
| Week | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 |
| 1 | Board Review or Mathletics | Case conference | Sentinel Article or EBM JC |
| 2 | Book to Bedside | Cardiac ICU Conference | Rotating (Palliative, BMT, Faculty Development) |
| 3 | Research Baltimore (JH) | Research/QI | Fellowship Meeting |
| 4 | Sim | Neuro ICU Conference | Didactic |
| 5 | Didactic | Health Disparities | Leadership/Wellness |
Learn More
Learn more about the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital.