Fellowship Program

Established in 1986, the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a three-year, ACGME-accredited program that provides training in all aspects of Pediatric Critical Care. During the comprehensive program at CHAM, fellows hone their clinical, administrative, and research expertise under the supervision of eight subspecialty board-certified Pediatric Critical Care Intensivists. 

Clinical Experience

The majority of the clinical experience is provided in the 16-bed critical care unit (PCCU) at CHAM.  The unit is a ‘closed unit,' in which the critical care team is primarily responsible for the care of all medical and surgical patients in collaboration with the appropriate consultants. The patient population represented in the PCCU spans the entire range of pediatric critical care medicine, with strong surgical representation in cardiothoracic surgery, solid organ transplant, and neurosurgery. Experience in transport medicine is offered through our active transport program, which draws patients from the Bronx, as well as the entire Metropolitan area. 
In addition to comprehensive education in standard critical care procedures and management, fellows receive extensive training in all methods of advanced therapeutics, including nonconventional respiratory support, ECMO, ventricular assist devices and renal replacement therapy.

Curriculum

Fellows enjoy rich and varied educational opportunities during the three-year training program.  Twice weekly conferences encompass a core lecture series, case conferences, journal clubs, and research presentations.  Fellows also participate in morbidity and mortality conferences and quality assessment and improvement projects.

Further enrichment is available at Grand Rounds, cardiac catheterization conferences, and airway management conferences, as well as a broad range of teaching series and lectures provided throughout the Albert Einstein College of Medicine network. Additionally, all fellows train with state-of-the-art equipment and participate in a departmental course, which encompasses research study design and implementation, biostatistics, grant and transcript preparation, as well as ethics, teaching and mentoring.

Research

Mentored research in both laboratory and clinical studies is available within the Division of Critical Care and throughout the Albert Einstein College of Medicine   The Division is a participating member of the PALISI network, a multicenter group of Pediatric Critical Care investigators evaluating acute lung injury, sepsis, and other pediatric critical care issues.

With 300 research laboratories, Einstein enjoys a distinguished reputation as a national leader in biomedical research. The NIH funds major research centers at Einstein in diabetes, cancer, liver disease, and AIDS.  Other areas of investigative concentration include: developmental brain research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities.  

Recent fellows have completed studies and findings on various subjects such as:

• The effects of chronic hypercapnia in neonatal mouse lung and brain
• Hydrogen sulfide therapy for congestive heart failure
• Metformin therapy and cardioprotection in heart failure
• Prostaglandin transporter expression in mouse brain during hypoxia
• Airway inflammation and responsiveness in rats with chronic Cryptococcus neoformans infection

Applying for Fellowship Positions

Qualified candidates for the Critical Care Fellowship program should apply through the ERAS Program of the Association of American Medical Colleges (http://www.aamc.org/students/erasfellow/start.htm). Please include the following materials with your universal fellowship application:

• Updated curriculum vitae
• Personal statement of career objectives
• Three letters of recommendation
• Official test transcripts (i.e. USMLE)
• A valid ECFMG certificate (if you graduated from a medical school outside of the United States)
• A copy of your medical school diploma
• Photograph

For more information or further assistance, please contact Dr. Lewis Singer, Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, at 718-741-2477 or LSinger@montefiore.org.