Overview of the Program
Our program’s aims are encompassed below:
- Expand and apply medical knowledge and practice-based learning through scholarship and presentations at local, regional, and national meetings, including publications.
- Ensure that fellows are well-prepared to treat our community’s diverse patient population with the latest advances in management of care for critically ill patients, as measured by ITE scores and Board certification rates at or above the national average.
- Establish in our fellows a culture of patient safety and quality improvement as measured by documented fellow contributions to departmental and/or institutional patient safety and quality improvement efforts. These will encompass professionalism, citizenship and system-based learning skills.
Our Programs Goals and Objectives around our Core Aspects of Clinical Education include:
- Patient Care: Fellows are expected to render patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health. The program will provide fellows with the opportunity to master the knowledge and skills necessary to diagnose and manage pediatric patients with critical care diseases. Additionally, fellows will be trained in the selection, performance, and interpretation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures used in critical care medicine.
- Medical Knowledge: Fellows are expected to acquire the knowledge about the established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate (e.g. epidemiological and social-behavioral) sciences necessary to provide compassionate, appropriate, and effective patient care. This will include specific knowledge of development, anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, and epidemiology of critical care diseases.
- Practice-Based Learning and Improvement: Fellows are expected to participate in an ongoing process that involves the investigating and evaluating their own patient care, appraisal and assimilation of scientific knowledge, and improvements in patient care. Fellows are expected to engage in Scholarly Activity. The program will aid fellows in developing the knowledge and skills needed to engage in clinical research and Quality Improvement. Critical care thinking and team-training simulation activities are an essential part of the fellowship training.
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Fellows are expected to demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that will result in an effective information exchange and teaming with patients, patients’ families, and other healthcare professionals. The program will work with fellows to enhance their skills as educators of patients, families, and allied health care professionals.
- Professionalism: Fellows are expected to demonstrate a high degree of professionalism as manifested through a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.
- Systems-Based Practice: Fellows are expected to demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care. They should demonstrate the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value.