Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

The Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the premier multidisciplinary training programs in the Southeast. Our Fellowship is a three-year program accredited by the American Board of Pediatrics. The fellowship is designed to provide excellent educational opportunities, clinical training in all aspects of critical care, and strong research opportunities in both basic and clinical research, as well as quality improvement and medical education.

About half of the three-year fellowship is spent in clinical training and half is spent on research. The first year of the fellowship places emphasis on clinical practice with specialized training rotations in pediatric anesthesia and pediatric pain. The second year is focused on research and growing clinical leadership responsibilities, while the final year is flexible and designed to provide individuals with clinical, research and educational opportunities to meet their educational and training needs.

The primary clinical training takes place in a 20 bed unit which includes both a multi-disciplinary PICU and PCICU (Pediatric Cardiac ICU) located in UNC Children’s Hospital on the UNC Medical Campus in Chapel Hill, NC. The UNC Children’s Hospital is the only Level 1 pediatric trauma center in the region and has the only pediatric burn center and pediatric airway center in the state, providing fellows with unique patient populations and training opportunities.