The Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is an ACGME-accredited three-year program intended to prepare the pediatrician for subspecialty certification in critical care by the American Board of Pediatrics. The major goal of the program is the development of technical and cognitive competence in managing critically ill children, with additional emphasis on the acquisition of administrative and investigative skills.
Our fellowship program is centered in the 23-bed multidisciplinary Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) which includes a three-bed, state-of-the-art Pediatric Neurocritical Care Unit. The Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine is responsible for children from one day to 21 years of age with complex medical and surgical illness. The unit is "closed" and the critical care staff is responsible for all aspects of patient care in collaboration with referring and consulting services. Infants and children recover in the PICU following cardiothoracic, neurologic, airway and other complex surgeries.
Sources for patient referrals include the inpatient pediatric units of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) and the NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital the emergency departments and pediatric service units of other NYPH Healthcare System institutions, as well as non-network hospitals in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is designated as a Level 1 trauma center for both adults and children. The unit is staffed by pediatric critical care nurses who work exclusively within the PICU and regularly participate in rounds, multidisciplinary conferences and other teaching activities.
The medical staff consists of eleven pediatric critical care attending physicians and six pediatric critical care fellows. Pediatric and anesthetic residents, as well as Physician Assistants (PAs) working under direct supervision of an attending physician and critical care fellow, support the critical care staff. A fellow and attending physician are staffed in the PICU 24 hours a day.
The NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine PICU has close and longstanding affiliations with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), both of which transfer critically ill children to our unit. In addition to particular expertise in the delivery of oncologic and neurologic critical care, we also care for children with critical burn injuries in a collaborative fashion with medical and nursing staff of the William Randolph Hearst Burn Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. NYPH maintains an active local and regional transport system staffed by paramedics and physicians.