Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program

Number of fellows taken per year: 2-3
Deadline for application to your program (if applicable): August 31st for a July start date
Duration of appointment: 3 years
Other sites of training: Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Postgraduate training required (1,2,3 years): 3 years
US Citizenship required: NO

Director of training program: Niurka Rivero, M.D.
Phone: (323) 361-2557
FAX: (323) 361-1001
E-mail: nrivero@chla.usc.edu
Address: Childrens Hospital Los Angeles,
Division of Critical Care Medicine
4650 Sunset Blvd., M/S #12
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Description of fellowship:
The Division of Critical Care Medicine at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles was formed in 1980, and the Fellowship Program was initiated in 1981.  Currently there is a 20-bed Pediatric ICU and a 15-bed Cardiothoracic ICU that jointly admit over 2,000 children annually. The Fellowship Program currently includes nine Clinical Fellows and is a three-year training program based on and adhering to the general requirements of the Subspecialty Committee of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine of the Board of Pediatrics.  The Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship is accredited by the Residency Review Committee for Pediatrics and the ACGME.

There are thirteen Critical Care Attending physicians who have expertise and are board certified in critical care, and some have additional board certifications in Pulmonology and Anesthesiology. There are extensive research opportunities both within the Department and the Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Research Institute. These include training in research techniques in both clinical and basic science research. Training opportunities are also offered in flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy, anesthesia, pain management and sedation.  Elective rotations within CHLA or outside institutions may be arranged.

Critical Care Medicine at CHLA is dedicated to providing superb clinical care for infants and children who are in need of critical care and support. The full spectrum of critical illness in children is encountered in the program’s two ICU’s including trauma, infectious disease, complex respiratory disease, poisoning, hepatic failure, transplantation (heart, lung, kidney, liver, and small bowel), shock, congenital heart disease and its complications, surgical management, renal failure and immune compromise. The Division of Critical Care Medicine strives to provide an excellent education to its trainees, to instruct them fully in the clinical, administrative, ethical, humanitarian, teaching, and leadership & professionalism aspects of Intensive Care and to give trainees an understanding of research methodology. The educational mission of the program includes training highly skilled, future, pediatric intensivists and it has a highly selective, fully accredited Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program, which currently has 9 Fellows in training.

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