title: A curriculum in critical care medicine for maternal-fetal medicine fellows.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Critical care education in maternal-fetal medicine has typically been limited or has been driven entirely by clinical cases. A pilot program was created to systematize critical care training within the context of an existing maternal-fetal medicine fellowship.
  
  
  METHODS
  The program included a lecture series, a Web-based learning module, specific scenarios played out in a human simulator lab, and a clinical intensive care unit rotation. Fellows' knowledge was assessed by pre- and posttest.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Objective knowledge was demonstrated to increase after 1 yr of training. Fellows' impression of the curriculum was positive.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More structured critical care medicine training is feasible within a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship. A multimodal curriculum to teach critical care within a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship appears promising and could be implemented elsewhere. Interest in this area should be cultivated.
authors.affiliation: Thomas Jefferson University, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Anesthesiology, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Lauren A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Plante
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D003479:Curriculum; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000193:education*; D009862:Online Systems; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States