Training fellows and residents in paediatric cardiac critical care.
As pediatric cardiac critical care becomes more sub-specialized it is reasonable to assume that dedicated units may provide a better infrastructure for improved multidisciplinary care, cardiac-specific patient safety initiatives, and dedicated training of fellows and residents. The knowledge base required to optimally manage pediatric patients with critical cardiac disease has evolved sufficiently to consider a standardized training curriculum and board certification for pediatric cardiac critical care. This strategy would potentially provide consistency of training and healthcare and improve quality of care and patient safety.
1Benioff Children's Hospital,University of California San Francisco,San Francisco,California,United States of America.
Sarah
S
Tabbutt
2Children's Hospital of Wisconsin,Medical College of Wisconsin,Milwaukee, Wisconsin,United States of America.
Nancy
N
Ghanayem
3Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute,Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital,Saint Petersburg,Florida,United States of America.
Melvin C
MC
Almodovar
4CS Mott Children's Hospital,University of Michigan,Ann Arbor,Michigan,United States of America.
John
J
Charpie
5Lucile Packard Children's Hospital,Stanford University,Paolo Alto,California,United States of America.
Stephen J
SJ
Roth
6Children's Healthcare of Atlanta,Emory University,Atlanta,Georgia,United States of America.
James
J
Fortenberry
7Baylor College of Medicine,Texas Children's Hospital,Houston,Texas,United States of America.
Ron
R
Bronicki
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Cardiac critical care; care; curriculum; fellow training; pediatric cardiac critical; postgraduate medical education