Northwestern McGaw offers a one-year fellowship in surgical critical care. Approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the program is based at and uses the facilities of Children’s Memorial Hospital. Successful completion of the fellowship allows participants to seek the Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgical Critical Care from the American Board of Surgery. Fellows are exposed to the complexities and difficulties of caring for neonates and for children with cancer, respiratory failure, and end-stage organ disease leading to transplantation. The hospital is an active Level I Trauma center. Exposure to adult critical care is provided at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Approximately one month is set aside for vacation and meetings. Fellows rotate through the anesthesia department, neonatology, pediatric critical care, pediatric surgery, and trauma. Four months are spent in the adult surgical ICU at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Fellows participate in critical care teaching of junior housestaff members. Fellows receive training in ECMO and pediatric and neonatal resuscitation. Children's Memorial Hospital is the primary pediatric teaching hospital of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. Pediatrics and pediatric surgery faculty members are housed at the hospital in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago, approximately four miles from the Loop and three miles from the University's medical campus. Children's Memorial has 265 inpatient beds, 13 operating rooms, large and busy neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, an emergency room with Level I trauma service, and the standard inpatient units of a metropolitan pediatric referral center. Candidates must be currently enrolled in or have completed an approved general surgery residency. Two positions in the Pediatric Surgery Critical Care program are offered each year through the National Resident Matching Program. Anthony Chin, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
For more information, contact the Division of Pediatric Surgery, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Children's Memorial Hospital, 2300 Children's Plaza, Box 63, Chicago, Illinois 60614-3394, 773/880-4912; fax 773/880-4588 or visit the Department of Surgery Web site.
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