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Pediatric critical care is an important subspecialty in medicine. Critical care physicians provide intensive care to children with critical or unstable conditions. Because pediatric critical care is a high-risk and time-consuming field, the fellowship training is clinically intense and often does not allow for adequate development of physician scientists. The field is in need of translational researchers, those who can move clinical problems into the laboratory and incorporate scientific findings into bedside care. This type of research requires a physician scientists who maintain a sound research career in addition to providing excellent clinical care.
The Pediatric Critical Care Scientist Development Program (PCCSDP) is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to select the most outstanding junior faculty candidates for sustained trianing as PCCSDP Scholars in excellent research settings throughout the United States.
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