The Pediatric Critical Care Nephrology Instructor program at Baylor College of Medicine provides specialized training for graduates of Pediatric Critical Care, Pediatric Nephrology, or Perinatal/Neonatal Medicine fellowships to foster future clinical research collaboration between pediatric nephrologists, pediatric intensivists, and neonatologists and to provide additional training in extracorporeal therapies.
There are three available tracks for the instructors depending on their background and future career development.
Critical Care
This additional training is for critical care physicians who wish to enhance their understanding of fluid and electrolyte management, acute kidney injury diagnosis and management as well as application of renal extracorporeal therapies in the pediatric intensive care unit. Additionally, it is a platform to gain more experience in renal replacement therapy utilization especially for those who seek to serve geographic areas where expertise in pediatric dialysis is limited.
Nephrology
The instructorship is also available to graduates of pediatric nephrology fellowship programs. The goal of this program is to provide education in the theoretical and practical aspects of critical care medicine to help instructors develop a high level of competence in managing patients with life-threatening illnesses with a high degree of physiological instability. The instructors will be expected to complete an original clinical research project in the area of pediatric acute kidney injury or renal replacement therapy while gaining full expertise in all extracorporeal therapies offered by Texas Children’s Critical Care Nephrology program.
Neonatology
For neonatology graduates interested in further training in Critical Care Nephrology, an optional one-year of training is available through the Critical Care Nephrology Instructor Program. The goal of this program is to provide education in the theoretical and practical aspects of nephrology as practiced in the critical care setting, specifically the NICU to help instructors develop a high level of understanding of dialytic and nondialytic therapies for common renal diseases in the neonate.