The Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Program provides one year of comprehensive training in providing anesthesia for neonates, infants and children undergoing:
It also covers an overview of intensive care issues for pediatric patients. Every year, one or two candidates are accepted into the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Program at Tufts Medical Center.
Our ACGME-accredited 12-month fellowship qualifies successful graduates as pediatric anesthesiologists and fulfills the requirements of this and most other institutions for credentialing of anesthesiologists who provide anesthesia for neonatal and pediatric patients.
The period spent in the fellowship can be no less than 12 months, with no more than one interrupted period due to reasonable circumstances.
The Fellowships aims to provide a broad clinical experience in pediatric anesthesiology fostering proficiency in providing excellent care to neonates, infants, children, and adolescents undergoing a wide variety of surgical, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures.
The academic year is broadly divided as follows:
The Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship provides one year of comprehensive training in pediatric anesthesia and related diagnostic and therapeutic procedures involving infants and children.
This fellowship qualifies successful graduates as specialists in pediatric anesthesia and fulfills the requirements of this and most other institutions for credentialing of anesthesiologists who provide anesthesia for the preterm infant, neonate, infant or child undergoing surgery.
By the end of your training, you will experience:
Fellows are evaluated via the new innovations online portal. The evaluation format is based on the six core ACGME competencies. At the end of the first six months, the fellowship director gives a formal evaluation. This is good opportunity and forum for both the fellow and the fellowship director to discuss overall feedback, goals and objectives and areas of concern.
A final evaluation is done on completion of the fellowship program. “360 degree” evaluations are used during the year to get feedback from other health care providers (surgeons, nursing staff and ancillary support staff), patients and their families.
Fellows complete their training at Tufts Medical Center, a world-class academic medical center located in Boston and the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine. It also sponsors nineteen specialty ACGME-accredited clinical training programs.
Tufts Medical Center is a 415-bed robust organization, providing everything from routine medical care to treating the most complex diseases affecting adults and children. Tufts Medical Center is also home to the Tufts Medical Center, a full-service children's hospital dedicated exclusively to all levels of pediatric care.
Tufts Medical Center provides heart, kidney and bone marrow transplants, is a level I trauma center, provides comprehensive neurological and neurosurgical care, and offers cutting-edge cancer treatments.
Tufts Medical Center is also home to The Boston Gamma Knife Center, the first and only Gamma Knife Center in Massachusetts and northern New England.
All candidates for the fellowship program must be currently enrolled in an ACGME-accredited core residency program, or be a recent graduate from such a program. They must be eligible for a Massachusetts Medical License.
The Tufts Medical Center Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Program offers 2 positions each year through the NRMP Match. Preferred fellowship training start dates are July 1st, or August 1st, however under special circumstances, variable start dates can be negotiated.
Applications for our one-year ACGME Accredited Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship are accepted through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) only. Our ACGME Program ID for your reference is – 0422421026 – Tufts Medical Center Program.
The deadline for submission of applications through ERAS is May 31st. All letters of recommendation should be addressed to the fellowship director, Dr. Aman Kalra.
Selected candidates will be offered interviews beginning April through late August.
Please do not send application materials directly to us.
If you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact our program coordinator Nichole Formicola.
Nichole Formicola Program Coordinator, Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Program Department of Anesthesiology, Tufts Medical Center 800 Washington Street, Box 298 Boston, MA 02111 Phone: 617-636-2615 Fax: 617-636-8384 Email: nformicola@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Salary is monthly and based on an annual stipend.
Graduate Medical Education (GME) stipend levels
Vacation time includes fifteen working days and five CME days per year.
To learn more, contact:
Nichole Formicola, MHA Manager, Anesthesiology Education Programs Department of Anesthesiology, Tufts Medical Center 800 Washington Street, Box 298 Phone: 617-636-2615 Fax: 617-636-8384 Email: nformicola@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Aman Kalra, MD Chief, Division of Pediatric Anesthesia Director, Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Program Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Tufts Medical Center 800 Washington Street, Box 298 Boston, MA 02111 Tel: 617 636 3230 Fax: 617 636 8384 www.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/anesthesiology www.maskinduction.com (Our Division’s Digital Pediatric Anesthesia Handbook)
