Seven pediatric medical education programs at Holtz Childrens Hospital located on the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center received continued accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The Pediatric Residency received a five-year continued accreditation the maximum granted by ACGME. Few programs receive this long-term classification. The Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship received a three-year continued accreditation and five other training programs in Neonatology, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Endocrinology, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Pediatric Infectious Diseases received continued accreditation as well.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is a private, non-profit council that evaluates and accredits medical residency programs in the United States. In order to receive accreditation, the programs must provide graduate physicians with educational experiences that offer broad exposure in the treatment of children while providing progressive responsibilities. The programs must also help physicians achieve competency in patient care, medical knowledge, professionalism, communication skills, and practice-based improvement and learning techniques. The programs are based out of Holtz Childrens Hospital. Under the leadership of Director Barry Gelman, M.D., physicians in the three-year Pediatric Residency Program train with attending physicians in many areas of the hospital, including Holtzs new, state-of-the-art Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and its Neonatal Intensive Care Units. “We are very proud of our programs and the dedicated staff and physicians who are the driving forces behind them,” said Dr. Gelman. “The ACGME judges programs first and foremost on the quality of the education and training. These accreditations further solidify these programs as among the best in the country. We continue to rise to the challenge of training the next generation of pediatric physicians who will care for children around the world with knowledge, expertise and compassion.” The Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, directed by newly appointed Sethuraman Swaminathan, M.D., also offers fellows a unique experience, including exposure to culturally diverse patients and children with a wide-range of cardiac illnesses. Additionally, fellows train with the Miami Transplant Institute at UM/Jackson.
