Fellowship Training

CARE team group photo and volunteering at Kids Meals

The Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship is a three-year, ACGME-accredited program that trains pediatricians to become clinical, academic, educational, community, and administrative leaders in the field of Child Abuse Pediatrics (CAP).

CARE Team fellows and faculty in park

The CAP Fellowship program offers a broad range of experiences and training opportunities to ensure the practitioner is ready to provide care in a variety of settings. Unless a fellow already holds an advanced degree in public health or clinical research, each fellow will also complete a series of core lectures in clinical biostatistics and research design during the training period that may lead to the completion of an advanced degree. Fellows receive faculty support to produce at least one scholarly project to meet ABP requirements but are encouraged to participate in additional scholarly activities according to their interests. Fellows will have an opportunity to develop and deliver presentations to a variety of audiences on child-maltreatment topics to instill confidence and spark a passion to advocate for their patients and families. Fellows who complete the program are eligible to take the Child Abuse Pediatrics certifying examination.

We have a 100% CAP Board passage rate, and all of our graduate fellows have academic appointments as full-time child abuse pediatricians at well-established programs.

Objectives

Training and direct experience a busy inpatient consult service, an outpatient child-protection clinic, and 12 months of dedicated research/scholarly time
Hands-on experience through rotations in forensic pathology, behavior/development, advocacy, and related pediatric subspecialties as well as practice serving as an expert witness in a “mock trial”
Opportunities to serve in a supervisory role to more junior residents and medical students while on service and practice in developing a team approach to the medical care of maltreatment victims
Opportunities for research in the basic and clinical sciences in various fields of study in the Texas Medical Center and courses in our renowned Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine