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Fellowships and Residencies
Administrative Fellowship
The 12-month Texas Children’s Hospital Administrative Fellowship is designed to develop future healthcare leaders. This comprehensive program provides early careerists with exposure to executive leadership in the nation’s largest children’s hospital.
Adolescent Medicine Fellowship
Our Adolescent Medicine fellows will become health leaders who demonstrate expertise in clinical service, teaching, scholarly activity, administration and advocacy in adolescent health. The Adolescent Medicine interdisciplinary faculty includes 5 board-certified adolescent medicine physicians, 3 mental health providers and 2 dietitians who comprehensively address complex medical problems including: eating disorders, obesity, young women's health care needs and chronic fatigue.
Cardiology Fellowship
The Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine is designed for three years of clinical and research training. Fourth-year advanced training opportunities have traditionally been offered in every subspecialty. In the first year, the trainee rotates through echocardiography, electrophysiology, cardiac catheterization, the cardiovascular intensive care unit and inpatient services. The second and third years involve rotations through those clinical areas and others with more responsibility on the part of the trainee. Our curriculum also includes elective time and 12 months of research.
Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship
The robust volume of Texas Children's Hospital within the Texas Medical Center offers two first-year CAP fellows positions in 2018 for an unmatched array of learning opportunities in pathophysiology and psychosocial dynamics. The Children's Assessment Center (CAC) in Houston also partners with the Child Abuse Pediatrics faculty to serve the child sexual abuse victims of Houston. Clinical experience will include inpatient and outpatient consultation on cases of possible abuse and neglect, the provision of clinical care to children and adolescents in the Child Protective Health Outpatient Clinic as well as at the medical clinic of the CAC. Trainees will become involved with the medico-legal aspects of child maltreatment education in family and criminal courts within Harris and its surrounding counties. The program will also consider the support of Master's degree coursework pursued during training (clinical research, public health, or education).
Community Surgical Physician Assistant Fellowship
The Community Surgery Physician Assistant Fellowship Program at Texas Children’s Hospital is the first of its kind in the country to provide a specialized training opportunity specifically for physician assistants. This intensive12-month didactic and clinical pediatric training program ensures a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a full spectrum of pediatric community surgical subspecialties, including general pediatric surgery, orthopedics, otolaryngology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, surgical hospitalists, and urology.
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Our Critical Care Medicine fellows train in a 31-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), a 21-bed Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU), and a 36-bed Progressive Care Unit (PCU) to master the latest practices in patient care and research.
Cardiac Critical Care Instructorship
We offer an additional one-year pediatric cardiac intensive care instructorship to 4th year fellows interested in pursuing additional training in pediatric cardiovascular intensive care medicine. Candidates must have completed fellowships in pediatric critical care medicine or pediatric cardiology.
Developmental-Behavioral Fellowship
The Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric Fellowship is a 3-year, ACGME-approved fellowship program that provides training in the evaluation and longitudinal management of infants, children and adolescents with a spectrum of neurodevelopmental disabilities and behavior disorders, such as learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, complications of prematurity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Endocrinology Fellowship
The Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital is an accredited program through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education that provides comprehensive clinical and research experience in Pediatric Endocrinology. With up to four fellows per year, our program is one of the largest pediatric endocrinology fellowships in the United States.
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Fellowship
Faculty in our department perform over 15,000 outpatient and over 4,000 in-patient consultations yearly, allowing for the opportunity to train in a wide variety of clinical and research settings.
Global Child Health Residency
Our innovative program provides 36 months of training through pediatric rotations in the United States and 12 months of training at one of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) Centers of Excellence in Africa.
Global Women’s Health Fellowship
The goal of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Global Women’s Health Fellowship is to provide the fully-boarded or board-eligible obstetrician/gynecologist with additional clinical training and research experience in a global setting.
Headache Fellowship Program
The one-year fellowship focuses specifically on pediatric headache, including inpatient and outpatient headache management.
Infectious Disease Fellowship Program
The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program is a three-year training program designed to prepare pediatricians for a career in pediatric infectious diseases. The first year of fellowship is primarily dedicated to clinical training at Texas Children’s Hospital. Years two and three of the fellowship program are dedicated to receiving basic, translational or clinical mentored research training. In addition to the clinical and research training, the Baylor pediatric infectious diseases fellows complete rotations in clinical microbiology/virology, molecular microbiology, retrovirology, and a one-month course in the fundamentals of clinical investigation.
Cancer and Hematology Center Fellowship and Educational Opportunities
As one of the finest pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship programs in the nation, our center is training fellows to obtain outstanding clinical and laboratory research knowledge, paving the future of pediatric cancer and blood disorder care.
- Hematology/Oncology Fellowship
As one of the largest accredited pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship programs in the country and among the finest in the nation, our experts are training board-eligible and board-certified pediatricians to become sub-specialists in pediatric hematology-oncology.
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- Hematology/Oncology Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship
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- Oncology Clinical Research Faculty Fellowship
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- Immunotherapy Fellowship
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- Leukemia Fellowship
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- Long-Term Survivor Fellowship
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- Lymphoma/Histiocytosis Fellowship
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- Neuro-oncology Fellowship
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- Solid Tumor Fellowship
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- Stem Cell Transplant Fellowship
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- East Africa Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship
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Neonatology Education
Educational opportunities, including neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowships and training for medical students, residents, and nutritionists in patient care and research.
Nephrology Residency or Fellowship
We offer both residency opportunities and fellowship opportunities in both pediatric nephrology and pediatric critical care nephrology.
Neurology Residency
Our residents and fellows in pediatric neurology have the opportunity to train with the best pediatric neurologists and developmental neuroscientists.
Neurosurgical Fellowship
This 1-year clinical fellowship prepares our fellows to provide the best in patient care while furthering the field through research in an academic medicine setting.
Neurosurgical Residency
Our 7-year residency program prepares our residents for both patient care and research by involving both an integrated 1-year internship and a year devoted to basic science or clinical research.
Nurse Residency Program
The Nurse Residency program is a six month program designed for first year nurses with an interest in women services and/or pediatric nursing.
Nutrition Internship or Fellowship
The Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) nutrition program allows participants to complete a dietetic internship while completing a LEAH fellowship.
Otolaryngology Fellowship
Our fellows train with a committed staff in both inpatient and outpatient settings, with the opportunity to log 500 to 1000 cases as a surgeon or assistant in their first year of training.
Orthopedic Fellowship Opportunities
- Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery
The ACGME-accredited and POSNA-accredited Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery fellowship program at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital includes broad-based exposure to all aspects of pediatric orthopedics. During this 1-year fellowship, up to 3 fellows will spend time rotating through Texas Children’s Hospital. The faculty consists of 18 full-time pediatric orthopedists and 1 adjunct pediatric spine surgeon involved in all areas of pediatric musculoskeletal care. We offer Texas Children's Hospital Department of Surgery and Baylor College of Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds, journal club, preoperative indications and postoperative review conferences, and didactic core curriculum lectures. Texas Children's Department of Surgery Research Division supports fellow research projects. Completing at least one clinical research project leading to manuscript publication in a peer-reviewed orthopedics journal is required. Learn More
- Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery Physician Assistant Fellowship
The program includes 10 months of clinical pediatric orthopedic surgical subspecialty experience with designated time for research. The remaining two months of the program are elective months, one month for each elective. Each participating fellow will determine, upon availability, the surgical subspecialty for their final two months in the program. All training will be provided within the Texas Children’s Hospital system, both in the medical center and surrounding locations, through the direct delegation and supervision of department supervising physicians. Learn More
- Texas Children’s / Baylor College of Medicine Orthopedic Surgery Research Fellowship
One-year funded opportunity is targeted to medical students interested in pediatric musculoskeletal clinical research. Fellows can hone skills in research methodology and participate in ongoing clinical research projects in a subspecialty area or areas of interest. For more information, please email OrthoResearch@texaschildrens.org.
- SICOT meets SICOT (SMS) Observership
The Division of Orthopedics collaborates with the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT) to offer members of SICOT the opportunity to pursue a one or two-month long observership with our faculty at Texas Children’s Hospital. SMS Observers are afforded diverse exposure to all fields of pediatric orthopedic surgery. For more information, please email OrthoResearch@texaschildrens.org.
- Visiting International Scholar Program (VISP)
Under the scholar program, the Division of Orthopedics invites 1-2 international fellows, doctors or healthcare providers per year to visit the hospital and shadow our orthopedic surgeons in month-long rotations. For more information, please email OrthoResearch@texaschildrens.org.
Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Fellowship
Since its inception in July 2004, the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology fellowship has provided comprehensive training in both medical and surgical aspects of pediatric and adolescent gynecology utilizing the resources of the Texas Medical Center.
Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Pediatric palliative care is specialized medical care for children with serious and chronic illnesses. It focuses on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness to improve quality of life for both the child and the family.
Pediatric Residency Education (General)
Learn about excellence in pediatric care in this partnership between Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, and Ben Taub General Hospital.
Pharmacy Residency Programs
Our pharmacy residencies create an environment conducive to developing the clinical skills of pharmacy students, residents, and pharmacists to provide optimal pediatric pharmacy care.
Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship
The Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship Program at Baylor College of Medicine is a one year non-ACGME accredited program that started in 2012. The scope of practice that our fellows are exposed to during their fellowship runs the spectrum of pediatric plastic surgery and craniofacial surgery.
Pediatric Transplant Nutrition Fellowship
The Pediatric Transplant Nutrition Practicums is offered for Registered Dietitians who work in the field of pediatric transplant (liver, lung, heart, kidney).
Radiology Fellowships
The fellowship includes rotations in all modalities of pediatric radiology, including ultrasound, CT, MRI, fluoroscopy, plain radiography, neuroradiology, interventional radiology, cardiac imaging, fetal imaging and nuclear medicine.
Sports Medicine Fellowship
The Pediatric Sports Medicine fellowship is an ACGME approved 1-year fellowship. Clinical experiences in the fellowship include adult and pediatric patients in clinic, collegiate and high school training rooms and event coverage, operating room, physical therapy gym and community endurance event coverage.
Sports Physical Therapy Residency
The 13-month sports physical therapy residency is focused on developing advanced clinical skills, education, clinical research, and leadership. It is designed according to the American Board of Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Education requirements.
Surgery Physician Assistant Fellowship
This 12-month clinical and didactic training program provides advanced surgical training to physician assistants.
Surgery Research Fellowships
3 fellowships offering opportunities for clinical and/or basic science training of the first caliber.
Urology Fellowship
Our pediatric urology fellows complete 1 year of clinical training and 1 year of basic science research to prepare them for a career in academic pediatric urology.