• Carrie L Radabaugh, Holly S Ruch-Ross, Carley L Riley, Jana A Stockwell, Edward E Conway, Richard B Mink, Michael S Agus, W Bradley Poss, Richard A Salerno, and Donald D Vernon.
• 1Department of Education, American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, IL. 2Consultant to the Department of Education, American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, IL. 3Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine; Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, New Haven, CT. 4Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine & Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Atlanta, GA. 5Milton and Bernice Stern Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY. 6Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. 7Division of Critical Care Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 8Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT. 9Fortin Pediatric Specialty Clinic, St. Vincent Healthcare, Billings, MT.
• Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2015 Oct 1; 16 (8): e308-12.

ObjectiveTo obtain current data on practice patterns of the U.S. pediatric critical care medicine workforce.Data SourcesMembership of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Critical Care and individuals certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in pediatric critical care medicine.Study SelectionAll active members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Critical Care, and nonduplicative individuals certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in pediatric critical care medicine, were classified as eligible to participate in this electronically administered workforce survey.Data ExtractionData were extracted by a doctorate-level research professional. Extracted data included demographic information, work environment, number of hours worked, training, clinical responsibilities, work satisfaction and burnout, and plans to leave the practice of pediatric critical care medicine.Data SynthesisOf 1,857 individuals contacted, 923 completed the survey (49.7%). The majority of respondents were white, male, non-Hispanic, university-employed, and taught residents. Respondents who worked full time were on clinical intensive care service for a median of 15 wk/yr and responsible for a median of 13 ICU beds, working a median of 60 hr/wk. Total night call responsibility was a median of 60 nights/yr; about half of respondents indicated night call was in-hospital. Fewer than half were engaged in basic science or clinical research. Compared with earlier data, there was minimal change in work hours and proportion of time devoted to research, but there was an increase in the proportion of female pediatric critical care medicine physicians.ConclusionsThese data provide a description of the typical intensivist and a snapshot of the current pediatric critical care medicine workforce, which may be experiencing a mild-to-moderate undersupply. The results are useful for assessing the current workforce and valuable for future planning.

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