• Vijay Anand, David M Kwiatkowski, Nancy S Ghanayem, David M Axelrod, James DiNardo, Darren Klugman, Ganga Krishnamurthy, Stephanie Siehr, Daniel Stromberg, Andrew R Yates, Stephen J Roth, and David S Cooper.
• Department of Critical Care, Stollery Children's Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada vijay.anand@albertahealthservices.ca.
• World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2016 Jan 1; 7 (1): 81-8.

AbstractThe increase in pediatric cardiac surgical procedures and establishment of the practice of pediatric cardiac intensive care has created the need for physicians with advanced and specialized knowledge and training. Current training pathways to become a pediatric cardiac intensivist have a great deal of variability and have unique strengths and weaknesses with influences from critical care, cardiology, neonatology, anesthesiology, and cardiac surgery. Such variability has created much confusion among trainees looking to pursue a career in our specialized field. This is a report with perspectives from the most common advanced fellowship training pathways taken to become a pediatric cardiac intensivist as well as various related topics including scholarship, qualifications, and credentialing. © The Author(s) 2015.

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