

Simultaneously a two year fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care of National Board of Examinations was started in 2007 and a full-fledged 3 years training program, DM pediatric Critical Care, started in 2009 at PGIMER, Chandigarh. With the growing knowledge and skills required in practice of PIC the fellowship was extended to two years. The number of centres providing one year Fellowship training swell to 23 by 2009. The first set of 4 trainees were from the four pioneering centres. They and many other friends returned year after year on their own expenses to help us grow. Ashok Sarnaik, Mohan Mysore, and Shekhar Venkatraman, and Dr Marraro from Italy.
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We sat for full two days, year after year to plan the end-of -training examination These endeavours of developing teaching program, end of the training evaluation and certification of training were tremendously supported by our friends from USA especially Drs. Chugh, Dr Udani, Dr Ranjit, Dr Khilnani and decided to form a Pediatric Critical Care Council with the aim to develop a 1 years course under the aegis of Indian Academy of Pediatrics and Indian Society of Critical Care medicine, and accredit teachers and infrastructure for such a training. In the Year 2000, 5 of us set together, me, Dr. The teaching through short course by various Institutions created a demand for more organised formal training. Even 26/11 terrorist attack of Mumbai did not dilute the resolve to hold the Conference in Mumbai on the same dates. An important and very popular part of the Conferences has been the Workshops helping with skill development, which are often attended by delegates from neighbouring Asian countries.

Since then the conference is held every year with a galaxy of a speakers from India and abroad in the faculty discussing frontiers of the PIC. We had first National Conference of Pediatric Intensive Care in Nagpur under leadership Dr Satish Deopujari in the year 1999.
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Formation of the professional bodies gave tremendous impetus to the growth of the speciality as shown in table 4. A Pediatrics section also started within Indian Society of Critical Care medicine with Dr Pravin Khilnani as the first chair. Subsequently it became IAP Intensive Care chapter under my chairmanship in the Year 1998. A formal Pediatric Intensive Care group was formed within Indian Academy of Pediatrics in 1994 under the convener ship Dr K.
