The NUSOM-UMC Pediatric Fellowships Program is a 2-year program designed to provide medical doctors (after the completion of a post-graduate residency program officially recognized in the Republic of Kazakhstan) with subspecialist training in the field of pediatric disciplines. The completion of the pediatric clinical fellowship will allow doctors to work in a highly specialized pediatric hospital setting and referral centers, in addition to providing them with the appropriate background for a successful academic career.

The NUSOM-UMC Pediatric Fellowships Program will educate and train doctors in one of the following pediatric subspecialties:

• Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology
• Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
• Pediatric Neurology
• Pediatric Nephrology and Dialysis
• Pediatric Rheumatology
• Pediatric Hematology
• Pediatric Solid Oncology
• Pediatric Cardiology

This Program will be offered to:

1. Doctors specialized in General Pediatrics (namely, those who completed a residency program in General Pediatrics at NUSOM or in another residency program accredited by the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan): these candidates can apply for any of these pediatric subspecialties;
2. Doctors who completed a residency program in one of the specialties (adult/children) indicated by the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan, but these applicants can only apply for the pediatric subspecialty (among those listed above) that is consistent with their residency training (e.g. hematology/oncology children/adults

• pediatric hematology or pediatric solid oncology; endocrinology children/adults
• pediatric endocrinology and diabetology; gastroenterology children/adults
• pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology, allergy and immunology children/adults
• pediatric allergy and immunology; neurology children/adults
• pediatric neurology; nephrology children/adults
• pediatric nephrology and dialysis; rheumatology children/adults
• pediatric rheumatology; cardiology children/adults
• pediatric cardiology.