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Stephen Cico, MD, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Orlando, FL

StephenCicoMDMEd

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Orlando, FL

Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Professor of Emergency Medicine & Professor of Pediatrics, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida

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Summary

  • Dr. Stephen Cico has been recruited to lead the UCF-HCA Healthcare GME Consortium as the ACGME Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Cico is a recognized leader in medical education and has both published widely and presented nationally and internationally on medical education topics, including effective didactic and clinical teaching strategies, maintaining knowledge and procedural competency, and mentoring. Dr. Cico is the pediatric section editor of a textbook, Atlas of Clinical Emergency Medicine, as well as a contributor to several other emergency medicine textbooks. He is a Founding Decision Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine Education & Training, the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s education journal.

    Prior to being recruited to UCF, Dr. Cico was a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. There he was an Assistant Dean for GME, overseeing their statewide GME expansion residency programs and faculty development, as well as the Founding Fellowship Director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program, the first PEM training program in Indiana.

    Dr. Cico completed his undergraduate degree in Honors Biology at Wright State University and then obtained his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He did a dual residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and then completed his fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He has a Master’s in Medical Education (M.Ed.) from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and College of Education.

    He is board certified in pediatric emergency medicine and general pediatrics through the American Board of Pediatrics. @PedsEM

Education & Training

  • University of Cincinnati Colleges of Education and Medicine
    University of Cincinnati Colleges of Education and MedicineMEd, Medical Education, Curriculum Development and Evaluation, 2008 - 2012
  • UPMC Medical Education
    UPMC Medical EducationFellowship, Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Pediatrics), 2001 - 2004
  • Rush University Medical Center
    Rush University Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, 1997 - 2001
  • University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
    University of Cincinnati College of MedicineClass of 1997
  • Wright State University
    Wright State UniversityUniversity Honors BS, Biological Sciences, Summa Cum Laude, 1989 - 1993

Certifications & Licensure

  • IN State Medical License
    IN State Medical License 2015 - 2025
  • IA State Medical License
    IA State Medical License 2014 - 2017
  • MT State Medical License
    MT State Medical License 2015 - 2016
  • SD State Medical License
    SD State Medical License Active through 2016
  • ND State Medical License
    ND State Medical License 2014 - 2015
  • MN State Medical License
    MN State Medical License 2014 - 2015
  • IL State Medical License
    IL State Medical License 1997 - 2014
  • American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
  • American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Emergency Medicine
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Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Top 50 Educator IUSM Department of Pediatrics, 2018-2019
  • Best in Class Poster AAMC GFA National Conference, 2018
  • Fellow - FACEP American College of Emergency Medicine, 2017
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Lectures

  • Not Another Boring Lecture! 
    Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX - 5/14/2014

Press Mentions

  • Training Tomorrow’s Health Leaders
    Training Tomorrow’s Health LeadersMarch 3rd, 2023
  • UCF-HCA Add New Residency, Fellowship — Firsts in Florida
    UCF-HCA Add New Residency, Fellowship — Firsts in FloridaFebruary 15th, 2024

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