Pediatric Training
A pediatric residency must provide a broad educational experience to prepare a resident to function as a primary care specialist capable of providing comprehensive patient care.
Graduating residents will be able to manage pediatric patients in:
- General ambulatory office-based pediatrics (including well-child care, child behavior, psychosocial concerns and development) from birth through adolescence.
- Emergency room stabilization and consultation.
- Care of the normal newborn and stable preterm infant.
- Resuscitation and stabilization of critically ill newborns and older children.
- General inpatient pediatrics.
- Coordination and overall general care of subspecialty and complex inpatients.
- Consultation of pediatric surgical patients.
In addition, the resident will be an advocate for children and will be prepared for a lifetime of learning based on scientific evidence in medical literature.
Direct teaching of residents occurs constantly at the bedside and in the clinics. This is supplemented with scheduled didactic teaching conferences.
In addition to the one-on-one teaching that occurs in all settings, residents' education is rounded out by more formal teaching. Formal attending rounds are conducted daily by faculty. Daily noon conferences cover a core curriculum in pediatrics, beginning with the most common emergencies. Grand rounds include topics of interest for general pediatrics.
Other conferences and workshops complement the teaching program, including journal club, medicolegal seminars, exposure to office management issues, an IV placement training workshop, mock codes, an intubation workshop, a resident as teachers curriculum, an international health curriculum, and a Medical Home curriculum.
We also encourage interested house staff to utilize elective time to pursue opportunities in research, advocacy, and international health.
Examples of resident's research in recent years include: NSAID toxicity in JRA, vWF disorders, obesity and cystic fibrosis, and the use of echocardiography in primary pulmonary hypertension in the neonate. Residents are encouraged to present their work at national meetings, where departmental funding covers costs.
Our residents are also expected to teach themselves. Interns and senior residents play a major role in the teaching of junior medical students during their pediatric clerkships.
Our program provides a great balance of didactic and informal teaching. Our residents learn by caring for their patients in a supportive and instructive environment.