Pediatric Hospital Medicine

As a fellow in the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Program you will have the opportunity to gain extensive clinical experience at both Children’s Wisconsin Main Campus and Fox Valley. Patient care activities include extensive inpatient service experience, including rotations in hospital medicine, newborn nursery, pediatric critical care, procedural sedation, special needs/complex care, and palliative medicine. Elective options include transport medicine, emergency medicine, child advocacy and protection, infectious disease, behavioral health, and more!

After successful recruitment, rising fellows will be contacted to identify an area of interest, such as clinical research, quality improvement/safety, or educational scholarship. We will work with you to connect you with a faculty mentor/coach to help you select a project and support you throughout your fellowship so you can meet the ACGME requirements for scholarly productivity.  The Joint Fellowship Curriculum and Hospital Medicine Fellows’ Curriculum will help fellows develop skills in study design and research methodology, grant writing, statistical analysis, and other fundamentals.

The curriculum includes:

• Inpatient hospital medicine rotations at Children’s Wisconsin. Fellows will rotate on of our academic hospitalist inpatient services and gain experience managing common pediatric conditions, rare diseases, and medically complex children. The inpatient experience will include time working on the resident service, the APP team, and night/call shifts. Triage, complex care coordination, and surgical co-management will be emphasized throughout the rotations. Bedside and didactic teaching and supervision of medical students, residents, APPs, NP students, and PA students will occur during these rotations.
• Community hospital medicine rotations. Fellows will rotate at Children’s Wisconsin Fox Valley, gaining experience with providing care outside of an academic center. Emphasis will be placed on evidence-based community practice, triage and level-of-care decisions, and delivery experience.
• Required key clinical rotations. Fellows will rotate though other clinical services in the Department of Pediatrics to gain essential experiences and skill that are central to a career in hospital medicine. Rotations will include newborn nursery, special needs/complex care, sedation, palliative care, PICU, and others.
• Elective rotations. Fellows will have the opportunity to select clinical and non-clinical electives that align with their individual interests and career goals.
• Longitudinal experiences. Throughout fellowship, teaching and medical education, leadership/administration, quality-improvement, co-management, and other areas will be built upon as part of rotations and clinical experiences.
• Research and scholarly activities. Fellows will have significant time dedicated to a research/scholarly project, with the expectation of a scholarly product by the end of fellowship. We will work with you to identify a project and mentorship early in fellowship and partner with you to meet this goal.
• PHM fellows’ conference series. A fellows-centered didactic curriculum will complement the clinical and other educational experiences to ensure a well-rounded educational experience.

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• While on a hospital medicine team, you will be responsible for a team of patients, leading rounds that includes medical students, residents, APPs and/or APP students, while under the supervision (direct and indirect) of a PHM faculty member.
• Assignments to the various coverage roles will include pager triage, staffing patients during times of daily peak volume, and coordinating care during handoffs.
• During selected rotations, call will include some overnight hospitalist inpatient shifts or night call in the PICU.
• Clinical experiences in other required rotations will find you rounding with board certified/eligible specialists and becoming a part of their team for 2-4 weeks.
• You will follow several patients with special needs longitudinally. You will be notified when they are in clinic and admitted. When possible, fellows may have the opportunity to make house calls with faculty/staff.
• Research blocks will allow you to focus on your research topic either at the hospital or off site.Regularly scheduled meetings with your mentorship team will ensure that you stay on target.

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• Salary is determined by the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals (MCWAH).
• Each fellow receives $1,500/year to support academic purchases/travel from MCWAH in addition to being eligible for departmental support if presenting at national meetings.
• Additional Section support may be available for other meetings/conferences on a case-by-case basis.
• A scholarly productivity incentive will provide you with up to $15,000 of loan repayment based on compliance with regulatory and educational requirements and presentation and publication of a first author, original science paper.

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