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Educational Curriculum

Morning Report
Senior or Intern Morning Report is held three times a week. This interactive and educationally rigorous session consists of a patient case is presented by a resident team on an inpatient rotation. The goals are to develop clinical reasoning skills and to practice and refine the art of oral presentation and synthesis of complex clinical information. The discussions highlight an interesting diagnosis or management dilemma and incorporate current evidence and expert opinion from participating faculty members.

To Err is Human: Monthly group discussion and reflection sessions during which residents discuss medical errors or problems in communication that may impact patient safety.

Evidence Based Medicine Morning Report: Bi-weekly session led by the PL-3 Teaching Resident. Residents formulate a clinical question from actual cases discussed at morning report, search the literature for evidence, and then lead a discussion regarding their literature search, the evidence, and applicability to our clinical practice.

Morning report Morning report

Grand Rounds
Grand Rounds are held every Thursday morning. These departmentwide conferences are sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics and consist of topics that include a combination of faculty and visiting speakers providing expert presentations of pediatric topics as well as the latest developments and advancement in pediatric research.

Chairman's Rounds
Every Friday morning, one senior resident presents a challenging pediatric case. Residents develop a differential, initial workup, and management. The conference is attended by at representatives from multiple subspecialty divisions and is moderated by the Chairman of Pediatrics. This has become one of the most popular conferences as it allows residents to hear multiple specialty perspectives on difficult cases.

Noon Conferences
These conferences are held three days a week and consist of a variety of topics in the core pediatric curriculum in the format of both didactic lectures and interactive case-based discussions. Residents as Teachers skills, biomedical ethics, EBM, Morbidity and Mortality conferences are also held during these sessions.

Board Review
Sessions attended by senior residents and led by the teaching resident, which reviews board-style questions in an interactive format. The topics are chosen based on the content specifications of the American Board of Pediatrics Certifying Exam.

Intern Boot Camp
This is a weekly intern-only session, focusing on the specific educational needs of the interns. Interns generate the topics for their own learning. Sessions are facilitated by interns, senior residents, fellows, and faculty.

Specialty Conferences
Each rotation, including NICU, PICU, Adolescent Medicine, and the subspecialty rotations, includes conferences specific to resident learning.

Independent Learning
Monthly EKG and Radiology cases of the month are available for independent learning. Detailed answers, explanations, and teaching points are outlined and available on the resident website.

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Quality Improvement Curriculum
Residents learn the nuts and bolts of QI and get hands-on experience using the tools of QI to scientifically and systematically effect change, reduce medical errors, and improve patient care. The curriculum consists of interactive QI learning sessions during noon conference time, and hands-on experience during which residents work closely with a faculty mentor experienced in QI to devise and complete their own individual QI project.

Hands-on Training and Workshops
We offer a variety of workshops during residency, including: 

  • Leadership Workshop: Interactive workshop geared toward the transition form intern to senior resident
  • Communication Course: Interactive, practical improvement of communication skills during challenging interactions using simulated patients and parents in role-play scenarios
  • Procedure Course for Interns: Simulation-based training in procedural skills such as lumbar puncture, IV insertion, bladder catheterization, tracheostomy management, arterial puncture
  • Sedation Workshop: Simulation-based training in procedural sedation
  • Trauma Course: Combination of independent online learning as well as high-fidelity, simulation case-based approach to management of a pediatric trauma patient
  • Career Sessions: Invited speakers facilitate discussions regarding career choices in pediatrics
  • Intern Resuscitation Course: Multimedia and simulation-based skill stations and case-based training for intern on being first provider to an acutely ill patient in the wards
  • Death and Dying Workshop: Speakers, interactive discussion, and case-based skill training in conveying news of the death of a patient, as well as interactions and communication with the family
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September 1, 2011
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Last Update
September 1, 2011
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