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Program Strengths

Pediatric Residency Program

Faculty-Resident Interactions

Training of residents is considered one of the most important activities by the Department of Pediatrics.
Residents receive highly individualized attention in their pediatric education.
Residents are exposed to role models who have been successful in academic pediatrics.
Each resident is assigned a Faculty Advisor matched to the resident’s interests upon arrival to the program.

Academic Hospitalist Service

Diagnostic Referral Group (DRG), led by Dr. Basil Zitelli, includes 15 gifted clinical educators devoted to teaching inpatient pediatric medicine.
The DRG service works closely with the resident teams and students on the inpatient rotations, conducting Family-Centered Rounds on all general medical services and providing outstanding bedside, clinical, and didactic teaching.
The faculty provide timely and specific feedback for improvement during each clinical rotation.

Family-Centered Rounds

Family-centered rounds (FCR), conducted at the bedside, include family members, nursing, pharmacy, medical students, residents, and attending physicians.
FCR improves communication between health care providers and families and can be a model for improving patient handovers.
FCR enhances patient and family understanding and empowers parents to ask questions and actively participate in decision making and their child’s day-to-day care.

CORE program
Community Oriented Residency Education (CORE) focuses on community health, child advocacy, and service to the underserved.

General Academic Pediatric (GAP) Teaching Faculty
The Division of GAP, led by Alejandro Hoberman, MD, plays a major role in residency education and supervision in the Primary Care Center.

Division members are involved in educating residents in continuity clinic, acute concerns clinic, and the newborn rotation.

Faculty members develop strong mentoring relationships with residents interested in clinical research and educational scholarship.

In 2009, the GAP group was honored with the Academic Pediatric Association's Teaching Award for its work in clinical education.

Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
The Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) is made up of 20 Pediatric Emergency Medicine physicians actively involved in pediatric resident education in various forums:

Teaching of direct clinical care in a high volume urban emergency department with an annual volume of 64000 patients. Residents learn the approach and initial management to a patient with acute illness often with one on one teaching from the PEM faculty.
Formal didactics on core general pediatric topics with a focus on initial assessment and management.
Independent Learning opportunities:
- Online modules on core ED topics
- Monthly EKG and radiology cases of the month designed to enhance knowledge in pediatric cardiology and radiology with an ED focus
Simulation Based Learning (see below) are facilitated by many of the faculty in the division of PEM.

Simulation Courses and Workshops
Residents experience state-of-the-art training at the Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation Education and Research (WISER) in an effort to improve education through simulation. The WISER center in Oakland and the WISER Pediatric Simulation Satellite Center at Children’s Hospital allow residents and students to gain hands-on education through simulation for a variety of clinical situations. Residents currently participate in simulation training in:

Specific Procedure Training
- Arterial Puncture
- Lumbar Puncture
- IV insertion and venipuncture
- Bladder Catheterization
- Tracheostomy Management
Procedural Sedation
Approach to the Pediatric Trauma Patient
Intern Resuscitation Course and Approach to Acutely Ill Patients
Mock Codes

Choices for Continuity Clinic
In the weekly Continuity Clinic, each resident, under the supervision of dedicated faculty preceptors, provides longitudinal care for his or her own panel of patients throughout residency. Residents can choose from a variety of Continuity Clinic experiences including: