Training Schedule
Pediatric training is a progressive experience offering more independence, teaching opportunities, and supervisory roles as the resident proceeds through the program.
Emphasis during the first year is on direct patient care and acquisition of the basic knowledge, technical skills, and competencies essential for the care of newborns, infants, children and adolescents, both sick and well. The first-year resident is the primary physician on all of the inpatient units and works closely with the third-year medical students assigned to the service. First-year assignments include rotations on the general inpatient pediatric services, the NICU, inpatient hematology-oncology, the normal newborn service, behavioral/ developmental pediatrics, the pediatric Emergency Department, and the Pediatric Community Health Sequence.
During the second year, residents function with increasing autonomy and begin to take on a supervisory role. Second-year residents are senior residents in the NICU and on the inpatient hematology-oncology service, where they manage teams of interns and students in the care of ill inpatients under the guidance of fellows and attending physicians. In addition, second-year residents are the admitting house physicians during their “night team” rotation, with back up from in house third year residents and attending hospitalists. Second year residents also rotate through the PICU and work more independently in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Second-year residents do an adolescent medicine rotation and select from a large number of electives where the focus is on the ambulatory management of pediatric problems in subspecialty and other settings.
The third year is structured to permit the resident to function primarily in a supervisory capacity and to further pursue personal career goals. The third year typically has several rotations on the general inpatient wards as the supervising senior resident in charge of the service. Third year residents solidify their training in the NICU and PICU and in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Flexibility in scheduling remaining electives and opportunities for individualized and away electives help round out the third-year experience and allow residents to tailor their training to their personal career
interests. The third-year resident is also regarded as central to our teaching program, sharing responsibility for teaching rounds and providing consultation to junior residents and medical students.
Sample Schedule
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Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
June |
Vac |
HO-1 |
ER |
Behav |
Inpt Peds |
Nwbn |
NICU |
Inpt Peds |
Inpt Heme-Onc |
PCH |
Inpt Peds |
ER |
NICU |
Inpt Peds |
4 wks |
HO-2 |
Elect |
PCH |
ER |
Elect |
Adol |
Elect |
ER |
Elect |
NICU |
Night Team/ VAC |
PICU |
Inpt peds |
4 wks |
HO-3 |
Inpt Peds |
Elect |
Elect |
Elect |
PICU |
Inpt Peds |
Elect |
Night Team/ Day Senior |
Inpt Peds |
Peds Surg |
ER |
NICU |
4 wks |
Continuity Clinic
| HO-1 | 1 half day/wk |
| HO-2 | 1-2 half days/wk |
| HO-3 | 1-2 half days/wk |
