Educational Environment

Rotations

Rotations will be structured in 2–4-week blocks to maximize continuity, minimize transitions, and provide quality educational experiences, but also decrease the risk of burn out experienced by trainees on busy rotations. Throughout their clinical, research, and elective rotations, fellows will be supervised by individual faculty who will provide meaningful feedback after spending enough time with each fellow on that rotation. Fellows will also participate in regular weekly or bi-weekly conferences, division meetings, case reviews, etc. that will facilitate meaningful mentorship relationships with their faculty.

General Schedule Structure

• 32 weeks of required rotations divided over two years
• 32 weeks of individualized curriculum over two years (16 weeks/year)
  • Select elective rotations based on interests and future plans in PHM
  • Create a personalized schedule for your unique fellowship experience
• 32 weeks dedicated to research/quality improvement
• 4 weeks of vacation and 7 personal days each year
  • May be taken in 1-2 weeks increments
  • May not be during required/core rotations

Example Block Schedule

Conferences/Didactics

PHM fellows will participate in monthly didactics together with all other pediatric subspecialty fellows. These didactics will be lead by senior faculty with a wide range of topics covered which will be essential to their scholarly work. These sessions will also help PHM fellows build a community with larger fellowship programs.

Division-specific didactics will occur monthly at PHM division meetings and will focus specifically on hospital medicine topics.

Monthly Division Didactics

• Case Discussions to review interesting cases
• PHM Board Review
• Journal Club
• Review of new evidence-based guidelines

Board Review

• General Pediatrics Certifying Exam
  • Limited on-service time prior to exam to give ample study time
  • Ability to join with other pediatric fellows for board review
• Pediatric Hospital Medicine
  • Monthly board review sessions with PHM faculty
  • Annual in-training exam to monitor progress

Teaching Opportunities

PHM fellows will have the opportunity to teach residents and medical students. On wards, much of the teaching will be on rounds and at the bedside. However, formal teaching opportunities include afternoon lectures on wards as well as at residency-wide Friday didactics.

Fellows with a special interest in medical student education will also have the opportunity to join faculty on teaching modules within general pediatrics curriculum as well as within problem-based learning activities.

Fellows will also be given the opportunity to present at Grand Rounds toward the end of their fellowship to present research/quality improvement findings.