{"id":9356,"date":"2025-06-04T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/pediatrics\/?page_id=9356"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:22:11","slug":"program-highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/pediatrics\/education\/fellowships\/hospital-medicine\/program-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What makes our program unique:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Experience Caring for High Acuity and Subspecialty Patients <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pediatric wards teams encompass patients on acute units as well as in the Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit (IMC), a step-down unit from the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and helps provide care to high-acuity 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