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Curriculum Rotations & Goals

Pediatric Fellowship Rotations
1st year	2nd year
PEM 7 months w/3 weeks vacation	PEM 7 months w/3 weeks vacation
Pediatric Critical Care 1 month	Pediatric Critical Care 1 month
Pediatric Anesthesia 1/2 month	Pediatric Ambulatory/Sub-speciality Clinic 1 month
Pediatric Inpatient Wards 1 month	Research 1 month
Neonatology 1 month	Elective 2 months
Child Sexual Abuse Cliinic 1/2 month
Research 1 month

 

 

Curriculum Goals

First Year Goals:

Clinical:

To become clinically proficient at the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and disposition of pediatric patients with emergent and urgent complaints

Exposure to a broad range of undifferentiated chief complaints in a diverse pediatric population

Gain competency in pediatric emergency skills

Teaching:

To be formally introduced to lecture development, presentation and teaching skills including:

Didactic lessons

Lecture in small and large group settings

Bedside teaching while mentoring students and residents

Administrative:

To become aware of issues involved in running a children’s emergency department and in pediatric health care issues

Shadow a medical director

Be involved in administrative, legislative, and/or EMS-C issues

Be involved in quality assurance issues for the hospital

Be a guest member of committees in the hospital setting regarding children (i.e. code committee, sedation committee, etc)

Research:
Introduction to research and development of a research project including:

Didactic Sessions

Assignment of a research mentor

Review of literature, journals

Second Year Goals

Clinical:

To gain autonomy in decision making and running the pediatric emergency department

To help develop clinical guidelines for pediatric emergency medicine patients

To become proficient and to teach pediatric emergency medicine procedures and skills

Teaching:

To teach/lecture at a regional or national meeting

To teach/lecture to bodies outside of the subspecialty

To help refine and develop curriculum for the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship

To help with the medical student rotations in the pediatric emergency department

Administrative:

To refine an administrative project

To manage and run the PEM morbidity and mortality conference for the department

To be involved in QA/QI projects within the department

Research:

To continue didactic sessions in research and literature review

Finish research project and complete presentation and publication submission