The Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship program offers a balanced curriculum that complies with ACGME requirements. One third of the curriculum is devoted to core clinical rotations, a third to individualized curriculum and a third is protected time for designing, conducting and disseminating scholarly activity.
Schedule
Didactics and Conferences
Our fellows participate in a curriculum that offers educational sessions on topics spanning the vast learning components of PHM (with attention to preparing for PHM boards)as well as sessions on basic research methodology and statistics as well as ethics and professional development. Our fellows also participate in journal clubs, morbidity and mortality conferences and departmental grand rounds.
Scholarly Opportunities
Our PHM section has a diverse array of projects underway in many areas of scholarship. Beyond the section of PHM, the department of pediatrics has many other areas of scholarly activity that may interest the PHM fellow. A strength of our department is our focus on research on social drivers of health and health inequities amongst racial and ethnic minorities.
Current and recent scholarship within the PHM section include the following:
- Firearm Safety
- Food Insecurity
- Educational Curriculum
- Hypothermia in Young Infants
- Biomedical Informatics
- LGBTQI Health
- Medical Stabilization of Eating Disorders
- NOWS
- Co-management of children with medical complexity undergoing spinal surgery
- Working with Child Life to reduce the need for sedation for MRIs