The program understands the importance of professional development. We help our residents develop a professional and personal identity. We hope all of our residents become leaders in their chosen fields. To this end, we have a structured curriculum to help develop residents as researchers, teachers and leaders.
Highlights
- Orientation: cultural sensitivity, community engagement, PALS, NRP
- Outpatient Case Conference on non-acute care rotations
- PL-1 summer orientation series for further development of essential skills as a physician
- PL-1 spring PICU orientation series in the spring prior to starting PICU rotations in PL-2 year
- Access to PREP and MedStudy curriculum
- NEJM Knowledge + and NEJM 360 which are additional resources for board prep and general pediatric knowledge
- Board review weekly
- Monthly journal club
- Participation in quality and safety root cause analyses
- Outpatient case conference for residents on non-acute care rotations
- Protected educational time
- Three year rotating didactic curriculum presented on Friday mornings
- Evidence based medicine conferences weekly
- Faculty mentor meetings twice a year to review individualized learning plans
- Program director meetings twice a year
- Two full-day retreats for each class
- Well-Being committee activities to enhance connectedness and resiliency
- Four professionalism sessions per year
- Career development series
- Financial literacy education
- Behavioral health emergency training
- Financial support for each resident to attend a conference (more if presenting)
- Four sessions on “Residents as Teachers”