{"id":22442,"date":"2021-04-21T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=22442"},"modified":"2021-08-05T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T14:45:38","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/pediatric-hematology-and-oncology-fellowship\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The field of pediatric hematology\/oncology encompasses a broad array of disorders of infants, children, and adolescents with cancer and non-malignant disorders of the blood and blood-forming tissues. The intent of the Pediatric Hematology\/Oncology Fellowship Program is to train pediatricians in the prevention, diagnosis and management of disease so as to provide comprehensive, compassionate care for children and adolescents. Our training programs share a common goal to provide future academic pediatricians with a foundation to become competent clinicians, researchers, and educators. To achieve this, the Pediatric Hematology\/Oncology Fellowship Training Program at Connecticut Children\u2019s has the following objectives:<\/p>\n

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  • To provide the clinical experiences and educational opportunities necessary to build a solid foundation of medical knowledge, critical thinking abilities, literature review, diagnostic acumen and technical skills.<\/li>\n
  • To provide academic pediatricians the critical thinking skills, intellectual environment, and research training and experience to develop careers as physician-scientists.<\/li>\n
  • To train well-rounded, empathetic clinicians to develop skills in communication and counseling with patients and families.<\/li>\n
  • To impart to our fellows the skills necessary to become lifelong learners and teachers, and develop leadership skills and work effectively with team members.<\/li>\n
  • To impart to our fellows a sense of responsibility to act as advocates for the health of children and families within our society.<\/li>\n
  • To expose our fellows to the concept of multi-institutional collaborative research as exemplified by the pediatric oncology cooperative groups and encourage them to become active members of the profession\u2019s national societies.<\/li>\n
  • To prepare future pediatric hematologists\/oncologists for the changes taking place within our health care system including managed care, limitations on resource utilization, and the shift of medical care to ambulatory settings.<\/li>\n
  • To create pediatric hematologists\/oncologists able to practice the culturally competent medical care necessary in our increasingly diverse population.<\/li>\n
  • To teach professionalism by mentorship, validating the critical roles of personal ethics, responsibility, respect, compassion, communication, and self-awareness.<\/li>\n
  • To provide our training in an environment of respect and support, recognizing that fellowship training is a difficult and challenging time in one\u2019s life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Curriculum Strengths<\/h3>\n
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    • Continuity Clinic to provide longitudinal exposure to children with blood disorders and cancer<\/li>\n
    • Multidisciplinary Care to provide compassionate care, innovative treatment options and novel clinical therapies.<\/li>\n
    • Diverse patient population to provide excellent clinical experience with exposure to cutting-edge clinical trials.<\/li>\n
    • Specialized programs: Sarcoma Program, Hematologic Malignancy Program, Hemostasis and Thrombosis, Sickle Cell Disease, Neuro-Oncology Program, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program, Advanced Therapeutic Program, Palliative Care Program (Sunflower Kids), REACH for the STARS Survivorship Program, Supportive Care Program, Cardio-Oncology Program, and Onco-Fertility Program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The field of pediatric hematology\/oncology encompasses a broad array of disorders of infants, children, and adolescents with cancer and non-malignant disorders of the blood and blood-forming tissues. The intent of the Pediatric Hematology\/Oncology Fellowship Program is to train pediatricians in the prevention, diagnosis and management of disease so as to provide comprehensive, compassionate care for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":22401,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 06:15:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24294,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22442\/revisions\/24294"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}