{"id":23006,"date":"2021-04-26T13:41:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=23006"},"modified":"2025-04-28T09:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:42:39","slug":"mission-and-aims","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/pediatric-surgery-fellowship\/mission-and-aims\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission and Aims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-23006\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-23006-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-23006-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-23006-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>The primary aim of the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program is to train a strong clinical pediatric surgeon that is capable of handling the breadth of pediatric surgical conditions. Skillsets developed include compassion, teamwork, leadership, and strong clinical abilities. The goal of the program is to produce graduates that are autonomous, enthusiastic, and dedicated to the field.<\/p>\n<p>The program will be structured to provide a nurturing environment that <strong>promotes well-being and clinical competence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The program will utilize the most <strong>current education techniques <\/strong>and <strong>leverage technology <\/strong>in feedback.<\/p>\n<p>The program will emphasize the <strong>ability to teach other learners <\/strong>including medical students, allied health students, residents, and advanced practitioners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainees<\/strong> will play a prominent role in <strong>developing the program<\/strong>, <strong>conference topics<\/strong>, as well as <strong>leadership<\/strong> of the pediatric surgical team.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary aim of the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program is to train a strong clinical pediatric surgeon that is capable of handling the breadth of pediatric surgical conditions. Skillsets developed include compassion, teamwork, leadership, and strong clinical abilities. The goal of the program is to produce graduates that are autonomous, enthusiastic, and dedicated to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":22983,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 02:37:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23006"}],"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=23006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34359,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23006\/revisions\/34359"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}