Academic Curriculum

Fellow specific conferences

Common Curriculum Didactics

• Monthly meeting of fellows from all sub-specialties.

• Hospital-wide program to address topics common to all ACGME-approved fellowship programs.

• Conferences focus on leadership development within the context of the health care system.
  
  

Grant Writing Curriculum

• A longitudinal course during first year.

• Fellows will learn how to write a competitive grant application. Fellows will be paired with a mentor to help guide the creation of their first grant application. Once the fellow has completed the course, he or she is eligible to apply for a CMH Clinical Fellowship Research Award.
  
  

Statistics Course

• Monthly biostatistics training during Year 1 of fellowship with introduction into various analysis techniques.

• Fellows will utilize actual data sets to practice identifying appropriate statistical methods and performing them.
  
  

Problem Solving for Fellows (Continuous Quality and Practice Improvement)

• A participative and project-oriented learning experience that is designed to assist the fellow in continuously improving his or her practice.

• All fellows complete Problem Solving Basics in Year 1 or 2, and fellows interested in QI as a scholarly focus complete additional training with structured monthly mentoring sessions thereafter.
  
  

Boot Camp

• Multiple half-day sessions early in the first year practicing simulated patient scenarios with the emergency medicine and critical care staff.

• Great opportunity to learn and practice communication and critical thinking skills as a team leader in simulated traumas and codes in a safe and controlled environment.

• Also an opportunity to practice intubation skills (direct laryngoscopy, video assisted laryngoscopy) and invasive procedures on mannequins.

FEAST (Fellow Education and Advanced Seminar Training)

• Series created with extensive fellow input.
• Educational sessions held for PHM fellows only and occur twice monthly after standing check-ins with PHM Fellowship leadership.
• Sessions are discussion-based and focused on career development for academic pediatric hospitalists.

PHM Division lectures and conferences

Teach the Teachers Series

• Conference series led by the Division’s Core Attending Group of educators.

• Topics include learning styles, feedback and evaluation, curriculum development, writing meaningful goals & objectives, the problem learner, use of technology in education, clinical reasoning, teaching in a large group setting, and microskills.
  
  

Professional Development Series

• Series created in direct response to fellow feedback.

• Lectures target topics that are key to being a successful academic pediatric hospitalist and are not covered elsewhere in the curriculum.

• Topics include professionalism, ethics, autonomy and supervision, mentorship and sponsorship, billing and coding, human factors, and board preparation.

Hospital-wide lectures and conferences

Grand Rounds

• Local and national speakers present pertinent pediatrics topics weekly.
  
  

Morbidity and Mortality Conference

• Monthly conference structured to define ways to improve quality of care through the analysis of recent cases.
  
  

Professor Rounds

• Case-based presentations with an educational didactic component for residents, fellows, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and faculty prepared and presented by a senior resident each week.
  
  

Academic Scholarship Conference

• A bi-monthly conference covering topics such as quality improvement, advocacy, research and medical education.

• Presented by CMH faculty as well as guest speakers and visiting professors.
  
  

Morning Report

• Led by the Chief Residents

• General inpatient teaching teams meet on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to review interesting cases and provide clinical pearls.
  
  

Annual National Conferences

• AAP SOHM Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellows conference

• APA Academic General Pediatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellows conference

• Pediatric Academic Societies conference

• Pediatric Hospital Medicine conference