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Academic Curriculum

Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship

Fellow specific conferences

 

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.

View other GME or hospital conferences.

 

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

Our Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship leadership team

Michael G. Platt, MD
Program Director
(816) 302-3268
mplatt@cmh.edu

Toni Zaner, BA
Program Coordinator
tmzaner@cmh.edu