Program Overview

Pediatrics Residency Program

The Pediatrics Residency Program is designed to provide residents with a comprehensive education in pediatric medicine. The program includes a variety of rotations, topics, and resources to help residents develop their skills and knowledge.

Rotations

The program offers the following rotations:

• Adolescent Medicine
• Cardiology
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Clinician Educator/Ward Star Elective
• Continuity Clinic/Primary Care
• DBP
• Emergency Medicine
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• Genetics
• Health Equity and Advocacy
• Heme Onc
• Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
• Hospital Medicine/Wards
• Infectious Disease
• Mental & Behavioral Health
• Nephrology
• Newborn Nursery
• NICU
• Neurology
• PICU Prep
• PICU
• Pulmonology
• Sports Medicine
• Surgery

Topics

The program covers a range of topics, including:

• Outpatient
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Breastfeeding/Nutrition
  • Depression/Anxiety
  • Discipline/Behavior
  • Elimination Disorders
  • Rashes
• Inpatient
  • Abdominal Pain/Vomiting
  • Asthma
  • Bronchiolitis
  • BRUE
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Disordered Eating
  • Failure to Thrive
  • Febrile Infant
  • Headache
  • Kawasaki Disease
  • Leukemia, Lymphoma
  • Pain
  • Pneumonia
  • Seizure
  • Sickle Cell Disease
  • Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
  • Urinary Tract Infection
• Critical Care
  • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
  • Codes
  • Diabetic Ketoacidosis
  • Electrolytes
  • Respiratory Distress
  • Sedation
  • Shock
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Vents

Newborn Nursery

The Newborn Nursery rotation includes the following goals and objectives:

• Demonstrate knowledge of normal newborn exam findings, and be able to recognize common variants from medical problems, including, but not limited to: jitteriness, sleep patterns, feeding patterns, signs/symptoms of drug withdrawal, jaundice, GI problems (stooling/feeding difficulties), heart murmurs, sacral/spinal anomalies, hip laxity, hypoglycemia, respiratory distress, etc.
• Become proficient in the screening, detection and work-up or clinically important anomalies/conditions (such as DDH, cataract, cardiovascular disease, hyperbilirubinemia, infants of diabetic mothers, etc.)

Resources

The program provides access to a variety of resources, including:

• General Learning
  • CHOP Clinical Pathways
  • Clinician Educator Curriculum
  • The Cribsiders
  • Ethics
  • IHI Open School
  • Peds RAP
  • Procedure Videos
  • Question of the Week
• Critical Care
  • Introduction to Codes, Part 1
  • Introduction to Codes, Part 2
  • OPENPediatrics
• Subspecialty
  • CHOP Open Access Medical Education
  • Dermatology
  • Emergency Medicine - POCUS
  • Hospital Medicine Podcast
  • MCPAP - Psychiatry
  • Rheumatology
• Primary Care
  • Development
  • HealthyChildren.org
  • Johns Hopkins Curriculum
  • Mt Sinai Keystones Curriculum
  • Parenting Books

Logistics

The program includes the following logistical components:

• Residency Basics
• Electives
• ITE Follow-Up
• MedEd
• Mentorship, Meetings & ILPs
• Quality Improvement
• Research
• Tech Support
• Wellness
• Job Search Support
• Fellowship Support
• Phone Numbers

Chief Corner

The Chief Corner section includes information on:

• Chief Corner
• Scheduling