Program Mission
To develop compassionate pediatric hospitalists with a broad range of clinical skills and knowledge who are prepared to serve any community with excellence in clinical care, academics, and professionalism.
Program Aims
Each fellow will be expected to show progression towards competence in the following areas:
- Patient care
- Medical knowledge
- Systems-based practice
- Practice-based learning and improvement
- Professionalism
- Interpersonal and communication skills.
Our fellows will learn to provide the highest possible evidence-based care to each patient through direct clinical experience on rotations, weekly didactic lectures, and monthly meetings including journal club.
Our fellows will have the opportunity to develop leadership skills through participation in hospital committees, leadership of learning teams, and leadership of scholarly/QI projects. We believe that immersion in these activities will allow fellows to develop the skills they will need to serve as leaders of health systems in the future. Fellows will develop excellence in medical education by preparing lectures for residents and attendings, including at least one grand rounds during fellowship. They will have supervisory roles during medical education rotations, allowing them to develop teaching skills during family-centered rounds. They will lead discussions at journal club and patient care conferences, and there will be support to assist fellows in developing new curriculum for residents and medical students, as well as opportunities to work with multiple medical schools to educate their students.
We believe strongly in preparing well-rounded fellows who will be ready for any academic or community hospitalist position. To meet this goal, fellows will strengthen their clinical skills in neonatal resuscitation, sedation, surgical procedures, and management of critically ill patients. Through the interdisciplinary rotation, fellows will build the ability to work in resource- or staff-limited areas by gaining skills such as IV placement, accessing ports, and drawing labs, as well as use of medical equipment like feeding tubes and pumps, wound care, and the use of respiratory equipment. Our fellows will pursue academic excellence via the pediatric fellow research curriculum and development of a strong SOC. Fellows will also be expected to develop and participate in one QI project AND one scholarly product during fellowship.
Our final aim is to be responsible to the community that these future hospitalists will serve by preparing each fellow to pass the PHM boards on their first attempt after graduation. Fellows will work with faculty to develop and modify the hospital medicine lecture series, providing a hands-on experience in both learning and teaching.