FAQs

There are 14 residents per class.

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is a tertiary care children’s hospital with 158 beds, and the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center.  The hospital includes a 33-bed pediatric emergency room, 17-bed PICU, and a 22-bed step-down ICU unit.  Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies is located right across the street, and houses the Newborn Nursery and a 142-bed Level 4 NICU.

• Adolescent Gynecology
• Adolescent Medicine
• Cardiac Surgery
• Cardiology
• Craniomaxillofacial Surgery
• Critical Care
• Developmental Pediatrics
• Emergency Medicine
• Endocrinology and Diabetes Center
• Gastroenterology (Center for Digestive Health and Nutrition)
• General Pediatrics
• Genetics
• Hematology / Oncology (Center for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders)
• Infectious Disease
• Nephrology (Hewell Kids Kidney Center)
• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Otolaryngology
• Pediatric Surgery
• Pulmonary
• Rheumatology
• Sports Medicine

We currently use Sunrise for inpatient and Touchworks (AllScripts) for outpatient. We are implementing Epic in Spring 2021.

Our 3-year board pass rate for first-time test takers is 93% (information available on https://www.abp.org/content/exam-pass-rates ).  For the 2019-2020 year, our board pass rate was also 93%.

On average, 50% of our graduates enter general pediatrics, 20% enter academic pediatrics, and 30% enter subspecialty fellowships.

We have protected time for didactics daily. Typically, these include a combination of morning reports (resident run) and noon conference (more structured lecture by attendings). Within each block or month, we also incorporate lecture series including Pediatric Critical Care, Evidence-Based Medicine, Pathology, and Radiology. We also have Grand Rounds and M&M conferences throughout the year.

We currently have 4 pediatric fellowships at Arnold Palmer Hospital: Pediatric Critical Care, Sports Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Pediatric Gastroenterology. Residents interact with these fellows on a daily basis.

Every resident is required to participate in the longitudinal Quality Curriculum and complete a Quality Improvement (QI) project throughout their training. There are also opportunities to conduct more formal research with mentors across all specialties. Many residents have presented at local and national conferences and some have submitted manuscripts during their training.

On an inpatient rotation, your team will typically consist of an attending, a senior resident, 1-2 interns, and 2-3 medical students. You will get the opportunity to interact with other physicians and other specialist attendings one on one. As an intern, you will typically have an average patient load of 7-10 patients.

For inpatient, you will normally come in at 6am and sign-out at 5pm for the week. Outpatient is dependent on your rotation but normally is from 8am to 5pm.

You will have continuity clinic for one half-day per week on most rotations. Our continuity clinic building is a 5-min walk from the hospital.

Nights are covered by a designated night team. PICU, PSCU (our step-down unit), and Floor each have their own night teams. These teams work Sunday - Thursday, 5pm to 6am. Remaining weekend shifts are covered by residents on electives.

Residents each received 4 weeks of vacation, one of which occurs over the Christmas / New Years holiday block.

All residents are provided parking free of charge, located in the parking garage immediately next to Arnold Palmer Hospital.

Every resident is provided a food stipend that is connected to their ID badge. It works at all the cafeterias on campus, as well as the on-campus Subway, Freshen Yogurt, and Starbucks.