Schedule
A typical work day for residents integrates patient care with formal and informal teaching. The following outlines a day for the residents on the inpatient service.
7:00 AM-8:00 AM Daily Work Rounds on the inpatient service are supervised by the senior residents. The focus of discussion is patient progress and management plans. Members of the team include interns and medical students.
8: 00 AM-9:00 AM Daily intake rounds are attended by the senior residents, the residency director, associate program director and chief residents. New admissions and complicated cases are discussed with regard to diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
9:00 AM-10:00 AM Family Centered Rounds are conducted on all General Pediatric Service patients. The focus of these rounds are to engage families, teach communication skills and discuss management. Senior residents are expected to take the lead role in these rounds.
1:00 PM-5:00 PM Continuity sessions. Once a week the residents are general pediatricians for their patients from the community, for former inpatients, and for newborn infants. For the interns, the practice afternoon clinic begins with a half-hour didactic conference followed by a three-hour patient care session.
Attending Rounds: Take place 3 times a week as arranged between the Floor Team and their General Pediatric Attending
2:00 PM-2:30 PM Radiology rounds. This is a daily conference for residents, interns, and students assigned to the ward to discuss the radiologic studies on their patients with pediatric radiologists.
4:30 PM Sign out rounds.
Weekly conferences are conducted by the faculty and chief residents. The following is a listing of the major weekly conferences you will attend during your residency training.
Chief of Service Rounds: Case-based conferences using a format of presentation of a case and discussion with active participation of the housestaff. Faculty participants include different subspecialists, the ward attendings, and faculty from the Division of Pediatric Education. The senior residents each present one formal Chief of Service Round during the year.
Grand Rounds: The pediatric faculty and guest lecturers speak on a variety of topics. State-of-the-art lectures are presented by local, national, and international authorities.
Intern Conference: Weekly conference specifically for interns. The format ranges widely from history and physical findings, generation of a differential diagnosis to a discussion of a specific topic. Faculty sponsors include the faculty from the Division of Education and the chairman.
Resident Conference: Didactic series of lectures on a wide variety of topics presented by many different members of the Department of Pediatrics.
Journal Club: Review of recent articles of importance in pediatrics with particular attention to methodological and statistical analysis. Specifically oriented to the junior and senior residents, though all housestaff are invited to attend.
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