Three weeks of vacation and one week for a scholarly project are provided to all residents each year of residency. During the scholarly project week, each resident is free to pursue an individual educational objective.
PL-1
Interns are exposed to the full range of pediatric illness on both inpatient and outpatient services (inpatient general pediatric services, COPE continuity clinic, neonatal intensive care unit, newborn nurseries and emergency unit). Emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of patient care. PL-1s strengthen their interviewing, physical diagnosis, laboratory diagnosis, and oral and written communication skills. Focus is directed toward developing effective and empathetic relationships with the child and family, working as a member of a health care team and therapeutic management of acute illnesses. This year is structured to provide a broad foundation of knowledge and the confidence to rise to independent and supervisory positions later in residency.
PL-2
These residents will be functioning with increasing autonomy and will begin to take on a supervisory role. Focus is directed at building skills in the diagnosis and management of complex and chronic medical problems in the inpatient and outpatient settings as well as managing common pediatric complaints. Supervisory responsibility for care on the inpatient service begins with night and weekend call during specialty rotations and in the consultant role on subspecialty services. Residents gain experience in subspecialty areas, including pediatric intensive care, emergency medicine, newborn medicine, pediatric surgery, adolescent medicine, developmental pediatrics, endocrinology/metabolism, gastroenterology, cardiology, allergy/pulmonary medicine, immunology, genetics, hematology/oncology, nephrology, neurology and infectious diseases. The teaching resident rotation is focused on teaching physical diagnostic skills to third-year medical students one-on-one with their patients. The teaching resident also participates in various child advocacy programs. A one-month elective is left open to the interest of the house officer. Many residents use this time to work in other cities or countries. Alternatively, the resident may choose to undertake a scholarly project with a faculty member at SLCH. COPE continuity clinic continues as one half-day each week with one two-week rotation.
PL-3
Emphasis is placed on leadership of a health care team and autonomy as a practitioner. The PL-3 senior supervisory rotations are the inpatient units, emergency department and pediatric intensive care unit. Two to four months of subspecialty rotations include ambulatory and inpatient consultations. A one-month elective, similar to that in the PL-2 year, is provided to each resident. Diagnostic center/general pediatric consultation is a one-month rotation. The resident continues in COPE one half-day each week with one two-week rotation.
Three weeks of vacation and one week for a scholarly project are provided to all residents each year of residency. During the scholarly project week, each resident is free to pursue an individual educational objective.
PL-1
Interns are exposed to the full range of pediatric illness on both inpatient and outpatient services (inpatient general pediatric services, COPE continuity clinic, neonatal intensive care unit, newborn nurseries and emergency unit). Emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of patient care. PL-1s strengthen their interviewing, physical diagnosis, laboratory diagnosis, and oral and written communication skills. Focus is directed toward developing effective and empathetic relationships with the child and family, working as a member of a health care team and therapeutic management of acute illnesses. This year is structured to provide a broad foundation of knowledge and the confidence to rise to independent and supervisory positions later in residency.
PL-2
These residents will be functioning with increasing autonomy and will begin to take on a supervisory role. Focus is directed at building skills in the diagnosis and management of complex and chronic medical problems in the inpatient and outpatient settings as well as managing common pediatric complaints. Supervisory responsibility for care on the inpatient service begins with night and weekend call during specialty rotations and in the consultant role on subspecialty services. Residents gain experience in subspecialty areas, including pediatric intensive care, emergency medicine, newborn medicine, pediatric surgery, adolescent medicine, developmental pediatrics, endocrinology/metabolism, gastroenterology, cardiology, allergy/pulmonary medicine, immunology, genetics, hematology/oncology, nephrology, neurology and infectious diseases. The teaching resident rotation is focused on teaching physical diagnostic skills to third-year medical students one-on-one with their patients. The teaching resident also participates in various child advocacy programs. A one-month elective is left open to the interest of the house officer. Many residents use this time to work in other cities or countries. Alternatively, the resident may choose to undertake a scholarly project with a faculty member at SLCH. COPE continuity clinic continues as one half-day each week with one two-week rotation.
PL-3
Emphasis is placed on leadership of a health care team and autonomy as a practitioner. The PL-3 senior supervisory rotations are the inpatient units, emergency department and pediatric intensive care unit. Two to four months of subspecialty rotations include ambulatory and inpatient consultations. A one-month elective, similar to that in the PL-2 year, is provided to each resident. Diagnostic center/general pediatric consultation is a one-month rotation. The resident continues in COPE one half-day each week with one two-week rotation.