Residency Program | Conferences

All Resident Core Curriculum Lecture Series -- Thursdays and Fridays , 12-12:45 p.m., lunch
Discussion led by a staff member. Topics include oral rehydration therapy, diabetes management, death and dying issues, enuresis, neonatal screening, sexual and physical abuse, and a continuing series of seminars on child development and adolescent issues. These are scheduled in a three-year core curriculum timetable.

Critical Appraisal of Practice Strategies (CAPS) -- Bimonthly, Wednesday, 12-1 p.m., lunch
CAPS, or Critical Appraisal of Practice Strategies, is the evidence-based medicine journal club for all residents. Statistics and validity tools are utilized to help residents conduct effective searches and thus find answers to their clinical questions

Clinical Case Conference -- Weekly, Tuesday, 12-12:45 p.m.
Opportunity for faculty and house staff to learn from recent patient problems. The chief resident draws on the audience for decisions and to identify controversy as well as consensus.

Residents' Report Daily, Monday-Thursday, 9:30-10:15 a.m.
Focuses on general, first-contact pediatrics. This daily gathering of the residents promotes leadership by house staff on the floors and builds confidence in their skills. Participants include the pediatric supervisory residents, program director, chairman and chief residents. The information generated by brainstorming supports the authority of the supervisory resident as a resource for other team members.

Chairman's Rounds Weekly, Monday, 12:15 p.m.
Rounds with the chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. An opportunity for direct interaction in small, patientoriented sessions with the pediatrician-inchief provides two-way educational opportunities. The resident benefits from the chairman's interest in melding scientific advances with clinical problems. The chairman gains firsthand knowledge of the residents.

Grand Rounds Weekly, Friday, 9:15-10:30 a.m.
Lectures are on a wide range of topics by Washington University faculty and visitors. Attended by many members of the St. Louis pediatric community, including staff pediatricians, full-time faculty, students, house staff, nurses and hospital administrators. Four named lectureships (Hartmann, Dodge, Abelson, Thurston) provide support for the most sought-after pediatric speakers in the world.

Early Bird Rounds Weekly, Friday, 8-9 a.m.
Under the direction of the medical staff's education committee, in collaboration with the hospital's Department of Physician Services, presentations are conducted on topics of particular relevance for physicians in private practice. About 50 pediatric practitioners attend these programs, which are teleconferenced to physicians in outlying areas.

Chief Resident Rounds Weekly, Monday, 12-1 p.m., lunch
Chief Resident Rounds are held every week as a lunchtime conference. First-year residents meet with the chief residents to discuss interesting patients and explore

Mock Codes on Wards -- Monthly.
Mock Codes are conducted monthly on the wards or ICUs with detailed feedback for those participating.

Many other conferences, not described above, are open to interested house staff. These conferences are devoted to neurology, pediatric research, gastroenterology, pathology, radiology, pediatric infectious disease and tissue committee.

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