• Inpatient Pediatrics:  1 block leading the night team.
• Q5-6:  Call for ambulatory and elective rotations
  Includes some jeopardy call (sick/transport call, beeper call from home ambulatory phone coverage.
• Emergency Room: 9-hr shifts per month
• PICU: Q4

Some Highlights from Selected Months

Night Team

During the senior night team block residents are able to independently manage patients, learning important skills of triage and admission of patients at night.  This resident also provides leadership for first year resident on the team and the PICU during a single month of nighttime ward coverage.  The night team resident manages admissions after 9 PM until 7 AM Sunday-Thursday and supervises the first year resident caring for patients in the hospital at night.

Inpatient Teaching Resident Block

The Inpatient teaching resident block is devoted to education and evidence based medicine. Time is spent working on the resident research project (and an evidence based medicine conference). The resident gets the opportunity to perfect procedural skills during the block. The inpatient teaching month senior takes call with the PICU team and works with the Chief Residents to enhance medical student and resident teaching on the inpatient services.

Nursery

This rotation focuses on normal newborn care.  Residents see patients in the normal newborn nursery and in the Continuing Care Nursery, which functions at an intermediate level between the NICU and routine care. As the senior resident, you will coordinate the clinical and educational activities of the team, which includes medical students.

Urgent Care

Urgent care provides a one block longitudinal experience in the outpatient urgent care setting. Residents also learn about triage in a busy inner city practice. Time is also protected for your research project and continuity clinic.

Ambulatory Chief

This block provides senior residents with the experience of teaching and evaluating medical students and first year residents in the ambulatory setting while getting the opportunity to refine their own ambulatory skills. The month also exposes the senior resident to the concepts of quality improvement and proper billing and coding procedures.