General Information

Rotations

Inpatient Experience: Three Weeks

• Two weeks will be spent on the pediatric inpatient service or electively in the pediatric intensive care unit with one day off each weekend. Night call is rotated among the students on the inpatient service.
• One week in the full term nursery or electively in the neonatal intensive care unit with one day off each weekend. No night call.

Outpatient Experience: Three Weeks

• One week will be spent in outpatient urgent care clinic whether at KUMC or the Health Department with weekends off and no night call.
• One week will be spent in the subspecialty clinics including but not limited to cardiology, hematology, oncology, developmental, and endocrine with weekends off and no night call.
• One week will be spent with physicians in the community (Kansas City, Topeka, Lawrence, and Paola, with other options considered if requested) with weekends off and no night call.

Didactic

• Didactics comprise a combination of daily lectures, textbooks, online, and paper resources, as well as daily teaching in the clinical settings. Teaching is given by faculty and resident members of the department, as well as from other departments on occasion. Additionally, students are encouraged to attend lectures given weekly in the department’s Grand Attending Rounds and Grand Rounds series.

Handbook

• A handbook outlining clerkship policies, dress code, schedules, requirements, evaluations, and a host of other information is available to currently enrolled students and all pediatric faculty on Angel.