The faculty in the Department of Pediatrics have dedicated themselves to teaching residents in a well-balanced program of didactic lectures and hands-on experience. Residents rotate through the various outpatient services in the pleasant environment of the HC Miller building, the inpatient services, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Residents also have the opportunity to work at various community sites and further afield (see Training: Outside Experience).

Program "Road Map":

Rotation:	Time Spent:
Inpatient Services	7 months
Neonatal ICU	4 months
Full-term Nursery	3 months
Pediatric ICU	2 months
Emergency Department	2 months
Night Service	1 month
Urgent Care Clinic	3 months
Community Pediatrics	2 months
Adolescent Pediatrics	1 month
Developmental Pediatrics	1 month
Behavioral Pediatrics	1 month
Electives (Four from required list)	8 months
Research Month	1 month

Subspecialty Training:

Residents receive subspecialty training in Hematology/Oncology, Neonatology, Rheumatology, Infectious Disease, Neurology, Cardiology, Allergy, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Adolescent Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Surgery, and Behavioral Pediatrics. Additional educational opportunities are available through pediatric radiology, pediatric ophthalmology, pediatric neurosurgery, pediatric urology, pediatric orthopedic surgery, pediatric cardiovascular surgery, and pediatric plastic surgery.

PL-l Responsibilities

1. Write a complete admitting medical history and perform physical examination, to include developmental assessment
2. Generate differential diagnosis and management plan
3. Record daily progress notes after assessment of patient
4. Provide daily care of patients to include common technical procedures and follow up on x-rays and laboratory results
5. Closely work with students, participate in their bedside teaching & close follow-up of patients with them
6. Communicate with the patient, the family, and the referring physician as delegated
7. Be responsible for inpatient junior call as per schedule
8. Participate in Core Curriculum, Rounds, educational and teaching conferences
9. Provide on-going care as the primary physician to their continuity clinic patient, and be available to their patients at all times
10. The PL-1 resident is responsible for completing the discharge summary within 48 hours of discharge, and must have all discharges summaries completed at the end of each rotation

PL-2 Responsibilities

1. Participate in daily patient care and be responsible for:
   1. monitoring the patient care related activities of PL-l residents and medical students
   2. independent gathering of information by history and physical examination
   3. assessment of clinical and laboratory data
   4. appropriate management of patients
2. Take senior call after hours and on weekends and be the admitting resident during that time
3. When on an elective rotation, act as liaison between that subspecialty and the senior resident on the floor. Make daily contact with the inpatient senior after appropriate clinical assessment of patients with appropriate chart documentation
4. Guide PL-1 resident through case presentation at morning conference when on inpatient service or post-call
5. Assume increasing teaching responsibilities of students and PL-1 residents
6. Communicate regularly with the patient, the family, and the referring physician
7. Provide on-going care as the primary physician to their continuity clinic patients, and be available to their patients at all times
8. Participate in teaching conferences
9. In the absence of the PL-1 resident, the senior resident is responsible for completing the discharge summary within 48 hours of discharge, and must have all discharges summaries completed at the end of each rotation

PL-3 Responsibilities

1. Assume a supervising role on the inpatient and outpatient services
2. Demonstrate the ability to function as an independent clinician with the ability to manage simple to complex problems and direct/assess day-to-day patient care
3. Act as consultant to the other departments
4. Actively participate in teaching conferences such as M&M Conference, Grand Attending Rounds, Resident Conferences and Teaching Rounds
5. Teach junior residents and students how to diagnosis and manage commonly seen general and subspecialty problems
6. Provide on-going care as the primary physician to their continuity clinic patients, and be available to their patients at all times
7. In the absence of the PL-1 resident, the senior resident is responsible for completing the discharge summary within 48 hours of discharge, and must have all discharge summaries completed at the end of each rotation
8. Communicate regularly with the patient, the family, and the referring physician