Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Curriculum
Introduction
Exceptional physicians are developed through mentorship, collaboration and fostering curiosity.
Our faculty are deeply invested in fellow success. Our curriculum provides an inclusive environment to support learning, but also where fellows are challenged, and empowered to reach their individual goals.
Training consists of 16 weeks of clinical weeks per year, for each of the two years of fellowship. Clinical training will occur at the OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois (CHOI) campus, with 4 weeks being spent at community sites. 16 week of electives rotations are available including, but not limited to, cardiology, pulmonology, palliative care, anesthesia, radiology, child abuse pediatrics, and infectious disease. Additionally, trainees may choose to complete a simulation fellowship during their time at CHOI.
Scholarly time is spent in QI and research endeavors including research training, completion of IHI modules, Stanford teaching series and Simulation and debrief education.
Clinical Experiences Include:
- General Pediatric Hospital Medicine
- Newborn medicine with Level II nursery
- Pediatric intermediate Unit
- Pediatric consultative services with over a dozen subspecialties and medical co-management
- Triage, emergency stabilization and transfer management experience
- Pediatric procedural sedation
- Multidisciplinary care of medically complex children and transition services from pediatrics to adult based care
Areas of Scholarship Include:
- Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
- Clinical research
- Medical Education
- Simulation based education
- Health equity and healthcare innovation
- Pediatric procedural sedation research
Every fellow completes meaningful scholarly work with dedicated faculty mentorship and protected research and academic time.
Sample Schedule
Year 1
- Block 1: Orientation/Research intensive
- Block 2: Research Intensive
- Block 3: Wards/Elective
- Block 4: Elective/Elective
- Block 5: Wards/Scholarly
- Block 6: Scholarly/POCUS
- Block 7: Community nursery/Elective
- Block 8: Wards/Elective
- Block 9: Elective/Complex Care
- Block 10: Wards/Elective
- Block 11: Wards/Scholarly
- Block 12: Wards/Elective
- Block 13: Wards/Elective
Year 2
- Block 1: Wards/Elective
- Block 2: Wards Elective
- Block 3: Wards/Elective
- Block 4: Complex Care/Elective
- Block 5: Scholarly/Wards
- Block 6: Wards/Elective
- Block 7: Elective Scholarly
- Block 8: Wards/Scholarly
- Block 9: Wards/Scholarly
- Block 10: Community Nursery/Elective
- Block 11: Elective/Scholarly
- Block 12: Elective/Scholarly
- Block 13: Elective/Scholarly