Throughout the three years, each resident participates in a continuity clinic. This provides a special experience for the resident to observe the physical, emotional and intellectual development of a child over an extended period of time. The resident is the primary care physician to healthy children as well as to those with chronic and acute illnesses. These clinics meet one to two half-days per week.

The curriculum provides an organized, progressive educational opportunity spanning three years. Clinical care, supervisory and educational responsibilities are commensurate with the resident's experience and abilities. Throughout the curriculum, residents are provided the opportunity to become competent in the performance of many procedures. Satisfactory completion of the program fulfills the qualifications for certification established by the American Board of Pediatrics.

Program Details

Inpatient educational experiences take place at Children's Medical Center of Dayton. Residents' ambulatory experiences are enhanced by outpatient rotations. These rotations occur in a setting specifically focused on delivering outpatient care to healthy children as well as acutely and chronically ill children. Pediatric residents participate in patient care activities in the inpatient setting, intensive care settings, emergency department and subspecialty clinics at Dayton Children's.

Pediatric residents in the integrated program are able to work at Dayton Children's and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center (WPMC). Through work at both locations, residents treat patients from different ethnic, socioeconomic and geographic settings. Each facility is staffed by a faculty of pediatric generalists and subspecialists who are recruited for their commitment to education. Both sites also provide pediatric training to medical students from the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine and other primary care residency programs in the area.

Intensive care months (Critical Care, Neonatology), the majority of inpatient wards, emergency medicine months and most subspecialty electives are at Dayton Children's. Ambulatory care and adolescent months occur at WPMC Pediatric Ambulatory Center. The Normal Newborn month is at WPMC during PL-1 year. The program is set up to have 13 twenty-eight day blocks an educational year.

Conferences

The content of educational conferences and rounds are based on teaching how to utilize basic science resources in the development of an understanding of the mechanisms of diseases and their management. Lecture Schedule and Call Schedules are posted on web page.

1. Morning Report
2. Core Curriculum Conference (weekly). *
3. Pediatric Grand Rounds (weekly). *
4. Resident Case Conference (weekly). * Including ethics case on a regular basis.
5. Morbidity and Mortality Conferences (monthly). *
6. Radiology Conference
7. Ethics * (during morning report)

* Residents are required to attend these conferences. Attendance is monitored, and the expectation is that residents attend 70 percent of the "required" conferences.

* Wednesday morning from 9:30-11 a.m. is MANDATORY.

Research

Although completion of a research project is not a mandatory part of the curriculum, participation in research is encouraged. Elective rotations may include research opportunities in a variety of disciplines. Collaboration with faculty can result in ongoing clinical research throughout a resident's curriculum. Resident research endeavors result in opportunities to present findings at national meetings and in peer-reviewed journals.

Additional Opportunities

Residents participate in activities leading to certification for Pediatric Advanced Life Support during their orientation week. The American Board of Pediatrics In-Training Examination provides residents with a yearly measurement of their progress and information to help them tailor their educational experiences. Residents may participate on Professional Staff Committees at The Children's Medical Center, gaining insight into the peer review and quality management activities of pediatricians. Resident representatives are members of the Department of Pediatrics Education Committee, providing an active role in their program development. Annual resident retreats are offered to allow the house staff to reflect on the training program and their experiences. Many important changes have directly resulted from these retreats.