Conferences
Educational conferences include Acute Care Symposium, Core Curriculum, Morning Report, Egleston Grand Rounds, Resident Grand Rounds, Practice Based Learning, Evidence-Based Medicine, Global Health, Residents as Teachers and additional specialty conferences.
Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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8-9AM | Morning Report | Morning Report | Egleston Grand Rounds | Resident Grand Rounds | Morning Report |
5-7pm | Core Curriculum |
Acute Care Symposium is held each July to provide house staff with quick tips and management pearls for clinical scenarios they are likely to encounter during residency and beyond. These lectures provide attendees an opportunity to learn up-to-date acute management skills.
Core Curriculum is a lecture series given by both faculty and fellows that covers major topics in pediatrics. The curriculum also includes other important topics such as: implicit bias and bystander to upstander training, global health, ethics, quality improvement, professionalism, residents as teachers, and meaning in medicine.
- Implicit Bias and Bystander to Upstander training is part of the residency longitudinal diversity curriculum, where residents learn about how to face and address microaggressions, and to be better advocates for their patients and themselves by learning socially-conscious care and how to be upstanders.
- Global Health Curriculum covers major global health topics. These lectures are given by faculty members with global health experience and guest lecturers with knowledge in the wide spectrum of global diseases.
- Ethics offers an opportunity for house staff to explore and discuss medical ethics under the guidance of faculty experts in bioethics.
- Quality Improvement encompasses the fundamental principles of QI and is accompanied by a hands-on workshop where residents apply these concepts. The QI curriculum prepares residents for participation in an annual residency-wide QI project. Many residents also choose to participate in smaller group-based QI projects within the CHOA system and have even developed their own independent projects.
- Medical Professionalism gives house staff and faculty the chance to present and discuss topics specifically related to professionalism in the context of medicine.
- Residents as Teachers is an interactive curriculum that is designed to provide residents at all levels with skills that allow them to become effective teachers. Examples of topics include: how to give effective feedback, methods of delivering a lecture and the hypothesis-driven physical exam.
- Meaning in Medicine is part of our longitudinal faculty and resident group mentorship program, where residents from all years are matched with faculty mentors to discuss the aspects of medicine that make our work meaningful and fulfilling.
- Morning Report is held on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday at each campus where we discuss clinical pearls and management strategies for interesting overnight admissions, time for board review through case-based discussion and team-strategy games, and review pertinent general pediatrics topics.
Egleston Grand rounds are held on Wednesday mornings and draw nationally recognized experts to discuss updates and advances in their areas of expertise. Once a quarter, the residents present interesting patient cases at our "Case of the Quarter."
Resident Grand Rounds are held on Thursday mornings and involve an interactive case-based discussion presented by a resident and moderated by faculty. A faculty member or fellow then provides a "wrap talk" on the diagnosis with clinical pearls.
Practice Based Learning (PBL) conferences provide housestaff with an opportunity to review and present a focused topic directly related to a patient’s care. All residents will present at least three PBL conferences during their training, focusing on a particular clinical or management problem they encountered during their Night Team months. The resident will review the literature and present a discussion using the known published data. Faculty provide feedback and discussion related to the clinical topics presented.