General Pediatrics Fellowship

Curriculum

Clinical Teaching

Education seminars teach fellows skills in peer review, feedback, and educational planning. Fellows teach both at the medical center and in the community, where they are closely supervised by faculty, and receive evaluation and feedback from learners and supervising faculty. Each fellow spends one half-day in a resident continuity clinic setting, where the majority of teaching involves individual apprenticeship-type tutoring of residents and medical students, both in the patient’s examination room and in a conference room. Short teaching sessions are given weekly by all providers; fellows participate in these and obtain feedback from faculty, residents, and medical students.

Fellows also do 4 weeks of inpatient teaching rounds for the primary care practice, conducting small-group, patient-centered teaching on the hospital floors. Several fellows have elected to work with an individual faculty member during a 4-week inpatient teaching attending rotation, in which they round together with residents and provide teaching sessions. This elective experience provides valuable role modeling and mentoring, and teaches fellows about the role of primary care practitioners in hospital care.

Academic Teaching

Fellows make research presentations at local and national meetings. The Department hosts an annual scientific poster session where fellows display their research and teach faculty and other professionals. We use a staged approach to provide fellows opportunities to present research initially at a fellows’ seminar, where they receive constructive feedback in a comfortable environment, followed by divisional and departmental sessions, and eventually at national research meetings. This staged approach helps fellows develop increasingly sophisticated academic teaching skills.

 

General Pediatrics Fellowship

General Pediatrics