Education & Training
Learn More About Our Education Components
Our fellows receive comprehensive training through direct patient care, extensive clinical and didactic training and are required to complete a scholarly project based on their areas of academic interest. Learn more about each of our comprehensive training components.
Our fellows receive comprehensive training through both direct patient care and extensive clinical and didactic training. Fellows are required to complete a scholarly project based on their areas of academic interest. Learn more about each of our comprehensive training components.
Clinical Training
Clinical training experiences are designed to expand inpatient clinical skills as well as bedside teaching skills for a wide range of learners. Clinical training focuses on leading an interdisciplinary team with the focus on the highest quality evidence-based care. Fellows will work with a broad patient base with significant experience managing medically-complex patients in addition to routine pediatric medical problems. Through family centered rounds and consultation with our other pediatric subspecialists our fellows build the skills needed to excel in relationship and team-based care. There is a focus on graduated autonomy for our fellows in a variety of clinical settings. Service is provided across all our clinical sites.
Clinical experiences include:
- Dedicated service time on our hospitalist teaching service with graduated autonomy
- Rotations in a community hospitalist non-teaching service
- Night coverage on our hospitalist teaching service
- Pediatric sedation
- Newborn nursery
- Co-fellow in the PICU with a focus on assessing and stabilizing the critically ill child
- Surgical co-management experience
- Comprehensive care patient experience
- Palliative care experience
The Pediatric Hospital Medicine Division is an integral part of the clinical services offered at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s. The primary hospital includes a 244-bed state-of-the-art tertiary children’s hospital that includes a 20-bed PICU staffed by pediatric critical care specialists. We have the privilege of working closely with a diverse and talented group of pediatric medical and surgical specialists. UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s is an American College of Surgeons-accredited Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center.
Didactic Training
In addition to hands-on learning centered on our broad patient base, we offer structured divisional didactic sessions. All fellows take a month long introductory course on clinical research and study design offered through the medical school. Monthly journal clubs foster evidence-based practice and critical appraisal of the literature. Monthly case based conferences allow us to learn from each other about interesting and challenging patients as well as engage in consultation with our other subspecialists. Fellows are expected to lead journal club as well as present at our case based conferences regularly during their fellowship.
In addition to divisional activities, our fellows participate in our hospital-wide fellowship curriculum, which focuses on research, quality improvement, and medical education and leadership skills. These sessions are run through the medical education department and involve pediatric fellows from all subspecialties. It is a rotating two-year curriculum to ensure that all areas are covered prior to fellowship completion.
A multitude of other educational conference and experiences are available to fellows as one of the benefits of being incorporated into a large, world-class academic medical center which serves as the primary teaching site for Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Some examples of excellent educational opportunities which are available to fellows within our program include:
- Rainbow Pediatric Residency Program Conference Series (daily didactic conferences on a huge variety of topics)
- Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds
- Department of Pediatrics Advocacy Conference series
- Fellows as Subspecialty Teachers (FAST) medical education track
- Pediatric Ethics Rounds
- Case School of Medicine Annual Educational Retreat
Fellows in our program are given the opportunity to attend the National PHM Fellows’ Conference annually.
Scholarly Activities
Fellows are required to pursue a scholarly project based on their areas of academic interest. This scholarly project can come from any of the scholarly domains identified within the pediatric hospital medicine curriculum. Each fellow completes an introductory clinical research course as well as additional didactic training across all domains. Time for development and implementation of the scholarly project is protected aside from clinical expectations.
- Clinical research
- Quality improvement
- Patient safety
- Medical education
- Leadership
- Advocacy
- Practice management
Faculty in the division have expertise in these areas and are available as mentors for all fellowship projects. In addition, faculty across multiple subspecialty divisions are available as members of our fellow’s scholarship oversight committees to provide an alternative perspective on project design and implementation, statistical analysis and abstract development.