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Education/Conferences

  1. Core Curriculum Lecture Series: Monthly lectures provided by faculty focusing on board review topics which are interactive, occurring during the designated education time. Others have been developed into case-based learning modules to foster self-directed learning. The American Board of Pediatric board content specifications are covered in this series.
     
  2. Journal Club: Monthly presentation presented by fellows to faculty with the objectives of learning how to formulate a clinical question, learning techniques on searching the medical literature efficiently, learning how to efficiently read a journal article, critically appraising a variety of journal articles.
     
  3. M&M Case Conference: Quarterly presentation by fellow to faculty, designed to examine, via case presentation, an example based on experience, current literature and evidence-based medicine. Topics can include, but are not limited to, those involving current practice guidelines, clinical or hospital practice, pathology and histology, medical-legal issues, ethical issues, or advocacy.
     
  4. Pediatric Departmental Fellow Conference: Weekly sessions focusing on topics that might be more suited to group discussion outside of the traditional didactic format, such as burnout, the impaired physician, and/or dealing with difficult patients. Supplemental curricular tools, articles, book discussions, and self-assessments, may be utilized.
     
  5. Frontiers in Pediatric Research: Weekly state-of-the-art research science presentations by faculty and guest speakers.
     
  6. Pediatrics Grand Rounds: Weekly state-of-the-art clinical science presentations by faculty and guest speakers.
     
  7. The program funds each fellow’s completion of the Pediatric Flexible Bronchoscopy Postgraduate Course: Principles and Practice of Flexible Bronchoscopy in Pediatric Patients, held at Cincinnati Children’s. More information can be found here.