Portfolio Requirements
The location of the portfolio requirements
What is the Pediatric Residency Handbook or App?
Their job is to facilitate recruitment, schedule meetings, arrange orientation and group activities, address licensing issues, listen to your concerns
Who is Sue Heinz? Who is Julie Beute? Who is Kimberly Longstreet? Who are our Program Coordinators ? Kimberly is also the PICU Fellowship Coordinator and the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Program Coordinator.
These clothes are NOT appropriate attire in outpatient rotations or continuity clinic. These clothes (if issued by the hospital) are also not allowed to be taken home or worn in public.
What are scrubs? Please wear a white coat in clinic if you are wearing scrubs.
The percentage required for pediatric resident attendance at all didactic lectures (Thursday afternoons 12-4), Grand Rounds, Multidisciplinary Rounds, and Morning Report.
What is 80%? Residents are pre-excused from all of the above when on vacation. Residents are pre-excused from Grand Rounds & MultiDisc when on vacation and swing shift; from Didactics when on vacation and night float; from Morning Report when on vacation and swing shift. Review attendance guidelines on p.7 of handbook for rotation specifics.
Floors, PICU, NICU, Night Float, Swing Shift, Emergency Medicine, Neurodevelopmental/Behavioral (except PGY-1s)
What are rotations that pediatric residents cannot take vacation on?
The MINIMUM number of mentor/advisor sessions needed each academic year?
What is 2?
These people coordinate resident schedules; arrange electives, coordinate rotations; approve vacation and conference requests; oversee didactic lectures, resolve call issues; serve as junior attendings on the floors, nursery or clinic; act as liaisons between residents & attendings, program directors and administrators
Who are the Chief Residents? Saji Azerf & Galen Hartman
Conference registration fees, travel, lodging & meals; education related software; technology hardware; licenses; textbooks; subscriptions (journals, etc); organizational memberships; board exam fees; step 3; medical supplies (stethoscope, otoscope, etc); humanitarian medicine trips
What are authorized items approved for reimbursement from education funds? Interns receive a $1300 stipend. Second and Third year residents receive $1600. Interns may not attend conferences except for special circumstances (presenting a research project, etc).
The number of scholarly projects required to graduate from this residency program.
What is 1? This project can be research project or a leadership role in a quality improvement project. Case reports cannot fulfill this requirement. All pediatric residents are expected to present conclusions of at least one scholarly project at a regional or national/international venue.
The programs way of individualizing each resident's curriculum.
What are Tracks? Tracks are chosen during the latter third of the first year.
On this rotation I will spend some time at a school, work with the child protection team, visit the state capitol and meet with a member of Congress, and learn about safety at the hospital
What is the advocacy rotation?
616-479-6626
What is the chief pager number? Put this number in your cell phone. This is also the first number to call when you are ill, running late, etc. You can also use perfect serve.
Charts in this setting should be completed prior to leaving at the end of your session.
What is residency continuity clinic?
The number of days in advance that call requests and vacations must be submitted by.
What is 90 days prior to the start of the rotation?
Daily Double: The location of every pediatric residency program form or document that is required to be completed and turned in by June 30th, 2018
What is the Residency Program App? Forms located here include the EBM clinical exercise, journal club article critique, mentor session documentation, scholarly project documentation, procedure post tests, newborn requirements, adolescent requirements, advocacy requirements, continuity clinic requirements, and inpatient requirements.
The best way to turn in your portfolio requirements
What is upload them into New Innovations?
These residents are responsible for developing the call schedules for each block; they send an email out for call requests 90 days in advance
What are the Senior Administrative Residents (SAR)? Lyndsey Reynolds - PICU; Emily Disbrow*/Floor Senior, Clinic Call, Jeopardy; Carrie Kastein- NICU; Caryn VandenBerg* - Floor Interns, Newborns *Chiefs 2018-2019
This test must be PASSED by the end of the PGY-2 year or the resident will not be able to become a PGY-3.
What is USMLE Step 3? Residency must formally request time off at least 30 days prior to the start of the month the examination is to be taken. You may use your educational allowance to pay for this test.
During this block of time, there are no vacations to be approved.
What is Block 7? In addition to Block 7, no vacations will be allowed during the last two weeks of Block 13 except those of graduating residents. One week of vacation must be used by Block 5, or you may lose it.
This committee is where the residency program curriculum, changes in scheduling, updating rotations, creating new electives, etc., is discussed. It includes residents, attendings, chiefs, GRMEP education team members, and the coordinators.
What is Pediatric Evaluation Committee? It meets the 2nd Monday of every month from 8-9am. Other committees include the House Staff Council, Nurse/Resident Council, Clinic Improvement Committee, and the Pediatric Residency Council.
Deadline for year 1 documentation to be turned in
What is June 30th, 2019? But don't wait until the last minute.
These people make sure that our residency program curriculum follows the ACGME/RRC guidelines. These people are available 24/7 via phone, email, text, door bells, etc.
Who are our program directors? Candace Smith-King - Program Director - 616-292-7542 Raj Pareek - Associate PD - 901-409-7924 Hanna Jaworski- Associate PD - 540-521-4510
Periods of time (time at work, charting at work, charting at home) that must be logged into New Innovations WEEKLY.
What are duty hours? -1st delinquency - you have 48 hours to get your hours logged. If you do not get it done then, you will be called to come immediately to the Program Director or Associate Program Director’s office to log in at their computer... yes, you will have to explain to your rotation attending why you need to leave immediately. -2nd delinquency- You will be called immediately to residency office to log your hours. -3rd delinquency- You will be placed on probation without pay for at least one day.
During the Fall of 2018 we moved to this as our EMR
Nexus/EPIC
The manner in which we are to treat all those with whom we come into contact (patients, families, peers, other health care staff). Treating everyone with respect, and in a dignified manner at all times.
What is professionalism?