Goals and Objectives

Goals and Objectives: UCCH Pediatric Rotation

To provide residents with an intensive exposure to hospitalized patients.
To provide residents with an opportunity to evaluate patients with undiagnosed problems under the supervision of an attending physician.
To provide residents with an opportunity to develop management plans for children with diagnosed medical illnesses.
To increase resident's skills at determining which patients can be managed in a general pediatric setting and which require acute care available in an intensive care unit.
To enhance residents' skills in the appropriate use of medical tests and consultant services.
To familiarize residents with a multidisciplinary approach to patient care by having them participate as a member of a health care team which includes physicians, nurses, social workers, nutritionists and other ancillary services as needed.
To provide senior residents with the opportunity to run a medical team and the opportunity to teach interns and medical students.
Educational Objectives for Residents on the UCCH Pediatric Rotation:
To learn appropriate skills for the evaluation and assessment of patients.
To learn which patients can be evaluated and cared for as outpatients and which patients require hospitalization.
To learn to formulate differential diagnoses and from them to develop appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic plans.
To learn appropriate and cost-effective use of medical testing.
To learn to develop complete discharge plans for patients and to help patients and families make a smooth transition from inpatient to outpatient care.
Senior residents should learn effective management skills to allow for the efficient running of the medical team.
Senior residents should learn the basic skill of teaching in a clinical setting, as well as the skills required for evaluating and giving feedback to the members of the team.
Senior residents, with the inpatient attending have responsibility to ensure the smooth running of the service team
Resident Responsibilities During the UCCH Pediatric Rotation:
- Residents are required to know the information about their patients necessary to provide appropriate medical care.
- Residents are required to appropriately document all patient care information, including admission notes, daily progress notes, discharge notes and transfer notes. Interns are required to dictate discharge summaries on all of the patients under their care.
- Residents are to attend all scheduled meetings except when detained by medical necessity on the wards. The scheduled meetings include pre-rounds, rounds, attending rounds, noon conferences, and radiology rounds.