The Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship curriculum is structured to provide clinical experience, individualized education, and research time to meet the academic goals of fellows. Fellows spend most of their inpatient clinical time at the main Dell Children’s Medical Center with rotations on the teaching and non-teaching services, as well on the Complex Care Team, which focuses on the care of children with medical complexity and chronic illness. Additional clinical time and the community experience are completed at the new Dell Children’s Medical Center North, a 36-bed facility providing general inpatient and surgical care in a community setting.
The inpatient service functions with hospitalists as the primary providers, with subspecialist consultants — an ideal structure to learn the practice of hospital medicine. The inpatient experience is complimented by rotations in palliative care, newborn nursery, sedation/anesthesia, and complex care.
The individualized curriculum is tailored to each fellow’s interests and professional goals with opportunities in all the pediatric subspecialties, leadership and hospital management, advocacy, and medical education. Additionally, fellows can design their own experiences with the assistance of program leadership and faculty mentors. Examples of fellow-developed experiences include pediatric nutrition and culinary medicine, undergraduate medical education leadership, and simulation.
The fellowship’s curriculum includes access to a wide array of didactic experiences and faculty development offerings from the program, the pediatrics department and medical school, and the national Pediatric Hospital Medicine community. In addition to monthly didactics and quarterly journal club, Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellows join all fellows quarterly in Fellows College to explore topics and professional development common across all fellowships.