Clinical experience: 

• Over the course of our three-year program our residents receive progressive exposure to more complex patients and receive increasing independence. This structure ensures that our residents have room to learn in a protected environment but are comfortable with making complex medical decisions by the time they graduate.
• 4:2:2 Block schedule: 4 weeks on a major block (wards, ER, ICU) with the following 4 weeks on elective (either 4-week major elective or 2 weeks of one elective and 2 weeks of another or night float)​​​

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Sample Schedules

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Required rotations:

• Wards teams:

  • Red Team: General Pediatrics, Cardiology, Neurology, PM&R, Consults

  • Purple Team: General Pediatrics, Pulmonology, Endocrinology, General GI, Infectious Disease

  • Blue Team: GI transplant

  • Orange Team: Hematology/Oncology, Nephrology

  • Newborn Rotation (PGY1)

  • Mt. Sinai (PGY3): Community hospital newborn nursery

• ICU rotations:

  • NICU x 2 as a PGY2

  • PICU x 1 as PGY2 and PGY3

• Required outpatient rotations:

  • Ambulatory Pediatrics (PGY1)

  • Development Pediatrics (PGY1)​

  • Adolescent Medicine (PGY1)

  • General Pediatrics (PGY2) 

  • Mobile Clinic (PGY2)

  • School Health (PGY3)          

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Individually designed electives: past examples have included administration elective, lactation elective, etc

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Individualized curriculum:

• We pride ourselves in making sure our residents are able to tailor their curriculum to meet their specific career goals. While ensuring all residents meet the ACGME requirements by graduation, we have research electives, away electives and community experiences available. Besides this, we also frequently work with our residents to create electives to meet their needs. Residents are encouraged to pursue away electives either through established partnerships in Honduras and Haiti or at a location of their choosing.

• 3 Tracks available to individualize learning:

  • Research Track

  • Allergy Immunology Track

  • Medical Education Track

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Scholarly activity:

As an academic medical center scholarly activity is an integral part of our program. 

• Quality Improvement

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• Medical Research
  • ​Through the research pathway we offer a structured curriculum with protected time for those especially interested in a career in academic medicine. The journal clubs and research lectures affiliated with this pathway are open to all our residents offering those interested a robust technical framework to complete their own projects.

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• Advocacy​
  • ​In collaboration with the pediatric mobile clinic and our school health clinics we provide care to South Florida’s most underserved communities. All residents complete a virtual advocacy project during their PGY-1 and are encouraged and supported to work on completing projects in PGY-2 and PGY-3

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• Didactic Learning​
  • Morning Report: brief reviews of evidence based medicine, QI topics, or patient management with the night float residents
  • All Things Considered: residency professional development series addressing issues such as wellness, medial education, communication skills, advocacy, and scholarship
  • Grand Rounds: lectures delivered by faculty and visiting professors in their area of expertise
  • Academic Half Day: 18 month curriculum consisting of 3 hours/week with topics divided by subject (ID, Pulmonology, Cardiology, etc) and addressing high yield topics for practice and board review; repeats so that every resident sees the entire curriculum twice
  • Staff Conference: lectures delivered by housestaff on a topic of their choosing guided by a faculty mentor, typically during PGY2

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Weekly Didactic Schedule:

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