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Schedule by Year. This includes obtaining histories and performing physical exams. During most rotations, interns are paired with PL-3 residents and actively contribute to the treatment plan through their medical knowledge. As PL-2s gain confidence in their clinical judgment, their independence in decision-making is increasing.
PL-3 residents see their clinical, teaching, and leadership skills develop further. They are also responsible for guiding the interns and medical students on their teams. The program offers two learning tracks. The Global Health Track prepares pediatric leaders for the field of global health, aiming to eliminate health disparities. Residents in this track dedicate at least two months of elective time to international rotations.
Residents engaged in the Health Equity Track receive additional mentorship and advocacy skill-building opportunities. The Categorical Program prepares residents for any field of general or subspecialty pediatrics.
This path is best suited to applicants interested in primary care, traditional academic, and subspecialty careers. Residents can follow the General Track, which is the core training program, or explore different career options through either the Primary Care track or the Subspecialty Pediatrics track. During the first year of training, residents engaged in these tracks can build on their passions by participating in one of four interest-specific Pathways: Global Health Scholars, Clinical and Translational Science, Health Professions Education, or Health Equity and Racial Justice.
Because these training sites complement each other, they offer residents a broad experience in pediatric care. Four different pathways are available to graduates who match at the residency program. One of them is the Primary Care Pathway, which prepares participants for general pediatric practice. In addition to the core curriculum, primary care residents can tailor their practice opportunities with twenty-three custom electives. Residents selected for the Global Health Pathway spend two months at an affiliated site in Guatemala.
They also participate in a global health disasters course once during residency. Meanwhile, residents interested in teaching and academic medicine can join the Medical Education Pathway.
The three main components of this pathway are experiences in medical education, scholarship, and mentorship. Biannual retreats allow time outside of the hospital to reflect, discuss program development, and play touch football! It is our goal to help you discover your passion and best prepare you to launch your career, whatever that may be. Additionally, faculty who are trained in Med-Peds and work in and around Boston lead sessions providing advice on career opportunities, fellowship, and work-life balance by sharing insight into their own career paths.
Program leadership meets with each resident at regular intervals to inquire about possible career interests and help connect residents with a variety of mentors. The quality of your educational experience is of course paramount, but one of the most important aspects of our program is the camaraderie that exists between the residents.
Beyond the friendships that are forged, there are excellent opportunities to stretch various interests to help balance your life outside of the hospital. These include the arts, sports, nature, and entertainment. Downtown Boston is a peninsula, surrounded by water on three sides: the harbor on the east and north, and the Charles River on the west. Unlike many cities, much of the waterfront is recreational space.
The Charles is lined by the mile Esplanade , a green space for all to enjoy. The harbor offers boating of all kinds, fishing, and a number of community beaches. There is a Harborwalk with many parks and other venues. The Harbor Islands are part of the National Park system and are accessible by ferry for day trips and picnicking.
Through the heart of the city, a red line designating the famous Freedom Trail brings you through the history that is central to the founding of our nation. You could also venture onto a Duck Tour to get a land and water view of the city.
Parks such as Boston Common and the Public Garden are easily accessible green spaces to enjoy. The city of Boston is made up of some twenty unique neighborhoods with Cambridge and Brookline as bordering communities. It is diverse, with a vibrant variety of people and language and cultures. There are over 27 hospitals, 3 medical schools, and some 65 colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher education that attract more than , students, making it an ideal place to learn and explore.
This student atmosphere lends itself to an energetic nightlife , from clubs surrounding Faneuil Hall to cafes and coffee houses. Restaurants also visit: Zagat abound as do a number of live music venues including Boston Symphony Orchestra at which Latin, classical, jazz, and popular music are performed. If you like sports, Bostonians are tried and true fans and truly enjoy game day, cheering on the local favorite Red Sox, Celtics, Patriots, and Bruins.
You can also get involved yourself in a city league through various community organizations. Public transportation including the MBTA subway system, bus system, and commuter rail provides extensive access to many nooks and crannies of the city as well as the surrounding area. This makes accessible nearly any neighborhood as well as many free and low-cost social opportunities throughout the year.
Our residents have enjoyed the free summer concert series at the Hatch shell on the Charles River and those at Copley Plaza, the low-cost annual membership to the sailing club on the river via Community Boating , and numerous city events throughout the year. As residents affiliated with Harvard, we enjoy university-associated discounts and access to various city-wide venues. When the snow falls, you can easily place yourself on a ski hill, cross country course, or snowshoeing trail.
Cities such as New York City and Montreal are also easily accessible by car or bus, making for a fun, urban weekend excursion.
One of the best parts of the program is the residents with whom you work. As a member of the med-peds community, lots of social activities occur outside of hospital walls, giving you the opportunity to forge friendships and mentoring relationships.
You can often find our residents spending time together in their free time, doing one of the many above-mentioned Boston activities! There are med-peds program-sponsored events from barbeques, happy hours, as well as a fall retreat for all med-peds residents.
In addition to the med-peds activities planned, our residents are fully included in all the social events and program activities within the residencies at BWH and BCH so there are lots of things to do with your colleagues and friends.
Within the four year curriculum, residents are able to spend four months two from each department abroad. There are numerous structured domestic and international rotations through both categorical residencies, ranging from Shiprock, NM to Haiti, Lesotho, Liberia, Rwanda and Tanzania. Residents can also organize their own rotations abroad and are supported in this by faculty at both institutions. Grants are available in the categorical programs to help fund these endeavors. In addition to the clinical training, residents in this program complete field work at a variety of sites throughout the world, including Haiti, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Rwanda, and Russia.
They also complete courses in the Harvard School of Public Health to obtain a Masters in Public Health as well as ongoing research projects to improve the health of individuals in resource-poor settings. Mentoring is available throughout both institutions for individuals interested in pursuing global health work in residency and throughout their career.
Our residents often take advantage of international ambulatory experiences during elective time. Financial support for travel is available to the majority of residents wishing to pursue experiences abroad.
In recent years, our program leadership and residents have participated in numerous clinical, educational, and policy initiatives geared toward improving the care of young adults with childhood-onset chronic diseases. Our recent graduates have gone on to pursue combined fellowships in hematology-oncology, endocrinology, pulmonary and critical care, rheumatology, and other fields.
In addition, our main clinical site, the Brigham Health Family Care Associates , serves as a model primary care practice for patients transitioning from pediatric to adult-centered care. Our program has developed several innovative educational initiatives in this arena, as well. We organized a Transition Symposium in April in conjunction with the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting, which involved over 75 participants from around the country, and a Transition Care Working Group comprised of interested faculty, staff, and residents from our affiliated institutions meets for educational conferences on a monthly basis.
In addition, residents from our program recently developed the Crossover Curriculum, to educate the categorical internal medicine and pediatrics residents about transition related issues.
On a policy level, our program was a national site for Got Transition? Interested residents have access to numerous other opportunities to participate in transition-related policy development, both within our affiliated institutions and on a national level. One of the great strengths of our program is training in primary care. Ambulatory education is an integral part of the training program. All of our residents have their continuity clinic in a community based health center.
Our clinic site is located within and provides services to an underserved community with ethnic and socioeconomic diversity, including many immigrants and non-English speaking patients. All residents manage their own outpatient panel of patients of all ages under the supervision of faculty preceptors. Residents attend clinic weekly and provide care to adults and children in the same session.
Residents are involved in clinic improvement projects, health fairs, and quality improvement projects looking critically at their own practice patterns and identifying areas for personal and systems improvements.
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