Year at a Glance

 

The rotation schedule is tailored to each fellow's individual learning needs and career goals. Elective options include both clinical rotations and experiences in academic and administrative areas. 

Year 1

 

Pediatric Hospital Medicine Rotation

Clinical Information

• • Children's Hospital has 3 PHM teams (Purple, Green, and Gold teams). 
  • PHM teams each consist of 1 fellow, 2 upper level residents, 2-3 interns, and 3-4 students. 
  • The PHM teams care for most inpatients outside of the ICU. This includes:
    • General pediatric patients
    • Patients with complex medical needs (including tracheostomies and home ventilators)
    • Patients requiring surgical comanagement or surgical subspecialty care
    • Patients who require certain subspecialty care (for example, Pulmonology, Neurology, and Rheumatology patients are all housed on the PHM team)
  • All pediatric subspecialties are represented and available for consultation at Children's Hospital New Orleans. 

Schedule Information

• • • One PHM month consists of 2 weeks of service (one 7-day week, one 5-day week) and 6-8 admit shifts (a mix of days and nights).
    • Admit shifts
      • During day time call, faculty/fellows are in house to see new admissions from the ER and other hospitals, as well as consults from other services. 
      • Night call is taken from home (7p-7a). Faculty or fellows will sometimes report to hospital for procedures (such as lumbar puncture) or triaging help for the residents.
        • Overnight, senior residents are called by the ER first and will call faculty/fellows if help is needed. 
        • Faculty/fellows are called first for direct admits or transfers from other hospitals.

Electives

• Elective experiences are personalized according to the fellow's individual educational and career goals.

• The Introduction to Academic Medicine rotation is offered early in the first year. It consists of four weeks of introductory experiences with leadership, administration, medical education and teaching, quality improvement/patient safety, and research. We aim to help fellows gain important exposure early on so they can start refining their own short- and long-term goals. 

• Additional available electives include, but are not limited to:

  • QI and Patient Safety 
  • Medical Education
  • Leadership
  • Business Administration
  • Advocacy
  • Research
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship
  • Complex Care 
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Psychiatry/Psychology 
  • Subspecialty clinical rotation in any pediatric subspecialty at LSU/Children's Hospital.

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Year 2

Community Hospital Experience

• The community hospital experience takes place at Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital, located in Baton Rouge (~1 hour away). 
• The community hospital rotation is four weeks long, broken up into 1-2 week experiences at a time. Local housing is available if needed. 
• Fellows work with residents and board-certified pediatric hospitalist faculty on a busy inpatient service. 

NICU and Newborn Nursery

• NICU and newborn nursery experiences are completed just down the street at Touro Infirmary. Fellows are supervised by LSU Neonatology and General Pediatrics faculty. 

Electives

• Electives are tailored to each fellow's individual career and learning goals. Many senior fellows opt to complete additional PHM rotations, and there are plenty of other available options! 

• Available electives include, but are not limited to:
  • Improvement Science and Patient Safety
  • Medical Education
  • Leadership
  • Business Administration
  • Advocacy
  • Research
  • Antibiotic Stewardship
  • Complex Care 
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Psychiatry/Psychology 
  • Subspecialty clinical rotation in any pediatric subspecialty at LSU/Children's Hospital.