Curriculum
Our curriculum is designed to be flexible and adaptable to your educational needs and career goals.
Year 1
Hospital Medicine I (8 weeks): The fellow functions as the attending, team leader, and teacher of the team. Experienced PHM faculty will directly or indirectly supervise (based on your training level) and are actively involved in providing feedback in areas the fellow specifically chooses to focus on, such as rounding efficiency, bedside education, documentation, etc. We do not currently require overnight shifts for our fellows.
Complex Care (4 weeks): A variety of inpatient and outpatient complex care experiences including multidisciplinary clinics (Complex Care, High-Risk Newborn, Spinal Cord), hands-on learning (tracheostomies, physical & occupational therapy), rounding on the inpatient acute care rehabilitation team, and touring a local pediatric complex care facility.
Sedation (4 weeks): Training in procedural sedation alongside PEM and PCCM fellows, with didactics led by Pediatric Critical Care faculty.
Medical Education (4 weeks): A menu of options lets you choose the areas that interest you most – curriculum development, effective teaching strategies, competency-based medical education & assessment, learner feedback, etc. This block includes many opportunities for participating in student and resident education such as noon conference, inpatient resident didactics, Academic Half-Day, Junior Medical Student mentorship, and more. An advanced 2nd-year elective is also available.
Newborn Nursery (4 weeks): Fellows work at UAMS in the Newborn Nursery, rounding on neonates, attending deliveries, and performing procedures.
Research (16 weeks): At the beginning of your first year, you’ll narrow down a research interest and we’ll begin to identify a mentor and resources to help you design your project. All fellows will gain experience with different types of study design and research, including retrospective database projects, quality improvement, medical education, and more.
Community Hospital Medicine (2 weeks): You’ll spend 2 weeks in your first year at our community branch in beautiful northwest Arkansas, working with amazing hospitalists in a 21-bed inpatient unit and covering the Clinical Decision Unit. You’ll get experience determining transportation to the main campus and calling our Operations Center for transfer.
Electives & Individualized Curriculum (12 weeks): Designed to fit your educational needs and career goals! Here is a partial list of options – but if you don’t see it here, we can create it for you!
Infectious Diseases
Operations Center & Transport Medicine
Patient Safety
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Ultrasound
Pediatric Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
EKG Reading
Year 2:
Hospital Medicine 2 (4 weeks): As a 2nd-year fellow, you will continue your growth as a leader and educator, gaining further experience in feedback, documentation and billing, and multidisciplinary team management.
Critical Care (4 weeks): This rotation focuses on experience in procedures, response to escalations in care, and optimizing transitions in care. Additional opportunities such as goals of care meetings and transport calls are typically available.
Community Hospital Medicine (2 weeks): Immerse yourself in an amazing community hospital experience in Springfield, MO, where you will work with a dedicated team of community hospitalists with a passion for fellow education while teaching family medicine residents and experiencing hospital medicine in a different type of hospital system.
Research (16 weeks): Your research project(s) will continue longitudinally throughout your fellowship, culminating in a scholarly product – typically a manuscript ready for submission to a peer–reviewed journal. Our fellows present their scholarly work at UAMS Fellows’ Research Forum as well as regional meetings like the Southern Society for Pediatric Research Southern Regional Meetings and the national Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Pediatric Academic Societies conferences.
Electives & Individualized Curriculum (24 weeks)
Former fellow, Cindy Nguyen M.D., practicing with an ultrasound at the PHM conference.
Conferences
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Didactics
Our curriculum includes multiple didactic sessions covering a wide variety of clinical, scholarly, and educational topics.
PHM Lecture Series: Twice-monthly sessions following section meetings which are designed for and by our hospitalists, covering a variety of topics including clinical reviews, research, quality, and education-oriented topics, plus other areas that we just want to learn about! We also use this slot for the quarterly Journal Club and Case Report Writing Groups where hospitalists can get feedback and work together on case reports or other scholarly activities in progress. These talks are given by a variety of speakers including our hospitalists, fellows, residents, subspecialists, and ancillary care team members. These lectures are approved for CME credit.
Recent topics include Bugs vs. Drugs: Antibiotic Overview; Point-of-Care Ultrasound; Inpatient Billing; Tracheostomy Decannulation; Update on New Teaching & Feedback Techniques
Peds Subspecialty Fellows Conference: Our fellows participate in the bimonthly pediatric subspecialty fellows conference hosted by ACH (Arkansas Children’s Hospital).
Recent topics include Patient Safety in Pediatrics; Curriculum Development & Small Group Teaching; Critical Literature Review; plus, a 2-part hands-on statistics workshop!
PHM Resident Didactics: Weekly educational session for residents on the inpatient service, with a rotating quarterly curriculum. Fellows play a key role in both creating and teaching the didactics, which are interactive and frequently game-based.
Department of Pediatrics Continuing Education: Weekly educational series for ACH and pediatricians throughout the state of Arkansas
Recent topics include: The Hospitalized Breastmilk-Fed Patient: Clinical Strategies for Optimal Outcomes; Secondary Traumatic Stress; A Framework for Improving the Care of Children Through Pediatric Research; Navigating a New Approach to the Poisoned Pediatric Patient
Schwartz Rounds: Monthly panel-based talks focused on compassion in healthcare, focusing on our own coworkers and experiences – facilitated by one of our hospitalists, Dr. Wood-Katz!
Recent topics include ADHD, transgender patients with unsupportive families, factitious disorder imposed on a child
Fellow Board Prep: Monthly in-person sessions focused on both knowledge content and test-taking skills, supplemented with weekly online questions.
Fellow, Satvika Mikkilineni D.O., and former fellow, Cindy Nguyen M.D., presenting at PHM Didactics.
Ready to learn more?
Send us an email for details about upcoming conferences and lectures.
Rebecca Cantu, MD, MPH
Fellowship Program Director
rmcantu@uams.edu
Katherine Tang, MD, MD
Associate Program Director
ktang@uams.edu
Maia Ghosh, MHA
Program Coordinator
DGhosh2@uams.edu