Curriculum
Training Tomorrow’s Pediatric Leadership
The curriculum is designed to be flexible around each fellow’s strengths, gaps in knowledge, and career goals. What is listed is just an outline of the requirements – we offer many elective and individualized curriculum options.
Year 1
- Hospital Medicine wards (2 blocks)
- Complex Care (1 block)
- Sedation (1 block)
- Teaching (1 block)
- Newborn Nursery (1 block)
- Research (4 blocks)
- Elective/Individualized Curriculum (2 blocks)
Year 2
- Hospital Medicine wards (1 block)
- Community Hospital Medicine wards (1 block)
- Critical Care (1 block)
- Research (4 blocks)
- Elective/Individualized Curriculum (5 blocks)
- Research, Individualized curriculum, and electives opportunities may be longitudinal
Conferences
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Lecture Series
The Department of Pediatrics hosts 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 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.
A sampling of topics over the past few years:
- Tracheostomy Management
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Marshallese Culture and Medical Care
- Acute Abdomen
- Spinal Cord Injury & Autonomic Dysreflexia
- Immunodeficiencies
- Toxidromes & Ingestions
- Asthma
- Opioid Tapers
- POCUS Didactics
- REDCap: Intro to Use
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Acute Pain Management
- Newborn Delivery Care & Resuscitation
- Surgical Co-Management
- Eating Disorders
- Inpatient Rheumatology & Macrophage Activation Syndrome
- Endocrinology for the Hospitalist
- Hematology for the Hospitalist
- BRUE
- Procalcitonin
- DVT Prophylaxis
- Kawasaki vs MIS-C
- Inpatient Billing
- Personality & Work
- Diagnostic Error
Other Conferences
Subspecialty Fellows Conference: Our fellows participate in the monthly pediatric subspecialty fellows conference hosted by Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH).
Grand Rounds and PedsPLACE: Weekly educational series for ACH and pediatricians throughout the state of Arkansas.
Schwartz Rounds: Monthly panel-based talks focused on compassion in healthcare, focusing on our own coworkers and experiences.
Ready to Learn More?
Send us an email for details about upcoming conferences and lectures.
Rebecca Cantu, M.D., MPH, Fellowship Director
Email: rmcantu@uams.edu
Stephanie Veach, Program Coordinator
Email: sveach@uams.edu