Curriculum | Residencyprogram

Program Curriculum

Our goal is to train competent and compassionate general pediatricians armed with the tools they need to succeed in either general pediatric practice or sub-specialty fellowships.

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)

Sample Schedules:

PGY1:

PGY2:

PGY3:

Required Rotations:

Wards Teams:

Red Team: General Pediatrics, Consults, Neurology, Cardiology, Endocrinology
Purple Team: General Pediatrics, Infectious Disease, Pulmonology, Rehab
Blue Team: GI transplant
Orange Team: Hematology/Oncology
Green Team: Nephrology, General GI
Newborn Rotation
Mt. Sinai: Community hospital newborn nursery

ICU rotations:

NICU x 2 as a PGY2
PICU x 1 as PGY2 and PGY3

Required Outpatient rotations:

Ambulatory Pediatrics
Development Pediatrics
Adolescent Medicine
General Pediatrics
Mobile Clinic
School Health

Elective Rotations:

Scholarly activity:

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

Quality Improvement

Didactic Learning:

Morning Report: case-based learning led by inpatient teams
Grand Rounds: lectures delivered by faculty and visiting professors in their area of expertise
Academic Half Day: 18-month curriculum consisting of 2 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 (PGY2) on a topic of their choosing guided by a faculty mentor

Weekly Didactic Schedule:

Major electives (4 weeks)
- Allergy/Immunology
- Cardiology
- Child Protection Team
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Genetics
- Hematology/Oncology
- Infectious Disease
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Pulmonology

Minor electives (2 weeks):
- Anesthesiology
- Dermatology
- ENT
- Hospitalist
- Orthopedics
- Neurodevelopmental
- Palliative Care
- Psychiatry
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Sports Medicine
- Medical Education
- Admitting Senior

Continuity clinic

Jackson Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) Pediatric Clinic
Option as PGY3 to participate in subspecialty-hybrid clinic alongside ACC

Other Primary Care sites

UHealth Pediatrics at Kendall
UHealth Pediatrics at the Desai Sethi Medical Center

All our residents complete the IHI QI curriculum
and are mentored through virtual QI project during PGY-1, after which they are coached through their own QI projects during PGY-2 and PGY-3.
The Family Centered Rounds QI initiative from the Pediatrics Department won second place at the JMH 2024 Quality and Safety Showcase. The QI team gave an oral presentation at PAS 2025 in Hawaii.

Longitudinal Professional Curriculum:

We host a series of interactive workshops to help cultivate the professional development of our residents. Some topic sessions include:

IPASS
How to be a Good Senior
Conflict Resolution
5 Minute Preceptor
Interdisciplinary teams
Difficult Conversations