Conferences & scholarly activities

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The following is a list of conferences and other educational activities offered through the residency program at Advocate Christ Medical Center and Advocate Children's Hospital - Oak Lawn:

Educational conferences:

Morning Report (daily on wards, clinic, and nursery)
Attending Rounds (daily on the wards, the normal nursery, the NICU, and the PICU)
Lecture Block (protected time for residents 4 hours each week)
Night Shift Curriculum
Culturally Effective Health Care Curriculum
Pediatric Academic Series (weekly CME event)
Journal Club (monthly; part of EBM curriculum)
Tumor Board (monthly)
Healthy Steps (monthly case-based interactive sessions)
Board Reviews and "Pediatric Jeopardy" (ongoing throughout the year)
Ethics Series (monthly)
Residents as Teachers curriculum
Annual Board Review (protected time for 3rd year residents)

Other educational activities:

Procedure labs, NICU, ER, Interdisciplinary simulation, SimBaby/SimMan (suturing, central lines, chest tubes and intubations)
BLS, PALS, and Neonatal Resuscitation
Mock codes
EBM curriculum (case-based ACQ format, development of critically appraised topic)
Practice Management and Employment seminars
Financial Planning seminars
Health Care Systems lectures
Complimentary membership in the American Academy of Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics In-Training Exam (annually)
Cultural Effective Health Care
Developmental Screening curriculum
Bright Smiles Program for Oral Health (endorsed by the Illinois Chapter of the AAP)
Career planning seminars, including Credentialing/CV Prep
Individual Faculty Advisor/Mentor meetings
Wellness Curriculum

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Scholarly activities:

The pediatric residents are associated with a department that is active in research. Excellent clinical and basic science faculty research is ongoing at Advocate Christ Medical Center, Advocate Children's Hospital - Oak Lawn, the nearby High Tech Medical Park, and our affiliate institutions across the Advocate system.

Specialty specific Research
Research to enhance children's safety
Research conferences
Resource for research involving children
Research support services

Pediatric residents are encouraged and supported to:

Complete a research project or paper during their training.
Present their work at local and national academic meetings. Residents may apply for research funding through the hospital's Med Fund.

In the past five years, members of the Department of Pediatrics have published over 200 journal articles and book chapters, been primary authors of three major textbooks, and made over 300 presentations at national and international scientific meetings.

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Quality improvement:

All residents are required to complete a quality improvement project during the course of their residency. Each resident receives training on the tenets of Quality Improvement through a lecture series, and can then practice those skills with their own project through the AAP’s Education in Quality Improvement in Pediatric Practice (EQIPP) online program. The program is overseen by a member of the Outpatient Faculty, with several faculty mentors who help each resident develop and carry through their own project. This teaches valuable skills each pediatrician will need in their practice after residency. Residents are also encouraged to become involved in other quality improvement projects outside of EQIPP, based on their interests.