Residency program

Overview

The Advocate Christ Medical Center Pediatric Residency Program is dedicated to preparing physicians for a career in pediatrics, whether as a subspecialist or generalist. During the three-year program, residents experience a rich variety of pediatric experiences at Advocate Children's Hospital - Oak Lawn from the diagnostic dilemmas and management challenges of primary care to highly sophisticated and unusual examples of tertiary care.

Program specifics

Residents who train at Christ Medical Center diagnose and manage a range of acute and chronic pediatric diseases of all levels of severity. The residents develop competency in managing "bread and butter" cases, as well as unusually and critically ill patients on the inpatient services and critical units, and in the acute care clinic and the pediatric emergency center.

Ambulatory settings are used extensively for the education of the residents, in general and subspecialty pediatrics. In addition to acute care, continuity clinics and office-based activities, outpatient experiences are formally required in:

In addition, residents spend time in the outpatient setting during their medical subspecialty electives.

Each intern has a continuity clinic in the outpatient setting with access to a social worker, dietician, and Healthy Steps specialist. Since November 2000, our residency has been a pilot program for the national Healthy Steps initiative. Healthy Steps is a clinical and educational program that emphasizes the promotion of health and optimal development in young children. Under the supervision of a trained Healthy Steps specialist, the residents longitudinally participate in community activities centered around developmental support such as Early Intervention and the WIC Program.

The basic in house schedule is as follows:

Daily Schedule
Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Tuesday and Thursday 11a-1p lecture block)
Sign-out and Morning Report for inpatient team	6:30 a.m. to 8 a.m.
Pre-Round/Family Centered Rounds	9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Table Rounds	1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Continuity of Care Clinics (one half-day per week)	1 p.m.
Sign-out Day team to Night Team	6 p.m.
Night shift teaching	7 p.m. to 8 p.m.