Pediatrics Residency

Our curriculum is designed to complement our residents’ clinical learning and to provide a more in-depth review of subjects included in the 25 content domains specified by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). We have an academic half day weekly from 12:30-4:30PM, that is protected from all clinical duties. 

The didactic curriculum is presented on a rotating 18-month schedule to ensure that all topics are covered twice during residency, with repeated sessions on high yield material.  

In addition, Carilion Children’s offers several other resident and faculty led lectures on a regularly scheduled basis. These conferences include:

Morning Report – Wednesday and Friday mornings from 7:30-8:00AM 
Case of the Week – Tuesdays from 12:30-1:15PM
Journal Club – 3rd Tuesday of the month from 12:30-1:15PM
Quality Improvement – 4th Tuesday of the month from 12:30-1:15PM 
Board Review/Case-based learning – monthly
Grand Rounds – Thursdays from 7:30-8:30AM  
NICU Journal Club – monthly 
Pediatric – Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds – quarterly

Resident Responsibility:

As part of our development of residents as teachers, residents on inpatient rotations are responsible for presenting our interactive morning reports. Other conferences that residents lead as part of their teaching development include (by year):

PGY1: Case of the Week (1/year), Morning Report (1 outpatient/year and assist inpatient beginning 2nd half of intern year)
PGY2: Case of the week (1/year), Journal Club (1/year), Morning Report (1-2 outpatient/year and 5-8 inpatient/year)
PGY3: Case of the week (1/year), NICU Journal Club (1/year), Pediatrics Grand Rounds (1/year), Pediatric/EM Grand Rounds (1/year), QI (1/year), Morning Report (1-2 outpatient/year and 5-8 inpatient/year)

Simulation Center:

Residents utilize the Carilion Clinic Center for Simulation, Research and Patient Safety (SIM Lab), for a longitudinal, interdisciplinary Simulation curriculum that provides simulated scenarios/cases and procedural learning specific to their level of training. Our SIM Lab is a state of the art 11,000-square-foot training facility that includes a birthing suite and neonate care area, single patient room, operating room, trauma bay, debriefing rooms, classrooms and clinical skills lab. 

Learn more about our Sim Center here

Procedural exposure:

As a program that operates without fellows, our residents have ample opportunities to obtain procedural experience with their patients. Prior to graduation, pediatric residents must meet specific procedural competencies and have opportunities to obtain competency in the following procedures:

- Bag mask ventilation
- Bladder catheterization
- Circumcision (may opt out to observe only)
- Delivery room resuscitation
- Foreign body removal
- Incision and drainage of superficial abscesses
- Immunizations
- IV line placement
- Intubation of neonates
- Laceration repair
- Lumbar puncture
- Reduction of simple dislocations
- Splinting of fractures
- Umbilical artery/vein catheterization
And more!