Curriculum at a Glance
First-year residents
First-year residents rotate monthly through the following areas:
- Inpatient General Pediatrics and Subspecialty Units (7 blocks)
- Well newborn nursery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP)
- HUP Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Emergency Department
- Primary Care
- Development and Advocacy/Community Outreach
- Elective
Second-year residents
Second-year residents assume more patient care responsibility, supervise medical students and interns and rotate through the following areas:
- Complex Inpatient Subspecialty (Oncology, Cardiology, Endocrine-Metabolism, Adolescent-Renal; 4 blocks)
- Inpatient Service Supervisory Rotation (on a General Pediatrics/Subspecialty Unit)
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- CHOP Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Emergency Department (2 blocks)
- Primary Care
- Ambulatory Adolescent and Advocacy
- Electives (2 total, 1 call-free)
Third-year residents
Third-year residents assume the major supervisory role in the inpatient units, the emergency department and the neonatal intensive care unit. In addition, senior residents choose from a broad range of elective options. The PL-3 year consists of the following rotations:
- Inpatient Service Supervisory Rotation (on a General Pediatrics/Subspecialty Unit, 2 total)
- HUP NICU Supervisory Rotation
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Teaching, Admitting, and Triage Resident Rotation (1-2 total)
- Emergency Department (2 blocks)
- Primary Care
- Advocacy
- Electives (3 total, 1 call-free)
| CHOP Pediatric Residency | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL1 | PL2 | PL3 | Total | ||
| Inpatient Medicine | Inpatient Units (General Pediatrics/Subspecialty) |
7 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| Well Newborn Nursery | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| PICU | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| NICU | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Inpatient Adolescent | 0 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 1-2 | |
| Complex Inpatient Subspecialty (Oncology, Cardiology, Endocrine-Metabolism) |
0 | 3-4 | 0 | 3-4 | |
| Outpatient Medicine | Emergency Department | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Primary Care | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Developmental Pediatrics* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ambulatory Adolescent* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Advocacy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Teaching Resident | 0 | 0 | 1-2 | 1-2 | |
| Elective | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| 13 | 13 | 13 | 39 | ||
| * Advocacy experience incorporated into these rotations | |||||
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