Residents participate in a wide variety of didactic teaching conferences at each site, including daily morning reports, noon conferences, QI/PI (morbidity and mortality) conferences, Grand Rounds, weekly Case Conference presentations, teaching rounds, journal clubs, EBM conferences, and sessions at the UCLA Simulation Center.
Click the image below to see an example month of didactics at UCLA:
Daily
- Morning Reports at Cedars-Sinai and Olive View focus on clinical decision-making and review of cases seen by the night team, and includes case presentations by residents with teaching facilitated by the chief residents and faculty
- Noon Conference is a comprehensive didactic lecture series scheduled at each site with an integrated didactic curricula to complement the clinical experiences at each campus. The UCLA curriculum is organized to focus on case-based learning organized into organ system blocks, with case presentations by residents, and teaching facilitated by the chief residents and faculty.
- Nighttime Teaching is performed at UCLA and Santa Monica hospitals, led by in-house Pediatric Hospitalist faculty, focused on the clinical experiences of night rotations, including acute management issues and code situations.
Weekly
- Pediatric Grand Rounds at all sites are department-wide presentations on topics ranging from cutting-edge research to important clinical innovations or new developments in medical-education. Presenters include UCLA faculty, as well as invited national or international experts. UCLA Grand Rounds are teleconferenced on Friday mornings to Cedars-Sinai, Olive View, and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica.
- Continuity Clinic Conference takes place at the start of every continuity clinic session. Based on the Yale Outpatient Pediatric Curriculum, which is case-based interactive learning modules, about 50 topics are covered, one topic per week, including child development, well-child care, and common outpatient primary care issues.
Monthly
- Journal Club focuses on learning to critically appraise new research in pediatrics. A faculty member works with a second year resident to identify recently published articles, and present a review of the paper to the program. This occurs in place of one noon conference every month.
- Quality Improvement and Performance Improvement is a department-wide meeting led by the Vice-Chair for Clinical Affairs, and system-level problems identified with delivering optimal patient care, as well as presenting local Quality Improvement or Quality Assurance initiatives. This occurs in place of one morning report every month.
- Mock Codes are led by intensive care faculty, and combine didactics and hands-on scenarios to practice PALS, NRP and resuscitation skills. These occur during morning report, twice each month.
Quarterly
- Simulation (SIM) Center led by intensive care faculty, provides a full-fidelity simulation experience for residents to practice in a "mega-code" scenario. Residents are scheduled to participate in small groups twice each year.
- Evidence Based Medicine Series led by Dr. Perkins and Dr. Crummey, provides an opportunity to review and apply concepts in critical appraisal of scientific literature held monthly at Santa Monica UCLA, provides an opportunity to review and apply concepts in critical appraisal of scientific literature. Residents are scheduled to participate in small groups twice each year.
Annually
- Senior Orientation Week is scheduled at the beginning of the PL-2 year, and covers subspecialty emergencies, resident teaching, and sessions on how to be a team leader.
- Board Review Series is a resident-run review course to review and prepare for the American Board of Pediatrics certification examination. Residents are also offered significant price reduction for the national UCLA Annual Board Review course organized on by the Pediatrics Department.
- PICU Rotation Lecture Series is is scheduled during your UCLA PICU rotation and will cover mechanical ventilation, shock, traumatic brain injury, vasoactive medications, and sedative medications.
