Peds Residency Program, 2008-2009
- Who We Are
- Pediatric Curriculum For Three-year Residency Program
- Med/Peds Curriculum For Four-year Residency Program
- Forms and Resident Policy and Procedure Manual
- Pediatrics and Med/Peds Resident Group Photo
- Pediatrics and Med/Peds Resident Photos
- Graduate Medical Education in Wichita
- A Community - Based Program
- Continuity Care Experience
- Inpatient Service
- The Perinatal Center
- Conference and Didactic Training
- Research
- The Wichita Pediatric Community
- Wesley Medical Center
The curriculum in the KU Medical School-Wichita Pediatric Residency Program meets standards established by the American Board of Pediatrics and the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. When you complete our program, you will be eligible for board certification.
The curriculum includes assigned rotations in the pediatric clinic, on the pediatric floor (including the intensive care unit), in the neonatal intensive care unit and in the emergency department. A broad range of subspecialty rotations is available. Our program is small enough to be flexible in scheduling electives to accommodate individual interests and educational needs.
Curriculum For Three-year Residency Program
Forms
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Pediatric and Med/Peds Resident Group Photo
Graduate Medical Education in Wichita
Medical education at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita (KU Medical School-Wichita) includes positions for 60 junior and 60 senior medical students, and more than 200 resident physicians in nine specialties: anesthesiology, family practice, geriatric psychiatry, internal medicine, medicine/pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiology and surgery. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has fully accredited all Wichita residency programs.
The Wichita Center for Graduate Medical Education (WCGME) contracts with and employs all residents. WCGME is a consortium composed of KU Medical School-Wichita, Wesley Medical Center, Via Christi-St. Francis Campus, Via Christi-St. Joseph Campus and the Veterans Administration Medical and Regional Office Center. Inpatient services in the Wichita programs take place in these hospitals.
Residents will find salaries and fringe benefits provided through WCGME most competitive.
A Community-Based Program
The KU Medical School-Wichita Pediatric Residency Program draws on extensive resources and expertise available in Wichita through a community-based approach to education. All of the approximately 50 faculty members are practicing primary care or subspecialty pediatricians. As a resident in a program with just 15 pediatric and eight medicine/pediatric residency positions, you have extraordinary opportunities to interact closely with the faculty. Because the teaching staff has trained in various programs across the United States, you are exposed to a variety of approaches to pediatric medicine.
Our principal goal is to adequately teach the house staff the proper techniques and methods of diagnosis and treatment of sick children, and to instruct them in preventive medicine for children and adolescents. Additional goals are to provide medical leadership and advocacy in the community and the state.
Continuity Care Experience
The primary outpatient department of the pediatric program is located at Wesley Medical Center and is under the direction of the Director of Ambulatory Pediatrics, a full-time faculty member. As a resident you will function as a relatively independent pediatrician working with your colleagues in the group. Well-child care, health maintenance visits and acute care visits are accomplished in the clinic setting, which is comparable to a private practice.
Each resident spends one-half day in the outpatient clinic each week for the first six months of residency. For the remaining months, two one-half day sessions per week are scheduled. This is time protected from other duties and admissions so that your efforts can be focused on the office practice.
Part of the continuity experience includes caring for two to four well newborns each week in the postpartum area of the hospital and in the Birth Care Center. You will continue to provide well-child care and follow the development of these children in the outpatient clinic throughout the three years of residency.
A physician’s assistant helps provide patient care, and a full-time faculty member is always on site for supervision and consultation. Also, the nursing staff provides assistance with phone calls and patient triage.
In addition, you will learn to provide advice to patients and family members over the phone. You will become experienced in determining if a situation can be handled by phone or if and when a patient needs to be seen.
During a monthly Ambulatory care conference, you will help faculty members review office practice problems and will be involved in some practice management decisions - just as if you were a member of a private pediatric practice. Also, a Practice Management Seminar is offered yearly for all second and third-year residents. This seminar provides you with the information needed to begin a private practice upon completion of the residency.
Our philosophy is that your education should include comprehensive and longitudinal care for your patients and their families. You will continue to follow and build relationships with the same patients throughout the three-year residency. During your residency, you will eventually develop primary responsibility for more than 150 patients. Your patients are acquired from the newborn service, the emergency department, in follow-up of unassigned admissions, and referrals from outside physicians, agencies and graduating residents.
Inpatient Service
When clinic patients are admitted to the medical center, residents will be called upon to provide and supervise their care. Residents also provide care for many patients admitted by physicians in the community.
Morning report is held each morning with an attending physician, a senior resident, other residents on the inpatient teaching panels and medical students assigned to the pediatric floor. The resident on call during the night will report overnight admissions and provide updates on patient conditions. A resident or medical student is appointed to raise questions and stimulate the discussion about an assigned topic of interest. The attending physician and senior resident offer additional information and feedback.
Following morning report, residents accompany attending physicians on their rounds, discussing patient conditions and recommended treatments. Residents then proceed with patient treatment, evaluating new admissions, participating in other scheduled activities.
When assigned to the inpatient service, residents participate in the care of approximately five to eight patients each day. The responsibilities include patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit during all three years of the program.
Our on-call goal for first-year and second-year residents on the inpatient service is five times per month. Additionally, second- and third-year residents are on call four to five times per month in a supervisory capacity for admissions, PICU care and newborn care.
The Perinatal Center
The Wesley Level III Perinatal Center offers a full complement of neonatal and obstetric services. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Special Care Nursery have 54 beds dedicated to premature and critically ill infants. The Perinatal Center is a referral base for 23,000 deliveries across Kansas and surrounding states. NICU physicians respond to more than 750 admissions annually.
The NICU incorporates the best features of the most progressive NICUs in the nation: a special design that promotes a calm environment and the appropriate level of light, two isolation rooms, and family quiet rooms for nursing moms and sibling visits. The special care nursery’s mother/baby program provides parents the opportunity to stay in a room with their baby, which helps prepare them to take their infant home.
The NICU is one of 174 centers included in the Vermont-Oxford DataBase. Patient outcomes at the Wesley NICU consistently rank in the top third compared to other centers. The neonatologists are actively involved in a number of clinical research projects.
As a pediatric resident in the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita program, you will rotate through the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit during each year of the residency. The level of responsibility in patient management will be based on the resident’s skills and knowledge. A neonatologist is always immediately available for consultation and patient care review.
Conference and Didactic Training
In addition to case presentation and discussions in morning reports, daily noon conferences are scheduled to cover subspecialty topics in Behavioral/Development and Adolescent Medicine, Ambulatory topics, and Community Grand Rounds. The residents participate in presenting Morbidity and Mortality case reviews monthly. Other didactic sessions are scheduled with smaller groups in NICU, PICU, and other subspecialty rotations.
Research
Each resident is required to complete a scholarly activity or a research project and present it in an oral and written form. During the first year, the resident is to identify a mentor and area of interest; during the second year, the resident is to complete the development and/or interactive aspects of a proposal; and during the third and final year, the resident is to complete, write and present the work.
Each resident is guided by the Research Coordinator and by a previously identified Research Mentor (selected by each resident). Other experiences are through contacts and educational programs provided by the Department of Research and invited educators.
The Wichita Pediatric Community
The Wichita pediatric community is a close-knit group. In a small residency program like ours, you have the opportunity for close interaction with your peers, faculty and attending physicians. These relationships begin during a week-long orientation held immediately before your training begins in July. Social events throughout the year include the pediatric holiday party attended by area pediatricians, residents and their spouses.
The Pediatric Interest Group (PIG) meets every few months at the home of an attending physician. Residents and faculty members are invited to attend to discuss pediatrics topics. It also provides an opportunity for medical students to interact with local pediatricians and residents. Medical students interested in pediatrics are encouraged to attend.
The Wichita Resident Spouses group also meets regularly, offering special speakers and activities for spouses of all WCGME residents.
We recognize that any residency program that is challenging and stimulating will be stressful at times. Close relationships that develop in a small program help to relieve some pressures. Additionally, time management counseling and other resources are available for those residents who would like to take advantage of support services.
Wesley Medical Center
Wesley Medical Center, a Level I trauma center with 760 licensed beds, is a longtime leader in women’s and children’s health, with well-established programs including in vitro fertilization, a Level III Perinatal Center, a freestanding Birth Care Center, neonatal intensive care, pediatric critical care, a child development program, social work, nutrition and pharmaceutical support dedicated to pediatrics. Approximately 4,800 babies are born at the medical center each year. There are more than 500 admissions to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and 1,500 admissions to pediatrics. A broad range of Pediatric specialty services are offered including cardiology, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, lithotripsy, orthopedic surgery, cranial/spinal rehabilitation, oncology, ophthalmology, neurodiagnostic testing, and electrophysiology studies.
Wesley’s LifeWATCH air Ambulance program transported more than 20,000 patients and logged more than a million air miles since its inception in 1974. In 2000 Wesley contracted Ballard Aviation which operates the EagleMed air ambulance. EagleMed nurses and mobile intensive care technicians fly rural Kansans to Wichita hospitals for tertiary care.
