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Curriculum and Assessment

Residents Year 1

3 blocks of Inpatient Wards Junior
6 weeks of PICU
1 block of NICU Glen - CTU Junior
2 x 2 weeks Junior Ward Night Float
1 block of Medical Day Hospital
1 block of Emergency Medicine
1 block PCC (IMG)
1 block Rural (CMG)
2 weeks of Anesthesia
2 weeks Normal Newborn Nursery
1 block of subspecialty selective
2 weeks of Complex Care Service (CCS)

Residents Year 2

1 block of PICU
2 blocks of NICU (JGH & NICU Glen - Low Acuity team)
1 block Emergency Medicine
1 block of Adolescent Medicine
1 block of Developmental Pediatrics
1 block Rural (CMG)
1 block Community (IMG)
1 block of Social Pediatrics
2 x 2 weeks Senior Ward Night Float
1 week NICU Night Float
Electives (3 - 8 weeks each elective)

Residents Year 3

3 blocks of Inpatient Wards Senior
1 blocks NICU (Glen)
1 block of ER
1 block of Rural (CMG)
1 block of Community (IMG)
2 weeks of ICU NF (i.e. 1 week PICU/1 week NICU)

Residents Year 4

4 weeks of Night Float (i.e. 2 weeks ward Night Float, 2 weeks NICU/PICU NF)
4-6 weeks of Complex Care Service
4-6 weeks of Medical Day Hospital
2 weeks of Medical Admissions and Patient Flow Junior Attending
4 weeks of Acute Care (ER, PICU or NICU)
Electives (3 - 8 weeks per elective)

General Pediatrics Important Dates 2023-2024

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Academic Half-Day

Pediatric Residents have a mandatory protected academic half-day on Tuesday afternoons. The half-day consists of one hour of resident led ‘chief of service rounds’ and three hours of interactive presentations, workshops, and simulations. All CanMEDs roles are addressed over the course of our three-year curriculum.

General Pediatric Summer Bootcamps

The boot camp curriculum is part of the summer protected teaching/academic half day, specific to each level of training. The Boot Camp aims to cover the "must know" topics that are essential to function competently within the new roles and expectation of a given training year. PGY-1 focuses on starting residency in general, and PGY2 focuses on but is not limited to the ward senior role.

Goal
To best prepare trainees for their new clinical roles and responsibilities as they progress through their different stages of training. Ultimately, we aim to enhance patient care in the context of key transition period during pediatric residency training.The boot camp curriculum is currently structured as follows:

PGY1 Boot Camp (4 days at the beginning of residency)

  • Clinical Skills sessions (e.g. handover, beside presentation, and documentation)
  • Procedural Skills in a simulated setting (e.g. lumbar puncture and wound management)
  • Dealing with emergency clinical situations in a simulated setting (e.g. case scenarios covering the initial steps expected to be done by an incoming PGY1 resident, such as respiratory deterioration, hypovolemic shock and seizures).

PGY2 and PGY3 Boot Camp (3 summer academic half-days)

  • Topics for PGY2s include: hematological emergencies, coaching junior trainees, approach to time management during night float.
  • Topics for PGY3s include: learning beside rounds, leading multi-disciplinary meetings, the discharge of patients with medical complexities.
  • Topics for both PGY2s and PGY3s include: dealing with the palliative care patients, challenging communication with supervisors.

Assessments

OSCE's

The General Pediatrics Core Residency Program runs 2 OSCE’s per year for Pediatric Residents as well as Subspecialty Residents and Fellows in their Pediatric RCPSC exam year. The OSCE content is developed in collaboration with the other Canadian Pediatric Residency Programs.

STACERs

The STACER exam is an observed complete pediatric consultation (history, physical exam, diagnostic impression) done by a third year Pediatric Resident. There are two examiners assigned to each resident who observe the entire encounter and complete a checklist evaluating their performance. Successful completion of this activity is required to be eligible to write the RCPSC exam and complete training.

For current trainees, further details on the academic curriculum can be found on .

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