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Indiana University School of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Pediatrics

Curriculum

The two-year Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship program is based at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, one of the nation’s top-ranked children’s hospitals. Fellows rotate at our free-standing children’s hospital and main community hospital. We offer three other optional community sites for electives, each providing various clinical experiences.

Our fellowship offers a Med-Peds Track for residents who completed a med-peds residency program and are interested in adding medicine experiences to their PHM fellowship. Please contact our program leadership for more information.

Hannah Locke, MD with several OB-GYN residents

The largest quaternary children’s hospital in Indiana, Riley Hospital is a free-standing children’s hospital that treats children from all over the state. The Level 1 trauma emergency department is always busy, and every pediatric subspecialty is available for consultation when needed. The Indianapolis campus is home to a large pediatric residency program and one of the largest medical schools in the country, which provides plenty of teaching experiences for fellows.

IU Health North Hospital is the community site for the PHM Fellowship. Hospitalists cover a 16-bed general pediatric and pediatric intensive care unit, where they see a broad range of pediatric patients and have many opportunities for teaching students and residents. Newborn hospitalists also cover a busy newborn unit here. PHM fellows may choose to rotate in the newborn unit, NICU, and PICU at this location.

Hospitalists here staff a newborn unit and Level 2 NICU. They attend deliveries often for infants with prematurity or other concerning conditions during pregnancy or labor. This site is optional for PHM fellows.

At this optional site, our hospitalists staff a 9-bed pediatric unit and busy newborn unit. They also complete pediatric consults in the emergency department.

This optional site includes 8 newborn beds, 7 Level II NICU beds, and a 4-bed observation unit for pediatric patients.

The fellowship program provides a flexible curriculum based around the fellow’s interests for their future career. The hospitalist program currently provides inpatient care for more than 17,000 patients each year, ensuring that fellows are exposed to a wide range of clinical patient care issues. The program is proud to co-manage patients with physicians in multiple other subspecialties, many of which are ranked nationally by U.S. News & World Report.

Trainees develop skills in pediatric hospital medicine, critical care, emergency medicine, the care of medically complex children, procedural sedation, surgical service co-management, and other topics that may be addressed through elective choices based on interest. Fellows participate in overnight, in-house shifts independently after initial training, in order to promote autonomy.

Available electives include but are not limited to: toxicology, child protection team, transport medicine, pain team, neurology, rheumatology, genetics and metabolism, infectious disease, education, leadership and many other subspecialties available at Riley Hospital. Indiana University School of Medicine offers additional training pathways including global health, healthy outcomes, clinician-educator and leadership, which fellows may participate in if interested.


Two-Year Curriculum

32 weeks of core clinical time  
Inpatient Hospitalist at Riley Hospital for Children 6 weeks
Community Hospitalist at IU Health North Hospital 4 weeks
Newborn Hospitalist at IU Health West Hospital 4 weeks
Hospitalist Nights 4 weeks
Complex Care 2 weeks
Sedation 2 weeks
Pediatric ICU 2 weeks
Individualized core curriculum (additional weeks of core clinical above or Emergency Department) 8 weeks
Individualized Curriculum (Electives or additional core clinical above) 32 weeks
Scholarly Time 32 weeks
Vacation 4 weeks per year

Education

michael goodman speaking at an elementary school education event

Education is a priority for the pediatric hospitalist group, and many hospitalists have completed formal training in education. Practicing at the site of one of the biggest medical schools in the United States and a large pediatric residency program, there are always plenty of opportunities to teach medical students and residents. The pediatric hospitalist service is divided into two teams, each staffed by one staff hospitalist and composed of a senior resident, two to three pediatric interns or family medicine residents, one sub-I student and two third-year medical students. Fellows will lead one of these teams while on service, acting as the staff while receiving supervision from a hospitalist.

Fellows participate in education training through didactics and the completion of Tier One of the Academy of Teaching Scholars. Each fellow completes and receives feedback on teaching sessions for residents and students, along with their clinical teaching while on service.

Advocacy is an important part of education and health care. A pediatrician's duty is to advocate for their patients’ health and well being. As part of the pediatric hospitalist curriculum, fellows receive training in advocacy and can create an advocacy project based around their interests in a health care process that requires change.

Global Health

Photo from Global Health webpageIU School of Medicine provides many opportunities in global health, including the AMPATH partnership with Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya. PHM fellows with interests in global health may use individualized curriculum (elective) time to travel to locations approved by the GME to complete global health rotations.

Camp Riley

Camp Riley promo photoPHM fellows may spend individualized curriculum (elective) time at Camp Riley during the summer months. Learn more on the Camp Riley website or by contacting the fellowship director.