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Scholarship and Conferences

Each fellow begins the fellowship program with a designated Scholarship Oversight Committee. With the assistance of this committee, the fellow identifies research mentor(s) to be added to this committee based on his/her individual scholarship interests. Fellows will be expected to meet regularly with their mentors and members of their Scholarship Oversight Committee. They will receive additional feedback on their scholarly progress at the Division Scholarly Work-in-Progress meetings. Fellows will be expected to submit scholarly work each year to academic conferences.

Quality and Safety

During their first year of fellowship, each fellow will complete the , a nine-month longitudinal, mentored, quality-improvement training program. As part of this program, they will also receive training in Lean Six Sigma methodology and will be expected to develop and implement a quality-improvement project. 

Over the course of their fellowship, fellows will also complete coursework through the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, resulting in a Certificate in Quality and Safety. Additionally, as part of their systems and scholarship curricular time, fellows will attend monthly Department Quality and Safety Committee meetings and participate in serious safety event surveillance and reviews, root cause analyses, safety rounds and Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program team meetings. They will participate in resident Quality Improvement in Progress meetings and resident-led mortality and morbidity conferences. 

Medical Education

Pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) fellows will serve in roles that parallel the hospital medicine faculty’s involvement in the pediatric residency program. The fellows will supervise pediatric residents on the general pediatric wards, and will provide clinical and didactic teaching to the residents on topics related to inpatient evidence-based medicine and high-value care. The fellows will participate in resident conferences as hospital medicine experts, and will lecture on a general pediatrics topic during the residency noon conference at least once per year.

Fellows will also have the unique opportunity to serve in the role of teaching attending for medical students rotating on their pediatric clerkships. In this role, fellows will observe the medical students’ presentations on rounds, provide feedback on their notes and lead dedicated teaching sessions with them.

Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in formal coursework through the Johns Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education. Courses include:

Research Methods­­­

Fellows have the opportunity to take up to 16 credit units through the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report since 1994. Fellows will be specifically encouraged to take courses in grant writing, statistics and research methods. They will additionally receive training in these areas through the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Department of Pediatrics Fellows Core Curriculum and through the National Pediatric Hospital Medicine Research Webinar Series.

Fellows have access to:

  • 20 free hours of biostatistics, epidemiology and data management support through the BEAD Core
  • Clinical informationists who are available for consultation and collaboration on literature searches, systematic reviews and other research projects
  • An educational stipend for conferences, professional organization memberships and other educational materials

Conferences 

Fellows have the opportunity to participate in the following divisional and institutional conferences: 

  • PHM Division Journal Club (every two months) 
  • PHM Division Scholarly Work-in-Progress Meetings (quarterly) 
  • Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds (weekly) 
  • Department of Pediatrics Mortality and Morbidity Conference (monthly) 
  • Department of Pediatrics Case Conference (weekly) 
  • Pediatric Residency Program Quality Improvement In-Progress Meetings (quarterly) 
  • Pediatric Residency Program Morning Report (three times per week) 
  • Pediatric Residency Program Noon Conference (three to four times per week) 
  • Department of Pediatrics Fellows Core Curriculum (monthly)