Every Wednesday from 12-1, we come together for weekly Med-Peds Conference. They range from clinical lectures, social determinants of health discussions, journal clubs, board review, town halls, senior talks, to program updates.
Some of the recent conferences were on topics including Communicating with Teens, Differences between Pediatric & Adult Treatment Strategies for AML, Topics in Primary Care, Healthcare Disparities in Chronic Kidney Disease and Transplantation, and Cost Conscious Care.
During your PGY-2 year, you lead one journal club allowing you to practice critically appraising primary literature. Some of our residents use this as an opportunity to battle out evidence behind heavily debated topics (such as IV fluids and contrast induced nephropathy).
Monthly sessions (scheduled for you and protected) while on internal medicine as a PGY-1 to practice POCUS skills on live models. These include dedicated sessions on cardiovascular, pulmonology, abdominal, musculoskeletal, and vascular systems.
Areas of future expansion currently being worked on include incorporation of volunteer patients that have specific pathology (such as heart failure, cirrhosis, effusions, etc.)
The IU Med-Peds Program is part of a grant which provides personal Butterfly probes to a cohort of residents to become more comfortable with daily POCUS skills.
Each inpatient ward team also has a Butterfly probe (solely for that team's use) to incorporate POCUS into the physical exam.
Multiple opportunities exist to practice your procedural based skills. On inpatient rotations (like critical care and general medicine) there are opportunities for central lines, paracenteses, thoracenteses, lumbar punctures, intubations, NG placement, and abscess drainage. On the ambulatory side, there are opportunities for delivering immunizations, incisions & drainage, pap smears, joint injections, and Nexplanon training.
The Clinician-Educator Training Pathway is a more formal pathway for those whom medical education will be a cornerstone of their careers. We recognize that the medical education career pathway is a deliberate choice that requires a particular set of skills!
This is a two year program that is integrated into existing training programs. You apply after your first year of residency. During the first year you complete a dedicated series related to MedEd and devise your curricula/program. During the second year you both implement and evaluate the curricula created during the first year.
You will be taught about tenure, teaching clinical reasoning, adult learning theory, diversity and inclusion in medical education, setting expectations in the clinical learning environment, feedback, as well as precepting.