CONFERENCES
Our conferences are designed to be innovative, dynamic, and consistent, covering topics that will prepare our residency program's graduates for successful completion of the American Board of Pediatrics certification exam and to feel confident managing a wide range of pediatric illnesses in their future practice. We continually evaluate and improve our existent conference series utilizing resident and faculty input to ensure an optimal learning environment and a curriculum that emphasizes current evidence-based guidelines and reflecting the standard of care for pediatric patients.
Morning Conferences: A time-honored tradition in most residency programs is Morning Report. At UK residents attend Morning Report on Tuesday and Friday mornings. Presentations are prepared by residents with an emphasis on disease presentation, differential diagnosis development and a limited number of learning points concerning pathophysiology and disease management. Faculty in both general pediatrics and subspecialties attend Morning Report presentations in addition to students and residents. We strive for an atmosphere of collegiality and camaraderie shared among all attendees to ensure an open and safe learning environment.
Wednesdays Morning Report is arranged by the Chief Resident and focus on procedural test interpretations, mock code experiences and specialty presentations from pediatric radiology and other pediatric subspecialties discussing a variety of topics, such as EKG interpretation, sedation and ventilator management.
The Department of Pediatrics holds a weekly Grand Rounds series on Thursday mornings. Topics range from clinical case presentation, review of recent medial developments, research presentations and visiting speakers. Morbidity and Mortality Conference occurs during Grand Rounds on a quarterly basis.
Finally, Community-Wide Morning Report occurs twice yearly and gives faculty and residents the opportunity to interact with the private-practice pediatricians in the Lexington are.
Noon Conference: Noon Conference presentations are highly organized and focus on core learning objectives identified by the American Board of Pediatrics and topics relevant to success in a resident's future career. Conference are given by all subspecialties and general pediatrics faculty with a regularly occurring time slot for each division in the department. Each division submits a rotating three year curriculum approved by the office of medical education. Special conference series are also held, covering topics ranging from advocacy, research methods and biostatistics, international health, residents as teachers and business of medicine topics. We also hold a monthly board review lecture using a non-intimidating and interactive format utilizing an audience response system with core content obtain from the American Academy of Pediatrics PREP curriculum.
Journal Club and Evidence-Based Medicine Conference: Journal Club is a time when residents get together at an off-campus location--typically someone's home--to discuss two or three journal articles while socializing, eating and having fun. Residents will be assigned to present one journal article with the assistance of an attending preceptor during residency.
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Morning Reports are presentations in which the residents come up with their own clinical question and search the literature to see what evidence is published regarding their question and present their findings during a morning report conference to medical students, residents and attendings. EBM morning reports are assigned once during residency.
FACULTY
Faculty involvement in resident education is one of the primary assets of the pediatrics program at UK. Residents interact directly with faculty members in all rotations and our faculty are accessible and readily available for consultation for education and patient care. In addition to providing clinical and bedside teaching, our faculty are also involved in every aspect of the program.
 
CONTINUITY CLINIC
Continuity Clinic is one of the strengths of the UK program. All pediatric residency programs have required continuity clinics, but style and setup vary from program to program. One afternoon per week, the resident is excused from regular duties to attend continuity clinic. The residents are divided into two groups. Half go to the Family Care Center, an off-site clinic that reaches out to the community by providing day-care, counseling, medical care, and education all in one location. The other half staff an on-site clinic at UK.
An intern’s patient population begins as the inherited patients from a graduating resident. As the resident meets various families without primary care doctors through the newborn nursery, wards, or even the emergency department, the patients form a bond with the resident. The intern can invite these families to join the continuity clinic, and, in general, these patients will see the same intern for all well-child checks (though unscheduled sick visits may fall to a different continuity clinic or general pediatrics). These families generally welcome the short wait times, wonderful nursing staff, and consistency of the continuity clinic. The intern enjoys the helpful parents and opportunities to request patients of his or her interest. There tends to be a good balance between complicated chronically ill patients and healthy well-child checks.
On the same day of the week for the next three years the same resident and same attending continue with these families. This consistency is a welcome relief during the ever-changing demands of residency. It also allows for strong bonds to form between parents, residents, and attendings. It is these friendships that make UK’s Continuity Clinic such an enjoyable and educational time. | 
