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Residency Program Message from Pediatric Residency Education Coordinator
To respond to this challenge, the UAMS Department of Pediatrics employed a full-time master’s-prepared educator. My responsibility as the Pediatric Residency Education Coordinator is to plan, develop, and implement new educational and evaluation programs in order to comply with training program requirements set forth by the ACGME and the Pediatric RRC. This includes curriculum planning and assessment; development selection, and maintenance of educational materials; and educational resource for pediatric residents and faculty. To accomplish these tasks I work with the Office of Educational Development and the Pediatric Residency Education Committee to review rotational goals and objectives, coordinate educational lectures, and develop assessment tools to document learning outcomes. I also coordinate the education aspects of six accredited fellowship programs that are sponsored by the core residency program. Integrating educational terminology and technology into the medical environment is challenging at times. But my job is also rewarding in that I enjoy being able to watch scared young medical school graduates grow into competent professionals in such a short length of time! Patricia Jones Edstrom, M.Ed. Education, Teaching Rounds and Conferences During your resident training at UAMS, educational experiences are provided to you in many different forums: direct patient care with one-on-one faculty supervision, teaching rounds, conferences, scientific presentations and personal study. On the inpatient service, each patient is assigned to a pediatric ward team consisting of a faculty attending, one upper level resident, two or more interns and medical students. In addition to daily rounds, the chief residents and other faculty lead a daily morning report where cases are presented and discussed.
Pediatric Grand Rounds -- an important learning experience -- is held once a week. Grand Rounds and additional selected conferences are broadcast over the Medical Education Network, a cable telecommunications system. Most are recorded and archived on the Medical Education Network for future or repeated viewing. During your third year, you will have the opportunity to present a topic relating to your clinical research or one that is of scholarly interest to you during Grand Rounds or a regional conference. Postgraduate conferences are offered by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital, Department of Continuing Medical Education. Guest lecturers of national renown are frequently invited to address groups at our campus. UAMS operates a satellite library on the Arkansas Children's Hospital campus that is staffed by a full-time librarian and equipped with the latest computerized search programs. It is accessible 24 hours a day, further enhancing your opportunities for study and education. The UAMS Library and Learning Resource Center will be available to you as well.
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Little Rock, AR 72202
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With
the goal of maintaining quality patient care while practicing cost-effective
health care, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME),
the Residency Review Committees (RRC), and the American Association of
Medical Colleges (AAMC) established a framework of general competencies for
residency training programs to measure knowledge, skills, and attitudes
acquired by residents during their training program. To achieve these goals,
residency programs must identify opportunities to teach, assess, evaluate,
and improve residency education experiences in order for trainees to grow. 
To present residents with a comprehensive core of pediatric knowledge over
the three years, the Department of Pediatrics has established an ongoing
curriculum lecture series. Complicated case conferences and other general and
specialty lectures are presented in addition to the core curriculum lectures.
Lunch is provided at the majority of these conferences.