Pediatric Education and Conferences
During your residency, you will have many opportunities for hands-on education, conferences and events to further your training and deepen your knowledge base.
The THMEP Pediatric Residency offers a dynamic and comprehensive educational experience designed to elevate our trainees’ clinical expertise and expand their knowledge base. Residents participate in numerous educational opportunities, including weekly didactics, monthly hands-on simulation training, and community outreach, as well as local and national conferences.
Upon completion of the program, graduates are well prepared to enter independent pediatric practice or pursue subspecialty training through competitive fellowship programs.
Educational Experiences
Morning Report
Morning Report takes place every Friday morning, in person and virtually to make sure our faculty and residents can participate regardless of rotation/location. With the support of a senior, our interns present cases from their rotations in morning report style that they found educational in order to spread the learning and gain further insight from our faculty.
Pediatric Teaching Day
Teaching day is every Wednesday from 3pm-6pm. It is a time for the residents to be together, share what they are seeing clinically and learn together. It includes formal teaching from our faculty, Journal Club, SIM lab, board review and occasional book club and wellness activities.
Pre-Continuity Clinic Teaching
Each resident has continuity clinic on Tuesday or Thursday. Continuity clinic runs from 2pm-6pm and each clinic includes residents from each PGY year. Residents arrive at continuity clinic at 1pm to have an hour of learning prior to starting their clinic. The educational hour follows the Yale Continuity Clinic Curriculum with reading to discuss among your fellow residents each week.
Community Outreach
Residents have the opportunity to be field side at high school football games, treating acute injuries with our Sports Medicine physicians. We encourage our residents to be actively involved in our community. We support volunteer opportunities at Safe kids spookfest and Safe kids Saturday as well as other TMC community activities.
TCPS Symposium
All residents are excused from clinical duty to attend the Tucson Community Pediatric Subspecialists Symposium. The symposium provides two days of duty free learning with an added bonus of bonding time with your fellow residents.
Simulation Lab
We are grateful to the Tucson Centurions for their recent generous donation to our SIM lab, providing us with 5 high fidelity mannequins as well as a plethora of practice equipment. The last Wednesday Teaching Day of every month we meet in the SIM lab to run SIM cases. Cases are organized by our faculty, SIM lab director and/or the residents to allow residents to both participate in and run SIM lab.
