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Pediatrics Education
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37th Annual Graduate Course in Pediatrics
About Pediatrics Education
IUSM has the second largest number of medical students in the country - currently 300 per class with plans to go to 360 over the next 4 years. The pediatric medical student education program is highly successful. The students score well above the national average on standardized tests. The clerkship has excellent, stable leadership. A high percent of students enter pediatrics or a combined pediatric residency program.
There are 150 residents in Department of Pediatrics residency programs; half of these are straight pediatric residents and half are combined pediatric residents (med/peds, peds/psych/child psych, and EM/ pediatrics). The med/peds residency is the largest in the country and considered by many to be the best. As with the student education program, there is excellent leadership and stability in the residency programs There are currently 35 subspecialty fellows in 13 fellowship programs.
The large clinical inpatient and outpatient subspecialty programs provide excellent venues for our educational programs. The IUSM-Primary Care organization has 30 clinics throughout the metropolitan area. These sites plus the use of private pediatric offices enable the educational program to have adequate venues for all students and residents for primary care outpatient experiences, including residency continuity clinics.
There are several special programs associated with the residency training program. Ours was one of ten programs to receive a $2.5 million Dyson Community Pediatric Training Initiative Grant to provide experiences and education to residents in community settings. This is a very popular program for resident applicants. A $2.5 million endowment was created to sustain the infrastructure of the program beyond the funding period from the Dyson Foundation. Another extremely popular component of the residency program is the IUSM Kenya Program at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. Numerous students, residents, fellows and faculty have chosen to serve elective rotations in Kenya.
The department is committed to increase the number of subspecialty fellowship programs and the number of fellows, and to develop innovative programs to recruit and produce more physician scientists through the fellowship programs. Recently, the Morris Green Physician Scientist Scholar Program was funded with a $2.5 million endowment. The purpose of this program is to prepare pediatric residents and fellows for a career in academic pediatrics.
There is an endowed chair for the pediatric residency director and a $9 million endowment for the pediatric education program. There is also a successful high school student science education program in the Wells Center for Pediatric Research with a $1 million endowment to cover the annual cost of this program.
