Contacts
- Resident rotation director: Grace Chong, MD
Before Your Rotation
- Review the Goals and Objectives
- All oncoming team members must receive verbal patient signout from the outgoing team on their new patients; you should also review the off-service notes posted in Epic by the outgoing interns
- Consider reviewing lecture slides/articles from CAPS lecture series
Schedule
- Required four-week rotation during both PL-2 and PL-3 years
- Total of four days off over the course of the four-week rotation, which will occur on weekends when the resident is neither post call nor on call
- An optional senior elective can be requested as a categorical PGY-3 after completion of the required PICU months, or as a Med-Peds PGY-4 with approval by resdiency administration and PICU leadership
- An optional intern elective can be requested for early exposure to critical care medicine for those residents interested in a career related to critical care
- Each resident is expected to attend continuity clinic as scheduled
Daily schedule as follows:
- Arrive at 6:30AM to resident work room and receive fellow led sign out with entire PICU team
- PICU led didactic teaching occurs from 8AM-8:30AM every morning
- Rounds occur with two separate teams. Each team consists of a primary attending, a primary fellow, and two primary residents
- The Green team rounds on patients requiring post-operative cardiac and neurosurgical care and the general PICU patient population
- The Blue team rounds on patients with primary hematology/oncology diagnoses and the general PICU patient population
- Bedside teaching occurs daily
- Attend noon conference daily
- Sign out for the overnight team is run by the service fellow and begins daily at 4:30PM
Roles and Responsibilities
Welcome to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit! Resident training in our PICU encompasses an intensivist-directed, collaborative team model of patient-centered care that encourages increasing levels of responsibility for decision-making by the resident by providing the framework for understanding pathophysiology through the Pediatric Critical Care Core Curriculum. Residents will be exposed to a vast range of diagnoses in the PICU and will learn the fundamentals of critical care in managing patients in this setting. The PICU team provides multidisciplinary, patient-centered care for children with complex conditions including but not limited to:
- Life-Threatening infection and sepsis
- Multi-organ failure
- Trauma
- Post-surgical management
- Cancer and blood disease
- Solid organ/bone marrow/stem cell transplantation
- Neurologic deterioration
- Complex congenital heart disease
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Inpatient PICU PL-2 Roles & Responsibilities
- Inpatient PICU PL-3 Roles & Responsibilities
- Elective PICU PL-1 Roles & Responsibilities
- Elective PICU PL-3/4 Roles & Responsibilities
Locations
Links can be clicked for directions in Google Maps (opens in new window)
- Comer Children’s Hospital
- Team usually meets in the fishbowl in the middle of the PICU on Comer 4
Resources
Comer Children’s Hospital PICU webpage
