Educational and Professional Opportunities

Committees and Councils

• Nationwide Children's Hospital Quality Improvement Committee
• CAC Case Review Meetings
• Franklin County Child Fatality Review
• SIDS Committee
• Ohio AAP Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect

Nationwide Children’s Hospital Conferences

• Fellowship Core Competency Series
• Fellows Translational Research Series
• Pediatric Grand Rounds
• Pediatric Residency Morbidity and Mortality Conference
• Trauma Grand Rounds

Specific Curriculum Conferences

• Weekly Inpatient Consult Review/Didactic Session:
  • Held weekly, typically on Thursdays
  • One session per month is assigned as the Division Journal Club (see below)
  • Didactic sessions by faculty
  • Interesting cases, typically led by the fellows
• Weekly ECHO Core Curriculum Didactic Conference (organized by Atlanta via web/teleconference, multiple participating programs):
  • Fridays from 1 to 2 p.m.
  • Revolving two-year curriculum covering key topics in Child Abuse Pediatrics
• Division Journal Club
  • Occurs once monthly
  • Each Journal Club session has a fellow assigned as the leader with a faculty mentor
  • The assigned fellow is responsible for the selection of the articles and is expected to lead Journal Club

Attendance at Scientific Meetings and Reimbursements

• Fellows are encouraged and supported to attend one meeting per year, approved by the program director (as funding is available). Some examples include:
  • Ray Helfer Society Annual Meeting
  • Pediatric Academic Societies Meetings (AAP, APA, SPR)
  • San Diego Conference on Child Maltreatment
  • National Shaken Baby Syndrome Conference
• Discretion to attend an additional meeting in the same academic year is dependent upon conference funds available within the Division of Child and Family Advocacy/Department of Pediatrics and merit i.e. scholarly work accepted for presentation at a national meeting.