*(Hematology, Endocrine, Cardiology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, SCAN/palliative care)

Individualized curriculum

Residents use the individualized curriculum (IC) rotations throughout the three years to gain additional experience in local clinical electives, international medicine rotations, or to advance quality improvement, advocacy, or research projects.

Clinical sites

Inpatient and outpatient experiences for the Pediatric Residency Program include: 

• Inpatient and outpatient care at Doernbecher Children's Hospital (DCH)
• Inpatient and outpatient care at Legacy Randall Children's Hospital (RCH)
• Ambulatory care at Kaiser Permanente
• Adolescent health at school-based health centers
• Outpatient care at
  • Hillsboro Pediatrics, Orenco Station
  • Kaiser, Tualatin
  • OHSU Bethany Village Pediatrics Clinic 
  • Olson Pediatrics, Lake Oswego
  • Pacific Pediatrics/Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic

Academic Enrichment

Our Academic Enrichment conference offers residents protected time away from clinical duties to focus on essential pediatric topics. Sessions occur every other week for each resident, alternating weekly between interns and PGY-2/PGY-3 residents. Faculty deliver a core curriculum aligned with American Board of Pediatrics content specifications, using adult learning principles and incorporating hands-on, interactive sessions to enhance engagement and retention.

Morning Report

The goal of Morning Report is to improve resident communication and clinical decision-making skills in a comfortable learning environment. Under the direction of the chief residents and in the presence of faculty, residents present timely medical cases that explore various aspects of patient care objectives, including delineation of differential diagnoses, the medical work-up, and/or management care plans. The conference also incorporates interactive tutorials from allied services of the Department of Pediatrics such as radiology and dermatology. Morning report is a half-hour conference held four days per week.

Noon Conference

Noon conferences occur approximately 1-2 times per week and address longitudinal content over a three year period. Curricula include addressing health and societal inequities, legislative advocacy, global health, quality improvement initiatives and class meetings.

Pediatric Grand Rounds

Pediatric faculty, community pediatricians, residents, and students attend this weekly session. Various pediatric topics, including research advances, translational medicine, and challenging clinical cases are presented, usually in a lecture format. Guest presentations are common, and there are several endowed lectureships throughout the year that attract acclaimed physician-scientists.

Pediatric Chair's Friday Forum

The Pediatric Chair's Friday Forum is a weekly interactive conference held October-June facilitated by faculty and residents for all department members. Friday Forum is structured around six rotating themes: clinical reasoning, evidence-based medicine, morbidity and mortality, health equity rounds, research in progress, and ethics. Its overall objectives are to instill lifelong-learning practices for participants and to further develop critical-thinking skills essential to the practice of medicine and translational science. Residents often have opportunities to present at the Friday Forum.

Pediatric-Emergency Medicine M&M

A monthly conference is held jointly with the Department of Emergency Medicine to discuss pediatric patients whose initial presentation is to the emergency department. Residents and faculty from both departments attend this conference. Patients are presented by the pediatric and emergency medicine residents. The case format allows for discussion of the differential diagnosis and treatment plan, facilitating communication between the two departments.

To supplement residents' clinical learning, we have a number of unique additional curricula. With these experiences, residents learn more than just the day-to-day of being a resident; they learn about the "real world" and develop skills that will help prepare them for the next stage of their career and life.

Anti-Discrimination and Health Equity Curriculum

Our program is committed to cultivating an equitable, inclusive, and diverse environment and to addressing inequities for our patients and families. This longitudinal curriculum includes unconscious bias training, active bystander skill development, health equity rounds, and conferences that address healthcare disparities and the role of structural racism and discrimination in healthcare.

Becoming an effective senior resident curriculum

During one intern Academic Enrichment in the spring, we focus on enhancing resident teaching and supervisory skills including workshops on subjects like giving feedback, assessing medical students, and facilitating bedside rounds.

Resilience and well-being

A variety of conferences and activities create space for trainees to build community, cultivate communication skills, and debrief difficult events.  Intern collaborative experience is a weekly curriculum led by the chief residents and spans the first 10 weeks of the intern year. The goal is to facilitate interns building an essential skill set to include clear verbal and written communication, contingency planning, teaching skills, providing feedback, and working within teams. The sessions are interactive and hands-on, rather than lecture based, drawing from the principles of experiential education, pairing small-group activities with facilitator-guided debriefing and building on the group's development of trust over time.  Facilitator-guided debriefing continues throughout residency within individual classes, and during our more emotionally and time intensive rotations, such as the intensive care units. This curriculum supplements the OHSU Resident and Faculty Wellness Program that provides individual coaching and counseling as well as educational workshops and wellness resources.

Quality improvement curriculum

This monthly curriculum is led by departmental quality leaders. Residents experience real-time learning about quality improvement science while working on a patient care improvement project selected by the residents.

Mock code curriculum

Serious life-threatening events occur infrequently in inpatient pediatrics. Furthermore, biennial NRP and PALS certification are insufficient to maintain critical clinical and team management skills. Through a series of “boot camps” and mock codes, residents practice managing medical emergencies and utilizing crew resource management skills in order to be well prepared when true emergencies occur.

Global health

Working alongside the OHSU Global Health Center, we have developed a longitudinal global health curriculum that draws upon the expertise of faculty at OHSU and other national and international leaders in the field. The curriculum covers both core global health subjects and enrichment curriculum. Residents have the opportunity to participate in overseas electives tailored to their career interests.