NOON CONFERENCE

Noon conference takes place each Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the Bradley Lecture Center. Residents are provided with a free, hot meal daily during these lectures and all residents’ pagers are held and answered by the chief residents so that the residents will be able to spend the hour focused on the lecture. Noon conferences are done by faculty and staff. The material covered is based on an 18 month curriculum created by the curriculum committee that covers board specs from each subspecialty.  Noon conferences are available online for residents. 

In July of each year, there is a special series presented that covers basic patient care and emergency situations by subspecialty to provide a foundation of knowledge for residents and interns. Once a month Senior Talks also take place during the noon conference hour. Two of the senior residents (third year categorical pediatrics and fourth year med/peds residents) present a 30 minute evidence based medicine talk on a topic of their choice. Evaluations are completed by faculty, residents, and medical students and written feedback is given to the resident. One unique feature of noon conference is the frequent use of TouchPoint. This is an audience response system that allows lecturers to have the residents answer questions (frequently PREP questions) and participate in patient scenarios.

MORNING REPORT

Morning report takes place every morning at 7:55 in the Bradley Lecture Center. Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday the General Inpatient Service (GIPS) resident on call presents a case about a patient on their team, and the chief residents serve as a facilitator.

The PICU team presents on Tuesdays with Dr. Nancy Tofil serving as facilitator. On Fridays the eight subspecialty teams present on a rotating basis. The subspecialties include Allergy/Immunology/Rheumatology, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Disease, Neurology, and Pulmonary. Their presentations are subspecialty specific and often there are attending from that subspecialty present to aid in discussion.

Ethics Morning Report occurs on the first Friday of each month. A patient case with an interesting ethical dilemma is presented by a resident and Dr. Leon Dure serves as the facilitator. Morning report is interactive with resident and attending participation in discussing the history, physical exam, differential diagnosis, and management of the case. Many times there is a radiologist present to review films and specialists are always willing to provide additional education about disease specific processes.

Outpatient Morning Report is every Wednesday morning at 8:30am and residents on outpatient rotations go there after the 8am morning report to discuss outpatient cases specifically. Community pediatricians and faculty are invited, but this is specifically a resident and intern led activity.