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BCRP Resident Runs to Aid Injured in Boston
Junior resident Natalie Stavas was running her fourth Boston Marathon, despite a broken left foot incurred during training, because she felt an obligation to her charity, Boston Medical Center Pediatrics. As a consequence she was running about 45 minutes slower than her personal best of 3:24 and was just completing mile 26 when the explosions near the finish line propelled her into action. Her heroic actions as one of the first responders are detailed in stories and videos here and here.
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BCRP Welcomes New Intern Class
The Boston Combined Residency Program welcomes 42 new pediatric and 4 med-peds members of what promises to be one of the best classes in its history. The new interns come from 20 states and 11 countries, went to 36 different colleges and 27 different medical schools. They majored in nearly two dozen diverse subjects including, in addition to a wide variety of biological sciences, history, government, sociology, environmental studies, gender studies, religion, nursing, Spanish, French, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, computer science, computational biology, art, music (French horn), astrophysics and physics. Eleven are minorities. Thirteen are PhDs or have PhD-like research experience, and four hold an MPH or other Masters degree. Eight of the new interns graduated from Harvard Medical School. Four attended Stanford, three went to Johns Hopkins, and two each came from Columbia, Pennsylvania, Yale, Baylor, Colorado, Jefferson, and Washington University in St Louis. Several schools, including Iowa, Indiana, Wake Forest, Kansas, and Cambridge University (UK) are new or relatively new to the BCRP. Read More...
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Boston Children's Hospital Top Ranked by
U.S. News & World Report in 2013-2014
Boston Children's Hospital ranked #1 in 7 of 10 evaluated specialties in the latest US News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals", which is more top rankings than any other pediatric hospital. Equally important, the hospital topped all other pediatric institutions in the key ranking-reputation among referring specialists. Boston Children's was #1 in six of the 10 specialties in this metric and in the top three for all evaluated specialties. Read more (here) and (here).
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Fetal Hemoglobin Switch
As a medical student, senior resident Vijay Sankaran discovered a gene, BCL11A, that controls the fetal to adult hemoglobin switch and offers new ways to potentially treat sickle cell disease and thalassemia. Vijay has continued to make major research breakthroughs during residency. Read more…
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Children's Resident Takes Lead in Developing New SCAMPS Cost-Cutting Program
Michael Farias, a 2013 graduate of the BCRP, recently published an important article in Health Affairs on an innovative new technique, called Standardized Clinical Assessment and Management Plans (SCAMPS), that improves on clinical practice guidelines by accommodating differences in treatment required for different patients. Since 2009, under under the direction of Michael and his collaborators more than 12,000 patients have been enrolled in forty-nine SCAMPs in nine states and Washington, D.C. with an 11-51 percent decrease in total medical expenses for six test conditions. The project was recently featured in the Boston Globe.
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Natalie Stavas and Dan Parry Fight Consumption of Sugar Sweetened Beverages
Natalie Stavas and Dan Parry are passionate about fighting childhood obesity. They are shown here at the Massachusetts State House, rallying pediatricians to support House Bill 1697, as part of their state-wide campaign to decrease the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages and reduce obesity. The bill would revoke the sales tax exception that currently exists for soda in Massachusetts. In addition, they led the distribution of "No Sugary Drinks" prescriptions pads to physicians across the state. Their efforts have received media coverage from the Boston Globe and the recognition of many policymakers in the Commonwealth.
To read more click here.
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Alexandra Vinograd's Experience at Butaro
Alexandra is a 2011 Med-Peds graduate who is currently working at the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda with Paul Farmer`s program, Partners in Health. Her pediatric experiences there are detailed in this inspiring and emotionally affecting video produced by Time Magazine.
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Residents as Innovators
Two residents, Eli Sprecher and Natalie Stavas, have created a smartphone application that makes it easy for providers, at the point of care, to screen patients for their psychosocial needs, find local resources, and reliably send those resources to their patients or their families via text message or e-mail. Read more about this and other resident innovation initiatives…
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Residents Present Research at Pediatric Academic Societies
Nineteen current and recent BCRP houseofficers submitted 21 abstracts of their research to the joint spring meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies and Asian Society of Pediatric Research in Boston, MA, April 28 to May 1. Three residents won resident research awards: Errol Fields, Scott Hadland and Lakshmi Ganapathi.
The abstracts included (residents names in boldface): Read more...
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My First Day: New Residents Share Their Experiences
Decades pass, skill and confidence are cultivated, but every doctor remembers that first shift as a new resident. For Carmen Monthe-Dreze, MD, her initial shifts were rife with exhilaration - balanced with a healthy dose of fear.
Read More...
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Julie Herlihy and Natasha Archer's Global Health Efforts
BCRP residents Julie Herlihy and Natasha Archer have long had strong interests in the health care of vulnerable populations in the developing world. Julie has focused particularly on global health in sub-Saharan Africa, whereas Natasha Has made major contributions in Haiti. Their recent efforts are contributing to the developing academic discipline of pediatric global health within the BCRP.
Read more about Julie here and Natasha here...
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Meghan Weir Describes Her Residency Experiences
Recent BCRP graduate, Meghan Weir, has published a book on her experiences during her residency in the BCRP. The most memorable parts of her training are "the complicated kids and families, the hope she inspires in them, and the hope they give her in turn". The book is described as an "insider's account with better writing and more soul than most medical dramas". Meghan also writes the occasional article for the Boston Globe.
Read more about Meghan here...
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Download a pdf (8 MB) document containing all the material on this website.
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What's Special About the BCRP
Top 12 List
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Interns Set Record for Most Parties
BCRP residents party as hard as they work, as shown in the attached photo gallery, which acknowledges several recent classes. The 2011-12 intern class got together for a party or other activity almost every week through- out the past year, the most of any class in memory.
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Boston Children's Hospital Around the World
International Health efforts of Children's faculty are detailed here.
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Hospital Expansion
Children's recently broke ground on a new small clinical building attached to the hospital on the Binney Street side.
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Children's Hospital Boston Virtual Tour
See more of our hospital...
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Who's New
Friedhelm Hildebrandt, MD
Dr Friedhelm Hildebrandt, a distinguished clinician and HHMI Investigator, has recently joined the Boston Children's Hospital staff as the new Chief of Nephrology Read more...
Dan Schumacher, MD, MEd
Dan Schumacher joins the BCRP as an Associate Program Director and a member of the emergency medicine staff at Boston Medical Center. Read more...
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Ted Sectish
Talks with The Daily Beast about part-time residencies and the options for flexibility in training in the BCRP.
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Stem Cell Program
Children's Hospital Boston has the world's leading research in stem cell biology, which is detailed in a beautiful new website.
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Gene Therapy
A team of Children's hematologists and immunologists have successfully treated a boy with X-linked SCID using a new gene therapy technique.
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Youth Advocacy
Boston Medical Center has achieved national leadership with programs like Reach Out and Read, Child Witness to Violence, the Boston Center for Refuge Health and Human Rights, and the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children.
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Meghan Weir
Describes aspects of life as an intern In Her Own Words.
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Immune Disease Institute Joins Children's
The IDI's outstanding scientists have joined Children's and will form a new Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine.
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