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| Dr. Vinci's waffle rounds on the BMC wards |
Residents rotating on the General Pediatrics teams at Children's Hospital Boston care for patients with a wide variety of general pediatric problems. In addition, they cover patients on various subspecialty services, including adolescent medicine, allergy/immunology, the coordinated care service for medically complex children, endocrinology, hematology, infectious disease, metabolism, nephrology, pulmonology, rheumatology and toxicology. Patients on the Short Stay Unit have acute, common and less complex pediatric illnesses that generally require only a brief hospitalization.
The inpatient ward at Boston Medical Center is a 34-bed unit. The pediatric ward team cares for general pediatrics patients, as well as patients from subspecialty services, including endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, infectious diseases, neurology, and pulmonology.
Each inpatient team is organized so that residents have contact with academic general pediatricians and subspecialists who serve as clinical teachers at both Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center. The supervising residents are the team leaders, and also provide much of the formal teaching to the interns and medical students during rounds.
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Every resident has at least three months of general inpatient experience as an intern. Inpatient teams at Children's Hospital are unit-based, allowing closer relationship with nurses, more contact with families, and less time spent commuting between floors. The 9 East and 7 West teams consist of 4 interns and 1 senior resident, and care for a mix of general pediatric and subspecialty patients. The newly created 6 East team consists of a junior resident and an intern. They care for a small group of primarily hematology, rheumatology and general pediatrics patients on that unit. Interns also rotate through the Children's Hospital Boston Short Stay Unit and the inpatient ward at Boston Medical Center.
