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| Dr. Vinci's waffle rounds on the BMC wards |
The General Pediatrics teams at Children's Hospital Boston care for patients with a wide variety of general pediatric problems as well as a varying number of subspecialty patients from: adolescent medicine, allergy/immunology, endocrinology, hematology, infectious diseases, metabolism, nephrology, pulmonology, rheumatology and toxicology. The Short Stay Unit cares for patients with acute, common and less complex pediatric illnesses that generally require only a brief hospitalization.
The inpatient ward at Boston Medical Center is a 36-bed unit. The pediatric ward team cares for general pediatrics patients and patients from subspecialty services, including endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, infectious diseases, neurology, and pulmonology.p>
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Every intern has at least three months of general inpatient experience. 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. During the junior and senior years, residents assume a supervisory role in the care of general pediatrics patients. The supervising residents are the team leaders, and also provide much of the formal teaching to the interns and medical students during rounds.
