First year residents focus on building foundational pediatric medical knowledge and patient care skills. As interns, they are supervised by senior residents, fellows and faculty. They become acquainted with the medical health care system within Albany Medical Center and the surrounding community.
Rotations | 13 4-Week Blocks |
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Ward | 3-4 |
Ward Night Team | 1 |
NICU | 2 |
ED | 1-2 |
Ambulatory/Newborn | 2 |
Development & Behavioral | 0-1 |
Community Health/Acute Care | 1-2 |
Individualized | 0-1 |
Elective | 1-2 |
4 Weeks Vacation | 1 |
STAR Block | 1 |
Second year residents graduate into more autonomous roles while continuing to build their medical knowledge and patient care skills. They develop their leadership skills and enjoy numerous opportunities for teaching residents and medical students. Significantly, second year residents begin utilizing their 6 individualized block rotations as outlined by the ACGME. These rotations allow a resident to tailor their educational experience to meet their own career goals.
Rotations | 13 4-Week Blocks |
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Ward | 1-2 |
NICU Night Team | 0-0.5 |
NICU | 0-1 |
PICU | 1-2 |
ED | 1-2 |
Ambulatory | 1 |
Adolescent | 0-1 |
Individualized | 2-5 |
Ward Night Team | 0-1 |
4 Weeks Vacation | 1 |
Third year residents hone their teaching and supervisory skills as they take on more responsibility for decision making and leading their patient care teams. We emphasize independent and critical thinking skills as they approach graduation.
Rotations | 13 4-Week Blocks |
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Ward | 1-2 |
Ward Night Team | 0-1 |
NICU | 0-1 |
NICU Night Team | 0-0.5 |
PICU | 0-1 |
Ambulatory | 1 |
Individualized | 2-4 |
Adolescent | 0-1 |
Elective | 5 |
4 Weeks Vacation | 1 |
Our program will help you develop elective experiences above and beyond the required experiences that best prepare you for your career goals.
Anesthesiology | Adolescent II | Bioethics |
Cardiology I & II | Caregiver Elective | Chief Elective |
Circumcisions | Community II | Dermatology |
Development and Behavior II | Endocrinology | Pediatric Emergency Medicine III |
ENT | General Peds- Academic | General Peds- Private |
Gastroenterology | Genetics/Metabolism | Hematology/Oncology |
Hematopathology | Hospitalist Elective I & II | Infectious Disease |
Lactation Medicine | Nephrology | Neurology |
NICU Elective | NICU Transport Elective | Nutrition |
Ophthalmology | Orthopedics | Palliative Care |
Surgery | PICU Elective | PICU Transport Elective |
Psychiatry | Pulmonology | Radiology |
Research Elective | Rheumatology | Sedations |
Sports Medicine | Ultrasound Elective | Urology |
Example Conference Schedule
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Morning Conference 8:00 am | Grand Rounds 8:00 am | Morning Report 8:30 am | Morning Report 8:30 am | Case Management 8:00 am |
Noon Conference 12:00 pm | Noon Conference 12:00 pm | Noon Conference 12:00 pm |
ILPs are tailored to the adult learner and encourage residents to actively design and execute their own longitudinal road map of their studies. The program schedules biannual “ILP Round-Ups” in which residents meet with their ILP advisor for 5-15 minutes to reflect on their success from the past six months and plan for the next six months. Residents are also expected to meet with the ILP coaches between these scheduled meetings as needed to optimize their study efforts throughout residency.
YALE TBL occurs once a block and is lead by a PGY-3 and PGY-2 resident with our Gen-Peds faculty functioning as discussion moderators. Residents receive readings prior to these scheduled conferences and then work in small groups to answer questions and discuss clinical points. The faculty draw on their years of practice and expertise to provide clinical pearls and nuanced answers and approaches to challenging clinical scenarios.
All PGY1s complete Institute for Healthcare Improvement modules during their acute care rotation and take part in our flipped-classroom Team Based Learning QI experience during their PedSTAR block. All residents then commit to projects (often as multi-year teams). The faculty and resident teams then present their data and their progress at quarterly “Quality Management” conferences.
Our Pediatric Scholarly Track for Advocacy and Research (PedSTAR) is a four-week experience during which all interns are excused from clinical duties. Interns receive one week of intensive advocacy training drawing on the expertise of several pediatric faculty while leveraging advocacy opportunities that exist in the state capital. Interns also receive one week of hands-on instruction in developing clinical research skills. This week is comprised of multiple mini didactic sessions including but not limited to how to write an IRB proposal, grant proposals, consents, and data analytics. The third week of PedSTAR is then a week of dedicated training in Quality Improvement, leadership and teaching skills, and simulation. The block concludes with each resident committing to designing either a research or advocacy project to complete in the following 2 years of their training and then drafting an IRB proposal or a roadmap for their advocacy project. Each resident will present their project at our annual internal residency research day, a national or regional conference, and during our annual PedSTAR Grand Rounds in the spring of their third year.
Meghan Aabo, DO
Tricia Hopkins, MD
Research
Amy Mitchel, PharmD
Meredith Monaco- Brown, MD
Quality Improvement
Ronald Dick, MD
Simulation Workshops
Sarah Klaiber, DO
Lauren Weintraub, MD
‣Shah, Rushabh ‣Bhalodkar, Sonali ‣Sefick, Sam | Vanc+Zosyn in AKI | Presented at PAS 2019 |
Goodman, Alyssa | Time to treatment for febrile neutropenia in the ED | Presented at ASPHO |
Goodman, Alyssa | PTSD effects of chemotherapy on children and parents | Presented at ASPHO |
‣Philbin, Molly ‣Sinha, Tiya | DKA and cerebral edema: utility of head CT (with Tiya) | Poster Accepted for AAP Fall 2019 |
Sinha, Sanghamitra | Agammaglobulinemia | Written, submitted AAAAI, accepted |
‣Walker, Rusty ‣Shanley, Kathleen ‣Tayler, Brittany | Relabeling MDIs for improved asthma control in the community | Met with CDPHP and they have facilitated numerous regional pharmacies to get on board… has recruited K Shans and B. Tayler |
Wertalik, Larissa | Time to antibiotics with febrile sickle cell patients | Presented at ASPHO, Spring 2019 |
Wertalik, Larissa | Giving Bad News follow up | Presented at ASPHO, Spring 2019 |
‣Quinones, Josh ‣Gupta, Sanjeev | Troponin elevation in Neonates with HIE | Presented at PAS 2018 |
Sandoval, Alexis | Onset of Lactation in mothers with preterm | Presented at AAP 2018 |
Sandoval, Alexis | Onset of Lactation in Mothers with Chorio and/or steroids | Presented at PAS 2019 |
Sandoval, Alexis | Tetralogy of Fallot Repair in a 9 year old with post op complications | Poster accepted for Anesthesia conference |
Shah, Rushabh | NEC scoring system | Presented to PAS, May 2017 |
Testo, Natalia | Xolair in idiopathic urticaria | Presented at AAAAI 2018 |
Testo, Natalia | Utility of Brain MRI in first time seizures | Presented at PAS 2019 and AMC Res Research Day |
Halligan, Katharine | Factor 9 Inhibitor Project | Presented Prelim at Hemophilia society Regional meeting 2016 |
Halligan, Katharine | Giving Bad News Resident Sim Modules | Presented at ASPHO |
Halligan, Katharine | Neuro-Onc Poster | Presented at Society of Pediatric Neuro Oncology |
Halligan, Katharine | Deferasirox and Liver Toxicity | Accepted Journal of Pediatric Heme-Onc PMID:28221265 |
Halligan, Katharine | Giving Bad News Modules | Presented abstract at ASPHO |
Halligan, Katharine | Use of Eculizumab in Autoimmune Hemolytic anemia | Presented at ASPHO 2018 |
Halligan, Katharine | Brain Tumors and Genetic Markers in Lieu of Histopathology | Accepted to Neuro-Oncology, Volume 20, Issue suppl_2, 22 June 2018 |
Koblick, Sarah | Patient presenting with ITP in setting of IBD | Presented to North East Hematology Society |
Rosloff, Daniel | Kostmann Syndrome | Published & Presented to AAAAI 2017 |
Rosloff, Daniel | FPIES incidence | Published J All Clin Imm 2017 |
Wilcox, Hayley | Post-op complications after arterial switch | Presented at NeoHeart |
Gallup, Jacqueline | Calculator to Predict BPD validation | Presented at PAS 2018 |
Gupta, Sanjeev | Sternotomy Pain Control | Presented at CHOP |
Gupta, Sanjeev | NeoReviews Meconium Orchiitis | Presented at NCE |
Babson, Christie | Fluoride work | Presented at NYS conference |
Iyengar, Sandhyaa | Reading to children in the NICU | Postered, published |
Iyengar, Sandhyaa | Mindfulness/meditation in parents of children with autism | Published, TED Talk, National Librarian Foundation Presentation |
Every resident in our Pediatrics residency program participates in and presents data on a quality improvement project. We have always emphasized hands-on Quality Improvement experiences for our trainees. Generous philanthropy from the Capital Region community supports our Quality Improvement & Patient Safety (QIPS) Resident training program. With the Class of 2023, we now offer a special opportunity for one resident per class to develop their QIPS skills even further. Those interested in this specialized QIPS training apply for the position during their first year and use individualized elective blocks to participate in the myriad QIPS opportunities both nationally and within Albany Med. These opportunities include department funded trips to national and regional QIPS meetings, attending and contributing to our monthly Safety Intelligence Reporting Group meetings, leading Root Cause Analyses, and receiving LEAN training. The QIPS resident will accomplish all of this while meeting or exceeding the requirements necessary to complete and graduate residency at the end of three years in Albany.
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Mock Codes
We are fortunate to have access to a state of the art Patient Safety & Clinical Competency Center in the medical college. We use the Sim Center to routinely deliver the primary component of our pediatric mock code curriculum. Our pediatric mock code committee, led by our intensivist, Dr. Shahi Ambati, delivers approximately six pediatric “mega codes” to each resident throughout their three year training experience. Four residents are chosen on a bi monthly basis, and are excused from clinical duties to attend. They arrive at the PSCCC, complete a pre-survey, proceed through an ABP validated code scenario, debrief with Dr. Ambati, and then run through the code a second time. These sessions are designed to expose residents to emergent code scenarios while also allowing them to practice hands on skills and communication skills. The session concludes with a post-survey to evaluate the resident experience and knowledge retention.
To augment the mega codes in the PSCCC, the Learning to Teach Blue Team Senior is tasked with administering one to two mini mock codes during their respective rotation. These scenarios emphasize recognition of common, acute crises scenarios as well as clinical decision making, and communication skills. Additional mock codes are performed in the NICU for common NICU code scenarios.
Ultrasound Curriculum
Diagnostic ultrasound is the future of clinical practice. As part of our simulation curriculum, along with mock codes, the giving bad news program and procedure workshops, we developed one of the first courses in bedside ultrasound skills in General Pediatrics. Since 2017 all of our residents undergo 24 hours of structured teaching in how to use ultrasound diagnostically and to place PIVs beginning in Intern year. Our trainees have the chance to use their skills in the NICU and PICU to address clinical problems and support bedside procedures.
NICU Bootcamp
Vent Workshop
Masters in Bioethics
The Alden March Bioethics Institute’s online Master of Science degree in bioethics provides mid-career professionals in public health, pastoral care, patient advocacy, medical social work, medical research and the life sciences with innovative and challenging training in bioethics.
The program at Albany Medical College can be completed entirely online, giving students the flexibility to work on courses according to their schedule. Each online term is 10 weeks and the program features rolling admissions with four terms per year. Admission slots are still available for the winter term, which begins on Nov. 30.
Qualified Albany Med employees are eligible to receive a Trustee Scholarship to offset 50% of tuition cost. A bachelor’s degree is required for admission into the program. Visit www.amc.edu/Academic/bioethics or contact Alex Busch at buscha@amc.edu or (518) 262-9396 for more information.