Resident Educational Conferences
The Department of Pediatrics Residency Program offers protected time daily for residents to attend educational conferences, in addition to two departmental conferences that residents attend each week and an academic half day on Monday mornings for all residents on their Y block or ED rotations. Below are descriptions of several of these events.
Noon Report (Case Conference)
Monday-Friday: 12:00 to 1:00 PM
During this daily conference, residents present recent cases from the wards or clinics with discussion facilitated by the chief residents and faculty. This is an opportunity for our residents to discuss the diagnosis, work-up and management of a variety of medical conditions, and most importantly, it is their consistent opportunity to engage in lively academic debate and practice detailing their medical decision-making in a confidential and supportive atmosphere. While it is primarily a resident lead conference, faculty members participate to lend their expertise to the discussion. Chief residents and program leadership hold pagers and phones during this hour to protect residents to engage in the conferences fully. In addition to case conferences, we also have curated a series of didactic noon conferences focused on core pediatric content taught by our faculty. These occur alongside our monthly Housestaff meetings to discuss program updates.
FIRM Conference
Tuesday: 8:00 to 9:00 AM
FIRM is one of our most unique multidisciplinary conferences. Each week, faculty from each of the pediatric disciplines, residents, and students gather to discuss and debate a single recent case from the wards. Residents are able to sit back and learn from the experts as they generate a differential, present cutting-edge evidence-based data and work through the medical decision making process.
Health Equity Rounds
Tuesdays, bimonthly: 8:00 to 9:00 AM
In an effort to unveil and address the pervasiveness of implicit bias and structural racism, Health Equity Rounds (HER)--every other month interdisciplinary case conference series--was implemented at Lurie Children's Hospital in 2021. Health Equity Rounds serves as an opportunity for faculty, trainees, students and staff throughout our institution to dissect patient cases with a health equity lens and engage in discussions about the impact structural racism and implicit bias have on patient care. In addition, this conference provides for students, trainees, faculty and staff an opportunity to discuss solutions for addressing, mitigating and abolishing the impacts of bias for the institution, the communities we serve, and healthcare systems at large. Each Health Equity Rounds is followed by a resident and student only debrief from 12:30 to 1:00 PM.
Grand Rounds
Friday: 8:00 to 9:00 AM
Pediatric Grand Rounds assembles speakers on a variety of clinical and research-related topics from Northwestern faculty and other respected healthcare professionals across the country. Contact pediatrics@luriechildrens.org to receive weekly notice of Grand Rounds.