PL-3 Schedule and Rotations

Rotations in the 3rd year include:

1) Neonatal ICU Supervisor – at either Prentice Women's Hospital or Evanston Hospital, PL-3's gain experience running the team and supervising PL-1's with deliveries, procedures, and decision-making strategies.

2) Emergency Department Supervisor – PL-3's work day shifts and function both seeing patients and assisting PL-1's, MS4's, and rotators with procedures and decision-making. PL-3 also help the transport team triage calls from other emergency rooms.

3) General Medicine Ward Supervisor – Supervising PL-1's, MS3's and MS4's, the “GenMed senior” leads a large team providing general pediatric care. This rotation allows the PL-3 significant autonomy to run a service and make independent decisions while providing leadership, organization, and education.

4) Subspecialty Rotations — PL-3 residents are team leaders for a variety of subspecialties. During these rotations, the PL-3 splits time between inpatient care, consultations, and outpatient clinics.

5) Electives – a variety of elective options are available at Children's Memorial. Possible electives include: sports medicine, dermatology, dentistry, urology, otolaryngology, genetics, pediatric surgery, general academic medicine, anesthesia, radiology, vascular access, orthopedics, ophthalmology, and any additional subspecialty clinic as mentioned above.

6) Protective Services – experience in both inpatient and outpatient DCFS-related cases including neglect, physical, and sexual abuse. Residents go to autopsy reviews, case conferences, juvenile court, and the local DCFS office.

7) Senior Project - Under the guidance of a faculty preceptor, PL-3's complete a clinical or basic research "senior project ." This requirement provides residents with the experience of becoming an expert in a particular area of medicine and with an appreciation for the complexity of doing quality research.

Call during the 3rd year is every 4th night with at least one weekend off per month. This schedule is in compliance with an eighty-hour workweek per RRC requirements. Five months are call-free. Two months are spent on the Night Float system.