With more than 900 staff physicians and more than 600 licensed beds, University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Hospital is Mid-Michigan's preeminent medical facility. Our partnership with University of Michigan Health-Sparrow allows our residents access to a wide array of specialty and sub-specialty units. Whether you are looking for a career in general pediatrics or pursuing a fellowship, our comprehensive program will give you the well-rounded background and experience you need to succeed. As a University of Michigan Health-Sparrow/Michigan State University pediatric resident, you will work the following rotations:
Pediatric Inpatient Ward
41 bed pediatric ward
6 core general pediatrics hospitalists
2500 admissions per year, average daily census is 22
Interns participate in the care and management of up to 8 patients per day with senior residents and attendings overseeing the education of each intern
The inpatient team includes 1-2 attendings, 1-3 senior residents, 2-4 interns, and medical students assigned to the peds ward per rotation.
Daily teaching rounds performed by board-certified faculty members and senior residents
One week of night shift per rotation for interns and seniors.
Newborn Nursery
50 bed newborn nursery (newborns room in with mothers)
Certified baby-friendly hospital
Staffed by pediatric hospitalists
3500 births per year, average daily census is 20 patients
Residents are primary caregivers to infants on the Newborn Teaching Service
Over 500 newborns per year receive their follow-up care in the residency continuity clinic
Daily teaching rounds with attendings
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
47 bed Neonatal ICU
7 neonatologists and up to 6 MSU Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellows (2 per year)
800 admissions per year, with an average daily census of 32 patients
Residents are primary caregivers to their assigned neonates
Residents are always first in line for performing procedures and attending deliveries
Daily teaching rounds by neonatologists and fellows
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
12 bed Pediatric ICU
4 full time intensivists
650 Yearly admissions, with an average daily census of 8 patients
Residents participate in the PICU by being first to the bedside for their patients, attending to traumas in the ER, responding to codes, treating child abuse victims, attending the OR with patients, and assisting with transfers to/or from other facilities or other floors within the hospital.
Daily teaching rounds with a pediatric intensivist
Each resident in the PICU has one week of night shift per rotation.
Pediatric Emergency Room
Mid-Michigan’s first and only pediatric-specific emergency room
3 dedicated Pediatric Emergency Medicine board-certified attendings
20,000 visits per year
Residents participate fully in patient care including attending traumas/codes and performing procedures
Residents have approximately 13 shifts per rotation
Pediatric Subspecialty Education and Individualized Curriculum
Numerous pediatric subspecialties are available for residents to build their individualized curriculum.
Our residents are often the only resident on the service. They spend an entire month benefiting from one-to-one teaching from the subspecialist attending. Our individualized curriculum allows your learning to be tailored to your future career goals. Often, residents going into fellowship will opt to do a second, more-advanced subspecialty experience. Several residents have designed their own individualized curriculum options and we are open to discussing new ideas for rotations that would assist you on your pathway. Our current electives include (but are not limited to) the following:
Allergy/Immunology
Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics
Infectious Disease
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Rural Medicine
Anesthesia
Endocrinology
Local Global Health
Procedures
Sedation
Breastfeeding/Lactation Clinic
Gastroenterology
Neurology
Psychiatry
Sports Medicine
Cardiology
General Pediatrics
Orthopedics
Pulmonology
Surgery
Child Abuse
Hematology/Oncology
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
Radiology
Dermatology
Hospitalist Medicine
Parenting
Research
Residents’ Continuity Clinics
Continuity Clinic is located at Cedar Pediatrics in the Ingham County Health Department. As a federally qualified health center (FQHC), we focus on medically underserved patients in Lansing and residents serve as primary care providers for their patients and provide comprehensive care for a wide range of medical issues and complexity. Our clinic has multiple community resources and services available on-site including a behavioral health consultant, lab, and immunizations clinic.
In our X+Y scheduling model, residents have a “Y” clinic week every 4 weeks. During this week, they complete 5 half-day continuity clinics in addition to didactic and longitudinal curriculum experiences (see the curriculum tab for more information!). This model increases patient continuity as it allows for regular monthly follow-ups and consistent clinic schedules.
Patients are scheduled with their resident primary care provider as often as possible to encourage continuity.
Residents have their patients referred to their panel after hospital stays, from the RNICU, or from the newborn nursery.
Preceptors are MSU faculty general pediatricians from the MSU College of Human Medicine and the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine.
During a single half-day session, 1-4 residents arescheduledand each resident will generally see 3-6 patients per half day.