The didactic portion of the Training Program in Pediatric Endocrinology includes:
A weekly tutorial with division faculty. This tutorial occurs during the first 6 months of the fellowship and is designed to ensure that the Fellowship addresses the physiology, diagnosis, and management of all major pediatric endocrine disorders.
Weekly case management conferences. One conference is devoted to topics related to general endocrinology and one is devoted to diabetes-related subjects. The conferences include lively discussions of the care of all patients seen over the past week by the endocrine inpatient/consultative team. Selected outpatient cases are also discussed. Fellows are expected to assume a leadership role in these conferences during their clinical rotations and to prepare and present selected topics for discussion. These conferences provide the fellow the opportunity to investigate clinical topics in depth and to engage a sophisticated audience in the discussion of these topics.
A series of biostatistics and research design lectures. This series consists of 40 hours of didactic presentations sponsored each year by the Division of Clinical Epidemiology. The series is specifically designed to educate the fellows at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital regarding proper research methodology. A shorter course consisting of 9 weekly sessions is presented by the General Clinical Research Center staff at University Hospitals of Cleveland. This shorter series can be taken by those more interested in basic science research.
Journal club is held monthly with presentations by faculty and fellows.
Hospital-wide Endocrine Grand Rounds sessions are held weekly at both University Hospitals of Cleveland and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.