Both the primary care clinic and the emergency department are staffed by full-time faculty. You can expect to be scheduled for in house call an average of every fourth night. As a second year resident, you gain valuable experience in the management of critically ill children. In addition, two rotations are spent in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children's Hospital. The PL-2 has primary responsibility for a number of the critically ill infants.
Residents also begin to participate in delivery room assessment and stabilization.
An additional rotation is spent in the outpatient surgery clinics, where you will see a variety of conditions in orthopedics, otolaryngology, urology and general pediatric surgery. Three rotations in the PL-2 year are available for elective experience. At the end of the second year, residents are able to assume the supervisory responsibilities necessary for the third year of pediatric training. Although there are many months of every fourth night call, over the year it averages out to every fifth night. During the third year of our pediatric training program, residents gain supervisory experience.