Pediatric Residency Program

The Core Lecture Series is a key element of the Massachusetts General Hospital Pediatric Residency Program.

The summer core lectures are focused on pediatric emergencies and the most essential topics for new interns. The fall-spring lectures cover a broad range of pediatric topics that are organized in a roughly developmental progression. Topics most relevant to infancy are given first and progress through toddlerhood, school-age and into adolescence. Each summer, the core lecture series is held daily from 8 am to 9 am. During the fall, winter and spring, it is held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays to accommodate Grand Rounds (Tuesday) and Chief of Service Conference (Friday). Residents and interns attend the lectures either in person at Massachusetts General Hospital, or via teleconferencing to Cambridge Hospital, North Shore Children’s Hospital, and Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

        Summer Series Topics

        Fall/Winter/Spring Topics

  • Overview of Pediatric Codes
  • Practicalities of Selecting Antibiotics
  • Antibiotics: Case Scenarios
  • Palliative Care
  • Fluid Resuscitation and Acute Electrolyte Disturbances I
  • Chemotherapy & Associated Complications
  • TPN— A Survival Guide
  • Diabetic Ketoacidosis
  • Cardiac Emergencies I
  • Acute Respiratory Emergencies and Anaphylaxis
  • Oncology Emergencies
  • Neurological emergencies
  • Sickle Cell Disease Emergencies
  • Getting a Handle on Child Psychiatry & Psychosomatic Illness
  • Minor Surgery Workshop
  • Acute Bleeding Disorders/Emergencies
  • Renal Emergencies
  • Toxicology
  • Acute Psychiatric Service & Child Psychiatry Emergencies
  • Child Abuse
  • Medical Education in the 21st century
  • Commonly used Herbal Remedies in Pediatrics
  • Cardiac Emergencies II
  • Neonatal Emergencies
  • The Immunocompromised Host
  • Fever and Neutropenia
  • Depression & Suicide
  • Basics of Literature Searchers
  • Fluid Resuscitation and Acute Electrolyte Disturbances II
  • Sexual Assault
  • Radiologic Emergencies
  • Acute Life-Threatening Infections
  • Anorexia Protocol
  • Common ENT Emergencies
  • Orthopedic Emergencies
  • Pediatrics Global Health – Cambodia
  • Acute Management of Burns
  • Basics of Literature Searchers
  • Resident Educator
  • GI and Hepatic Emergencies
  • Approach to the Sick Infant with Metabolic Acidosis
  • Getting a Handle on Child Psychiatry & Psychosomatic Illness
  • Immunizations
  • Hyperbilirubinemia
  • Prenatal Visits, Baby Books and More
  • Normal cardiac development and initial approach to infants with cardiac disease
  • Writing for Scientific Publication: Tips for Getting Started
  • Common Birth Defects
  • Pediatric Pain Conference
  • Neonatal Emergencies
  • Psychosomatic Illness
  • Newborn surgical emergencies
  • Antibiotics
  • Radiology of Child Abuse
  • Cystic Fibrosis Update
  • Diarrhea and gastroenteritis in office practice
  • Pediatric Stroke
  • Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Breastfeeding: Techniques and How to Support BF mothers
  • Floppy Infant
  • Neonatal infections
  • Positional Ventilatory Abnormalities
  • Human brain development
  • Williams Syndrome and other microdeletion syndromes
  • Leukocoria
  • Otitis media in the community
  • Pulmonary signs and symptoms
  • Meningitis and central nervous system infections
  • Advocacy issues: the child in their community
  • Head Imaging Overview
  • Lead: Evaluation and Treatment
  • AOM and treatment in the post-Prevnar Era
  • Solid tumors of childhood: 2
  • Pneumonia
  • Asthma in primary care
  • Toxic ingestions
  • Nutrition— Practical Advice
  • Urinary Crystals
  • Solid tumors of childhood: 1
  • Diarrhea and rehydration
  • Sepsis
  • Infections of the head and neck: Sinusitis, lymphadenitis, orbital cellulitis
  • Neurodevelopmental Guidelines: Clinical Assessment and Identification of Delay and Regression
  • Management of Chronic Illness in Primary Care
  • Childhood Injury and Prevention
  • Preventive cardiology in pediatrics
  • Asthma
  • Thyroid Diseases
  • Chest Radiology Overview
  • Palliative Care
  • Appendicitis and the approach to the surgical abdomen
  • Normal toddler/preschooler development
  • Childhood fractures
  • Pediatric Dentistry
  • Ethics Discussion: Should this Baby Live? Who Decides?
  • Developmental Screening in the Office
  • How Hypnosis Helps Kids
  • Developmentally Appropriate Pediatric Pain Management Strategies
  • Celiac Disease and malabsorption
  • Systems of Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs
  • Pediatric Sleep Disorders
  • MassHealth and the Health Care Reform Bill
  • GI/GU Imaging Overview
  • Disorders of Calcium and Phosphorus
  • Global health, visiting professor
  • Upper Respiratory Tract Infections
  • Hypertension
  • Diabetes as an outpatient: Pumps, pens, meters and more
  • Bacteremias and UTI
  • Brain Tumors
  • Allergy Topic Board review
  • Respiratory Failure
  • The "Ins and Outs" of the Scrotum: Hernias, Hydroceles and Undescended Testes
  • Childhood injuries in office practice
  • Nephrotic Syndrome
  • Refugee Medicine
  • Epilepsy
  • Resident As Educator
  • School Health
  • Media, pop culture and mental health
  • ADHD
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • Male pubertal issues
  • Flow abnormalities in the heart: ASD, VSD etc
  • Herbal Supplements
  • HIPPAA Headaches
  • Joint pain in childhood
  • Glomerular Diseases MORNING REPORT TIME
  • Introduction to Biofeedback
  • VATER and CHARGE associations
  • Violence Prevention in Pediatric Practice
  • Juvenile SLE
  • Headache
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Bright futures
  • Anorexia and Bulimia
  • Ethics Conference: Topic TBA
  • Depression and Suicide
  • Psychosomatic illness in the community
  • Media, pop culture and mental health
  • Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism
  • Introduction to Biofeedback
  • Growth and Puberty
  • Contraception
  • Acne Management
  • Food Allergies
  • Pregnancy

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