2024-2025 M3/M4 Course Syllabi
Pediatrics
COURSE NUMBER:
16 01 16
TITLE:
PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY OP -ICE
A student will spend majority of elective time in outpatient exposure to consultations and management of pediatric heart disease; inpatient experience with neonatal heart disease and cardiovascular manifestations of systemic illness is available; and students will participate in didactic sessions on physical examination, EKG, echocardiography and cardiac catheterization as well as acquired and congenital forms of heart disease.
PREREQUISITES:
26961373 (PEDIATRICS CORE CLKSP), 26961373 (PEDIATRICS CORE CLKSP)

All students must sign up for this elective (after lottery) through UC's MedOneStop.
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GENERAL INFORMATION

COURSE YEAR:
M4
CREDIT HOURS:
8
CREDIT WEEKS:
4
DOMESTIC VISITING:
NO
INTERNATIONAL VISITING:
NO
GRADED:
Honors/High Pass/Pass/Fail
COURSE QUALIFICATIONS:
ICE, Outpatient
COURSE TYPE:
Clinical
STATUS:
Full-Time   
OFFERED AS FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME: NO
ALLOWS OVERLAP: NO
COURSE LENGTH:
2 or 4 weeks
DIRECTOR:
Elisa Marcuccio
elisa.marcuccio@cchmc.org
859-3444732
Location C & D, 4th Floor
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT PERSON:
Mimi Pence
Mimi.Pence@cchmc.org
636-0339
Kasota Building, 7th Floor at CCHMC, BN7.727
SITE(S):
CCHMC - Cincinnati Children's Hospital
MAX ENROLL:
1 
ROTATIONS:
Rotation Dates Max
1 05/06/2024 - 05/31/2024 0
2 06/03/2024 - 06/28/2024 0
3 07/01/2024 - 07/26/2024 0
4 07/29/2024 - 08/09/2024 1
4 07/29/2024 - 08/23/2024 1
4 08/12/2024 - 08/23/2024 1
5 08/26/2024 - 09/06/2024 1
5 08/26/2024 - 09/20/2024 1
5 09/09/2024 - 09/20/2024 1
6 09/23/2024 - 10/04/2024 0
6 09/23/2024 - 10/18/2024 0
6 10/07/2024 - 10/18/2024 0
7 10/21/2024 - 11/01/2024 1
7 10/21/2024 - 11/15/2024 1
7 11/04/2024 - 11/15/2024 1
8 11/18/2024 - 12/13/2024 1
9 12/16/2024 - 12/27/2024 1
9 12/16/2024 - 01/10/2025 1
9 12/30/2024 - 01/10/2025 1
10 01/13/2025 - 01/24/2025 1
10 01/13/2025 - 02/07/2025 1
10 01/27/2025 - 02/07/2025 1
11 02/10/2025 - 02/21/2025 1
11 02/10/2025 - 03/07/2025 1
11 02/24/2025 - 03/07/2025 1
12 03/10/2025 - 04/04/2025 0
13 04/07/2025 - 05/02/2025 1

NOTE: If a rotation is offered in both 2 and 4 week slots, the max capacity is limited to the actual spots offered for the 4 weeks. (ie: the 2 week rotations listed share the max of the 4 week rotation)
WORKING HOURS:
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday
REPORT 1ST DAY:
You will receive an email with detailed information prior to the elective from the department. Ask for Cindy Pottorf or Alexia Goines.

INSTRUCTION

LEARNING ACTIVITIES:
  • Case-Based Instruction/Learning
  • Clinical Experience - Ambulatory
  • Clinical Experience - Inpatient
  • Conference
  • Patient Presentation--Faculty
  • Patient Presentation--Learner
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT POLICIES:
UCCOM strives to provide medical students with a learning environment that is conducive to their professional growth. All UCCOM and visiting medical students are encouraged to review the Student Handbook.

The Office of Student Affairs and Admissions is available to all UCCOM and visiting medical students to discuss any concerns/questions related to the learning environment. Please call 558-6796 to access faculty/staff that can assist you.
TEACHING:
70% Attending Physician
20% Junior Resident
10% Fellow Physician
FEEDBACK:
ASSESSMENT:

ASSESSMENT METHODS:
Clinical Performance Rating/Checklist
Multisource Assessment (a formal assessment of performance by supervisors, peers, patients, and coworkers)
Oral Patient Presentation
Participation
FINAL GRADE:
GRADE ASSIGNED BY: Course director

OBJECTIVES

Curricular Resources :
Syllabus of journal articles and handouts found on our departmental website:  http://centerlink.cchmc.org/employees/clinical-links
Instructional Methods:
  • Instructional
  • Clinical experience – inpt and ambulatory
  • Conference
  • Patient presentation learner
  • Ward rounds if offered
Knowledge/Skills:
  1. More critically assess historical facts and findings obtained  from physical examination which will allow them to distinguish heart disease from a normal cardiovascular system in children.
   2. Recognize the characteristic features of innocent and pathologic cardiac murmurs.
   3. Understand the more common forms of congenital and acquired pediatric heart disease.
   4. Recognize life threatening cardiovascular disease in children.
   5. Recognize the symptoms of congestive heart failure in childhood.
   6. Become aware of the various cardiac laboratory techniques that are currently used and the manner in which they are applied to delineate the morphology, physiology, hemodynamics and conduction system of the normal and diseased cardiovascular system in children.
   7. Read pediatric electrocardiograms.
Main Course Topics :
  1. Electrocardiography
  2. Echocardiography
  3. Congenital heart disease
  4. Cardiovascular examination
  5. Cardiovascular surgery
  6. Cyanotic heart disease
  7. Heart murmurs
Procedures:
Not applicable
Remediation Plan:
 Remediation plan includes self-directed assignments and additional assignments geared toward acquistion of knowledge

SAMPLE WEEK

Monday:
7:00AM 8:00AM Cath conference
8:00AM 9:00AM Echo Reading Conference
9:00AM 12:00PM Dr. Divanovic/Redington clinics
12:00PM 1:00PM Heart Institute Grand Rounds
1:00PM 5:00PM Dr. Divanovic/Redington clinics
Tuesday:
7:00AM 8:00AM CICU Conference
8:00AM 9:00AM Echo Reading Conference
9:00AM 4:30PM Moore/Lang clinic
Wednesday:
7:00AM 9:00AM Case Management Surgical Conference
9:00AM 4:30PM Cnota/Hanke clinic
Thursday:
8:00AM 9:00AM Echo Reading Conference
9:00AM 11:00AM Drs. Hirsch/Heydarian/Spar clinics
11:00AM 5:00PM Drs. Hirsch/Heydarian/Spar clinics
5:00PM 6:00PM EP conference
Friday:
8:00AM 5:00PM Dr. Madsen clinic
SCHEDULE NOTE:

Students are expected to attend daily clinics, Wednesday AM surgical conference, Monday noon conference and additional weekly lectures at 2:30 PM (monthly schedule to be provided upon start of rotation).

Weeks are likely to vary according to the student's interest with time spent in the echocardiography lab, catheterization lab or EP service also available.

ATTENDANCE AND ABSENCE POLICY

 

Session Attendance for M4 Students

  • Students may miss no more than two days of planned excused absences on a four week rotation without being required to make-up the work, at the discretion of the clerkship/elective/course director or his/her designee.
  • Non-AI Rotations - Per the Student Duty Hours Policy, an average of one day (24 hours) in every seven must be free of clinical responsibilities (including seminars, clinic, rounds, lectures) averaged over a four week period. These days off are assigned by the clerkship director to best align with the site schedule. Students may request to schedule 1 or more of these 4 days for planned absences that fall under 1 of the categories listed below for excused absences during non-AI rotations, in consultation with the course/elective director, who may or may not approve such planned absences.
  • AI Rotations - Per the Student Duty Hours Policy, an average of one day (24 hours) in every seven must be free of clinical responsibilities (including seminars, clinic, rounds, lectures) averaged over a four week period. These days off are assigned by the course director to best align with the site schedule. Students may request to schedule 1 or 2 of these days for planned absences that fall under 1 of the categories listed below for excused absences during AI rotations, in consultation with the course director, who may or may not approve such planned absences. Students must avoid scheduling Step 2 examinations during an Acting Internship.
  • Excused Absences - The following will be considered excused absences:
    • Diagnostic, preventative, and therapeutic health services (e.g. doctor appointments, physical therapy, counselling, etc).
    • Personal illness, accident or a major catastrophic event
    • Death or serious illness of immediate family members. Immediate family members, as defined by UC, are Grandparents, Brother, Sister, Brother-in law, Sister-in-law, Daughter-in-law, Son-in-law, Father, Mother, Mother-in-law, Father-in-law, Step-sister, Step-brother, Step-mother, Step-father, Spouse or domestic partner, Child, Grandchild, legal Guardian or other person who stands in place of parent (in Loco Parentis)
  • Whenever possible, planned absences should be requested a minimum of six weeks in advance of the start of the clerkship/elective/course in which the absence will occur; this enables the clerkship/course/elective to help plan for educational event scheduling (e.g. a known appointment could be scheduled around with enough notice and the student might not have any required coursework to make up). Absences requested less than 1 week prior to the planned absence may not be considered for a possible excused absence unless extenuating circumstances prevented the student from providing timely notification per the policy. Students should first submit their request for a planned absence to the clerkship/elective/course director using the online MSSF. All planned/excused absences for any reason should be documented on the MSSF.
  • The COM abides by the UC Religious Observance Policy that respects the religious diversity of its students by providing opportunities, where possible, for accommodation in cases where conflicts exist between students’ religious beliefs/practices and educational activities. In clinical settings, such accommodations must honor the primacy of a commitment to patient care and avoid unduly burdening faculty, staff and the general student population involved in the affected educational and/or patient care activity.
  • The following items are explained in detail in the Medical Student Handbook:
    • Excused/unexcused/unplanned absence, religious holidays, jury duty, and make-up work

See Attendance and Absences Policy, Religious Observance Policy, Medical Student Handbook.




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