Pediatric Emergency Medicine Track

The goal for this track within the UB EM residency is to provide trainees with extra instruction and experience in the subspecialty of pediatric emergency medicine. This deeper exposure will allow EM graduates the ability to have a pediatric niche within their future practice groups and/or provide an excellent background for doing a fellowship in PEM.

• Attendance at 50% of PEM fellowship academic sessions each month
• Staff Meetings: Review the Wang Q&A’s and F&L readings prior to the staff meetings held from 9:30 to 11 a.m. on 1st and 3rd Thursday 
• ED-PICU conferences: quarterly as scheduled
• All PEM|CoR sessions mandatory; create/run scenario station each session during 2nd/3rd years
• Attend Pediatric STAT meetings monthly
• Create and present an EM grand rounds on a PEM topic during 2nd or 3rd year
• Complete monthly PREP E-Med questions
•  Write up one PEM case report or research study & submit it to a peer-reviewed journal
• Complete Advanced PEM elective as an EM-3

• Fleisher & Ludwig’s Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 6th Edition
• PREP E-Med
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine Question Review Book, 2013; Edited by: Wang

{Approved by EM|PEC: February 11th, 2015; Updated: 5-18-15}