Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship

Welcome. Our two-year ACGME-accredited Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship trains pediatric hospitalists at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, where you will care for one of the most diverse patient populations in the country across general, subspecialty, and surgical pediatrics.

Our hospitalist service cares for every child admitted to the pediatric floor. We are the primary service for nearly all of them, and we comanage our surgical and hematology/oncology patients. You will care for all of them.

We accept two fellows per year, and they are the only pediatric fellows in the medical center. With no subspecialty fellowships alongside you, procedures, teaching, and mentorship are not divided among competing trainees. You will teach pediatric residents and medical students from your first weeks here.

Every fellow builds an individualized curriculum around one of three tracks: medical education, research, or public health. Our public health track includes a fully funded Master of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley during your second year, at no cost to you. Most of our graduates go on to practice as pediatric hospitalists, and many of them stay with us.

We look forward to meeting you.

Program Structure

The two-year ACGME accredited fellowship seeks to strike a balance between developing a robust hospitalist skillset and pursuing additional projects in the fellow’s particular area of interest. There are three tracks offered to our fellows, the first two involve dedicating time toward either a career in medical education or research. The third track allows our fellows to pursue a Masters Degree in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley during the fellow’s second year of training. We are proud to maintain close working relationships with our nearby academic medical centers and our fellows are able to do ward rotations at the UCSF Medical Center and community hospital rotations at Kaiser San Leandro Medical and Kaiser Walnut Creek Medical Center.

The fellowship curriculum is based on the ACGME and PHM competencies, with a focus on three major training areas:

• Core Clinical Curriculum: (inpatient medicine, Wards/PICU) the goal being to teach evidence-based medicine and apply this to common pediatric diagnoses as well as specialty and surgical cases. Procedural skills and effective teaching habits are also focused on during the fellows core clinical curriculum.
• Research/Quality Improvement: fellows will be paired with one or more research mentors with a goal of completing a scholarly project or research project during their fellowship. The project will be chosen by the fellow.
• Individualized curriculum: fellow selected electives to strengthen and broaden their education. Our fellowship offers electives in Pediatric Palliative Care, Infectious Disease, Cardiology, Neurology, Anesthesiology, Radiology, Gastroenterology, Pulmonology, Hematology-Oncology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Transport/Sedation, Well Baby Nursery, NICU, PICU.

*Depending on which track the fellow chooses, they will complete a total of 32 weeks core curriculum, 32 weeks of Research/Quality Improvement (or completion of an MPH program the 2nd year) and 32 weeks of individualized curriculum and 8 weeks of vacation over the 2 year fellowship.

The clinical rotations are centered at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Oakland and are actively supervised by the fellowship administration and the Pediatric Hospital Based Specialists.

However, fellows are encouraged to spend time at nearby community hospitals or academic centers if they are interested and may spend time at UCSF, Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek or San Leandro.

Career development and leadership skills will develop through clinical curriculum but also through a variety of faculty development opportunities. The fellows will run mock codes and lead monthly morbidity and mortality seminars. They will participate in the Fellows’ College with other fellows at UCSF. They will also be supported and given the opportunity to attend national conferences, including the annual PHM & AAP conferences. The fellows can attend department meetings and will be mentored on joining applicable committees with their quality improvement or career interests in mind.

Scholarship is an extremely important aspect of the fellowship, fellows will complete a scholarly project of their choice during their two year fellowship. Click here for more information: PHM fellowship

Some Perks

• Competitive PGY4 & 5 salary in the beautiful Bay Area
• Funding provided for PALS, NRP & State licensing fees
• Funding provided for attendance at national conferences, PHM, AAP, Fellows Conference
• Opportunity to complete MPH at Cal Berkeley with funding provided during second year

How to Apply