Getting Ready

The Pediatric WWAMI Medical Student Program will contact you via email approximately 5-6 weeks prior to the start of your elective. There are things you need to do so that you ensure that you will start your rotation on time.

Contact Trudy Furberry at A-300 to confirm that a “Letter of Good Standing” has been sent to your site.

Contact Kaye Holman in Boise at kaye.holman@fmridaho.org, she will help you get your credentialing started prior to your rotation.

Schedule

All mornings are spent in the hospital rounding with the peds team; all afternoons not on-call are spent in outpatient peds clinic; afternoons and nights spent on-call are in the hospital; on-call every 5th night; post-call afternoons off; do not work on weekends or holidays unless on-call or morning post-call. Every morning, sign-out occurs at about 7 am; from 10:30 - 11:15 am is attending rounds (review of patients and related teaching); from 11:15 am - noon is didactics (lecture). We have an amazing variety of patient admissions and opportunities for peds subspecialty exposure. Suggested readings are patient-based reading.