Academic Curriculum

Pediatric infectious diseases fellows, attendings, APRNs, pharmacists, and rotating residents and medical students attend divisional conferences.

ASP Journal Club

• Every other month journal club with article presentation and discussion led by ASP faculty.
  
  

Case Management Conference

• Weekly conference to discuss patients on the inpatient clinical consult service, interesting outpatient consults, and challenging cases.
  
  

Fellow Didactics 

• Weekly didactic conference presented by fellows, divisional faculty, or extra-divisional faculty on pediatric infectious diseases topics to prepare fellows for pediatric infectious diseases boards.

Immunocompromised Didactics

• Every other month didactic session focusing on the newest literature related to immunocompromised infectious diseases.
  
  

Journal Club

• Monthly journal club with article presentation and discussion by a fellow or faculty with a professionalism vignette at the end of every conference which encourages discussion
  
  

Kansas City Infectious Disease Society (KCIDS)

• Monthly case-based conference with both adult and pediatric infectious diseases presentations by faculty and fellows from various hospitals and universities from across the city.
  
  

Microbiology Plate Rounds

• Monthly conference with the microbiology laboratory team to review viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic pathogens from clinical service cases.
  
  

Research Conference

• Monthly conference with focused presentation by a fellow or faculty regarding ongoing research projects, which allows for brainstorming research ideas and to receive feedback for upcoming presentations.

Core Curriculum Didactics

• Monthly meeting of fellows from all subspecialties hospital-wide to address topics common to all ACGME-approved fellowship programs, including leadership development, ethics, quality improvement and safety, and manuscript preparation.
  
  

Grand Rounds

• Weekly conference with local and national speakers presenting pertinent pediatrics topics.
  
  

Morbidity and Mortality Conference

• Monthly conference structured to define ways to improve quality of care through the analysis of recent cases.
  
  

Professor Rounds

• Case-based presentations with an educational didactic component for hospital staff prepared and presented by a senior resident each week.
  
  

Academic Scholarship Conference

• A unique bimonthly conference covering topics such as quality improvement, advocacy, research and medical education presented by CMKC faculty as well as guest speakers and visiting professors.
  
  

Statistics Course

• Monthly biostatistics training with introduction into various analysis techniques.
  
  

Continuous Quality and Practice Improvement

• Annual seminars as well as monthly longitudinal experiential classes are offered to promote education of and development of quality improvement.
  
  

Grant Writing Workshop

• Fellows will complete a two day grant writing workshop along with a longitudinal curriculum to support them through writing a competitive grant application.