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Homunculus said:
post em if you got em :)

i will consolidate them all to one post once we get several up.

--your friendly neighborhood sticky-threading caveman

for starters:

www.pediatriceducation.org
Online Mendelian Inheritence in Man
American Academy of Pediatrics
Neonatology.org

http://www.aps-spr.org/Student_Research/Info.htm

Is the direct link to the summer research program

http://www.aps-spr.org/Related Links/organizations.htm

is the link from APS-SPR to most major pediatric organizations

Regards

OBP
 
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I've heard some requests for an FAQ for our peds forum. I haven't done one of these before, so bear with me. PM'ed suggestions are welcome.

I encourage all our residents and faculty members to contribute. As a matter of fact, I implore you to help! :D

I will add topics or posts as they come up and welcome any ideas for content, etc.
 
This is a consolidation of the Links sticky thread, as Homonculus intended. I will un-sticky the links thread to clean up a bit.

Here is the link to the original thread http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=216235

LINKS:
for starters:

www.pediatriceducation.org
Online Mendelian Inheritence in Man
American Academy of Pediatrics
Neonatology.org

http://www.aps-spr.org/Student_Research/Info.htm

Is the direct link to the summer research program

http://www.aps-spr.org/Related Lin...anizations.htm

is the link from APS-SPR to most major pediatric organizations

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http://www.aap.org/profed/career.htm

General information regarding the field from the AAP. Click on "pediatrics 101" for the massive pdf file.


-the steps you should start taking during residency to plan your career
-how to get fellowships, solo, group or academic positions out of residency
etc..
http://pediatrics.uchicago.edu/resid...rplanning.aspx

paediatric-infectious-diseases.com

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http://www.hawaii.edu/medicine/pediatrics/welcome.html

This is a great site to go over some basic pediatric concepts designed for residents and med students. The radiology cases number in the 100's and there are tons of films online to look at.


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http://www.toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT

LactMed Drug and Lactation Database: A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed.

99nicu - community for pro's in neonatal medicine!

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Children's Hospital Boston's Multimedia Pediatric Cardiology Library (Organized by cardiac lesion. Contains EKGs, echos, CXRs, cath images, gross path images, cardiac MRIs, surgical videos, etc...)

http://www.childrenshospital.org/cfa...te&SITE_ID=457
 
OBP's list of blogs. Some may no longer be functional, but may reappear so I thought them worth keeping up.

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Here are a couple of blogs I think are worth looking at if interested in this sort of thing. I don't personally know ANY of these people. Sometimes it's the comments on their posts that are more interesting than the actual posts.

http://neonataldoc.blogspot.com/

Is a neonatologist blog (No, not me...not even close, but I like his blog). I respect this guy for his perspectives

UPDATE: He no longer blogs due to various issues that are discussed on his site

More off-beat is this non-anonymous more literary blog

http://talesfromthewomb.blogspot.com/


http://parentingsolved.typepad.com/

Is a non-anonymous blog by a pediatric gastroenterologist with a strong interest in colic


http://denverpickles.blogspot.com/index.html

is a blog by a pediatrician in hurricane Katrina land. Quite interesting and sobering about the effects there on medical care and his practice.

Edit: Not active now
 
OBP's very useful response to the age old question...

Figuring out how to payback loans is always a valid concern. Doesn't matter what specialty you go into. If you make a large salary and buy a new expensive house and a new Lexus, it'll be a concern despite your income. Point is that at any income, you have to consider the other factors in your life and your lifestyle as a very large factor.

In terms of salary, you'll find all the usual sources of salary information out there on the internet. They probably converge on fairly accurate current numbers. Consider the following though:

1. If you do a specialty, you won't be in the job market for 7-9 yrs depending on where you're at in the job market. A lot changes in that time frame.

2. Salary offers on these sites and that others may tell you often don't make it clear what the benefits are. For example, travel, college tuition, retirement, etc.

3. Salary offers listed often do not account for additional salary that may be obtained via night call, moonlighting, etc.

4. For academic jobs, loan repayment and substantial retirement benefits are all possible and affect the calculations.

There are many more issues. This topic is debated daily on SDN. Bottom line is that general pedi makes about the same as any other primary care. Some specialties, such as neo, have the opportunity to make a lot more, others don't make any more.

Do what you'd like. You'll be able to pay the loans back if you pick a reasonable lifestyle. You might always drive a Subaru like I do, but that's okay for me. You can decide the trade-offs for yourself.
 
Here's a couple of posts regarding fast tracks and research tracks for fellowship.

Also the link to the original discussion which contains many good posts, including one about discussing these tracks on the interview trail.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=381745

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I considered doing one of the alternative pathways and decided not to (sorry OBP!). You do finish one year earlier (you have to do a fellowship, so it becomes a 5 year instead of 6 year process), but you give up much of your elective time to do it (those 12 months have to come from somewhere!). So you end up with less training, especially in subspecialties, and the 2 years are much harder because you don't have the breaks that electives provide. Instead I created a research track for myself (which we now have as a formal offering for residents) that gives me a 1/2 day per week, and 4 weeks a year of research time in the 2nd and 3rd years of residency. It has been tough, but better than trying to cram 3 years of clinical training into 2. More info on the subspecialty tracks is available at www.abp.org.

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I considered doing this as well and the reason I decided not to was that third year is a great year for supervisory roles and teaching. Since I want to go into academics more to teach than for research, I thought being a supervisor and teacher my third year would be a very valuable experience.

Just to clarify, the only true "research path" through the ABP is still 6 years. You do an extra year of research in your FOUR year fellowship at the expense of a TWO year residency. The 5 year paths are fast-tracking paths but you dont do any additional research than you would with the traditional path. One pathway allows you to finish your residency in two years for people that are just really smart, and the other allows you to give up a year of research in your fellowship if you have already spent a lot of time doing research in the past (designed to get MD PhD's quickly into a role of physician scientist in the field of pediatrics). See the ABP website for more info about each of the pathways.
 
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http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/search.php?spec=ihqpeds


# 1 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

#2 Children's Hospital Boston

#3 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

#4 Children's Hospital, Denver

#5 Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland

#6 Texas Children's Hospital, Houston

#7 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

#8 New York-Presbyterian Univ. Hosp. of Columbia and Cornell

#9 Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle

#10 Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif.


I stayed up all night to get you this list. They claim an enhanced methodology....

http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/070826/3meth.htm

compare to Child Magazine's list:

http://www.parents.com/parents/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/child/story/data/1165872619302.xml

1. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
2. Children's Hospital Boston
3. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
4. Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
5. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
6. Columbus Children's Hospital, OH
7. St. Louis Children's Hospital
8. Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland
9. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
10. The Children's Hospital in Denver
 
We should probably put some responses in here to some of the various residency questions that are repeated on this board:

#1) "What does it take to get into a competitive pediatric residency?"
Answer: This chart may help, although from last year's match:

2007 Match Outcomes

Page 92 begins the pediatric portion; this answers many questions such as "How many programs should I rank" (average matched last year ranked 8)

#2) "What USMLE score do I need?" Page 94 of above chart notes that even of the 26 US Seniors that had a step 1 score of <180; 23 of 26 were accepted at programs!! However, if you are a FMG or a D.O and categorized under independent applicant, the numbers change dramatically and become more significant.

Specifically, when asking various programs this year via email what score I needed to be competitive, many "top" programs said 210-220 makes you a competitive applicant as a US Senior, HOWEVER if you are a FMG, some required scores of 220 to even be looked at, Rainbow Babies for instance told me if you are a FMG you need a 230 to receive consideration.

Also, anecdotally, i know for a fact of at least one person who received a low (sub 200) Step 1 score and received 20/21 interviews they asked for...FWIW

#3) "Does it matter if I don't have honors in my peds rotation?" Speaking from someone who didn't, NO...it doesn't matter. It does help to kick butt on your subI and other electives. Peds people seem to generally look at a person's entire application and probably won't be shutting you out for one grade. Other thoughts:
Thread on Passing peds

#4) "Who do I need LOR's from? Pediatricians? Chairman? PD?"
Thread 1 Suggestions
Specifically Peds LORs
Chairman's Letter

Note: the requirements for chair letters may change from year-to-year!

#5) "What peds electives should I take 4th year?" See threads below:
Thread 1 Suggestions
Thread 2 Suggestions

#6) "What programs haven't typically filled/didn't fill last year?"
2003-2007 Program Results
2008 Results

By looking at each program under pediatrics, and comparing "Quota" vs "Matched" you can find which programs had scramble spots...example, U of Southern Alabama (page 2) had 1 spot open in 2007.

#7) What about programs board passing rate...I want to pass my board exams in Peds!"
ABP Board Passing Rates

#8) OK, i want to do peds, but I am worried about reimbursement, what are some salaries like in general and subspecialties?
Compensation Survey

This takes into account academic and private; and you will notice has average starting salaries and breaking stuff down into regions. As noted above by OldBear, this does not take into account benefits, call etc, but is a nice jumping-off point for those curious

#9) But OldBear noted something about loan repayment? What's that about?
NIH research for repayment
National Health Service Corps

#10 Child abuse fellowship thread

OK, that's all Ive got for now...if you have any additions to these questions/responses PM me and I will edit them in and credit you, as opposed to lengthening the FAQ!
~Crazy
 
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http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/search.php?spec=ihqpeds


# 1 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

#2 Children's Hospital Boston

#3 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

#4 Children's Hospital, Denver

#5 Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland

#6 Texas Children's Hospital, Houston

#7 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

#8 New York-Presbyterian Univ. Hosp. of Columbia and Cornell

#9 Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle

#10 Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif.


I stayed up all night to get you this list. They claim an enhanced methodology....

http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/070826/3meth.htm

compare to Child Magazine's list:

http://www.parents.com/parents/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/child/story/data/1165872619302.xml

1. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
2. Children's Hospital Boston
3. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
4. Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
5. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
6. Columbus Children's Hospital, OH
7. St. Louis Children's Hospital
8. Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland
9. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
10. The Children's Hospital in Denver

Updated US news lists...

http://health.usnews.com/sections/health/best-childrens-hospitals

For general pedi


1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

2 Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, MA

3 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH

4 Johns Hopkins Children's Center
Baltimore, MD

5 Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
Cleveland, OH

6 Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX

7 Children's Hospital, Denver
Denver, CO

8 Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Seattle, WA

9 Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
LosAngeles, CA

10 Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA

lots of specialty rankings too...

As always, believe what you'd like about the merit of these rankings :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
http://www.parents.com/parents/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/child/story/data/1165872619302.xml

1. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
2. Children's Hospital Boston
3. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
4. Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
5. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
6. Columbus Children's Hospital, OH
7. St. Louis Children's Hospital
8. Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland
9. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
10. The Children's Hospital in Denver

Hot off the presses, here's the 2009 list which you can compare to the 2007 description (that link still works).

1. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
2. Children's Hospital Boston
3. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
4. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
5. St. Louis Children's Hospital
6. Columbus Children's Hospital, OH
7. Texas Children's Hospital, Houston
8. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
9. Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland
10. The Children's Hospital in Denver

Note that this is the EXACT same 10 hospitals as in the 1997 list, just rearranged a bit in order after 1 and 2. Whether one can really identify the relative rankings of these hospitals and its "change" over time with such precision, is well, questionable at best. Nonetheless, there is still time to adjust your ROL based on the new rankings!:rolleyes:
 
Hi, does anyone know if there exists a website with licensure requirements, fees, steps involved, etc... state by state? boy am I dreading forking over thousands of dollars if I know I will change states soon and do it again a few months later!
 
Updated US news lists...

http://health.usnews.com/sections/health/best-childrens-hospitals

For general pedi


1. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

2 Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, MA

3 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH

4 Johns Hopkins Children's Center
Baltimore, MD

5 Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
Cleveland, OH

6 Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX

7 Children's Hospital, Denver
Denver, CO

8 Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Seattle, WA

9 Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
LosAngeles, CA

10 Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA

lots of specialty rankings too...

As always, believe what you'd like about the merit of these rankings :rolleyes::rolleyes:

So, this year, they chose to rank departments of pediatrics. Not sure if they will come out with hospital rankings later:

1. Harvard University
Boston, MA
2 University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
3 University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
4 Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
5 Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
6 University of Washington
Seattle, WA
7 Stanford University
Stanford, CA
8 University of Colorado--Denver
Aurora, CO
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
10 University of California--San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Since Harvard would represent two programs, not sure how to interpret that. They apparently ranked to 21.
 
Okay, this thread got a bit long and many of the links were outdated, so I've consolidated all the previous posts and merged them into one post.

Please post any links you feel are useful and I'll edit them into the thread (be warned I may delete your post to save room and clutter). Hopefully this way will make it easier for people to find useful information! :)

Career Opportunities
Pediatrics FAQ (How to become a pediatrician and what you can do from there)

Compensation data How much do we get paid?

Licensure information listed by state

Neonatology links

Discussion on military medicine

Fellowship/Subspeciality information

Fellowship listings All the things you can be.

How to become a pediatric *** (subspecialist)

Neonatology information

Forensic pediatrics

Reference Material

Breast feeding and lactation drug compatability information

Genetics database


Educational Materials and Recommended Texts

Hawaii educational database I especially recommend the radiology site. It's fantastic.

Pediatric cardiology/congenital heart disease information.

Must read review articles

Textbook: neonatal care

Nenatal textbook/reference book: Lang

Pediatric general care reference

Research Opportunities

Research information

Institution listings for research opportunities.

Fast track to research during training (residency/fellowship)

Communities and Organisations

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Board of Pediatrics

Pediatric infectious diseases

neonatology
 
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