PALS Certification

[the prodogy]

Quick question, do we need to be PALS certified for first year residency?

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[VenturaResident]

Ask your program director. Some places expect you to have ACLS/PALS certifications when you walk in the door, others will include it as part of your orientation or at some point early in residency.

 

[deleted6669]

if you have the option of APLS instead of pals it is a much better course.

 

[cabinbuilder]

I never took PALS for residency

 

[deleted6669]

it's really dependent on the program. our FP residents do acls/atls/pals/also/nrp.

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

it's really dependent on the program. our FP residents do acls/atls/pals/also/nrp.

Yeah we did all of those except ATLS

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

I never took PALS for residency

If I remember right, you didn't do much inpatient peds in residency.

 

[cabinbuilder]

If I remember right, you didn't do much inpatient peds in residency.

You are correct. We had a children's hospital in the city with their own peds residency program so we had ZERO inpatient peds. Only clinic peds.

 

[MedicineMan99]

But all Family Medicine programs require inpatient pediatrics, do they not cabinbuilder?

At my Family Medicine program, we did BLS, ACLS, PALS, ALSO, and the neonatal one. Our program offered them all during orientation. But, we had to take refresher courses every 2 years.

 

[cabinbuilder]

But all Family Medicine programs require inpatient pediatrics, do they not cabinbuilder?

At my Family Medicine program, we did BLS, ACLS, PALS, ALSO, and the neonatal one. Our program offered them all during orientation. But, we had to take refresher courses every 2 years.

Apparently not since I did not do any inpatient peds nor did I ever do OB in residency with 2 weeks NICU and never touched a baby. Mine was super IM heavy and procedure heavy.

 

[MedicineMan99]

Apparently not since I did not do any inpatient peds nor did I ever do OB in residency with 2 weeks NICU and never touched a baby. Mine was super IM heavy and procedure heavy.

You didn't do any OB in a Family Medicine residency?? How is that even possible? The AOA and ACGME require it. Here are the AOA Family Medicine program guidelines:

http://www.osteopathic.org/inside-a...y-training-in-osteopathic-family-practice.pdf

 

[manillabar]

FWIW my program is requiring BLS, ACLS. and PALS ... and offering all three during orientation... but like others have said, pretty sure it's program specific

 

[cabinbuilder]

You didn't do any OB in a Family Medicine residency?? How is that even possible? The AOA and ACGME require it. Here are the AOA Family Medicine program guidelines:

http://www.osteopathic.org/inside-a...y-training-in-osteopathic-family-practice.pdf

Well, lets put it this way. When I started our program had an "OB" rotation intern year that consisted of us getting paged to help with C-section assists only. So I assisted with about 8 C-Sections. After that the program director changed and a "real" OB rotation was created that included inpatient rounds on L &D and delivering babies. That happened when I was second year and missed the OB rotation. My senior year I did 3 months planned parenthood and one month in the GYN office doing pelvics. Not much teaching there. Don't blame me, it just happened that way. I could care less about OB anyway so it wasn't a loss to me.


Just like with "JustPlainBill" he came out of FP residency never doing a cast or a splint or learning to suture much, or taking lesions off, etc. Now how is THAT possible?