Pediatrics Interview Handbook - 2023/24

Department of Pediatrics Interview Handbook

The Department of Pediatrics at Quillen College of Medicine is dedicated to improving the health and welfare of over 230,000 children in Northeast Tennessee and the surrounding Appalachian Region. Our commitment extends to providing excellent education to our residents, medical students, and other graduate level professionals including nursing, public health, social work and psychology. The department consists of 43 fulltime faculty, numerous clinical faculty, and multiple staff that support the educational and research programs. We have a full range of clinical pediatric divisions including Adolescent Medicine, Cardiology, Community Medicine, Critical Care, Child Neurology, Development/ Behavior, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, General Pediatrics, Genetics, Hematology/Oncology, Hospital Medicine, Infectious Disease, Neonatology, Nephrology , Pulmonology, Rheumatology, and a Research Division.

Our Hematology/Oncology Division is an affiliate of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, allowing us to provide the latest cancer treatment and research within the St. Jude system. The Neonatology Division is the nucleus of Northeast Tennessee’s Regional Perinatal Center. We service high risk pregnancies and offer premature newborn care for eight counties in Upper East Tennessee, as well as ten counties in Southwest Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky.

We have a close affiliation with Niswonger Children’s Hospital, a state-of-the-art 69 bed children’s hospital. At Niswonger, residents will have their rotations in pediatric emergency medicine, inpatient pediatrics, pediatric ICU, neonatal ICU, normal newborn nursery and hematology/oncology. Outpatient specialty services are provided in clinics adjacent to and across the street from the hospital. Resident continuity clinic is embedded in our outpatient clinic which has 36 exam rooms and provides high quality medical home services that include behavioral health, social work and care coordination.

The ETSU Quillen College of Medicine Pediatric Department offers a three year, fully accredited pediatric residency program. We offer two tracks: general pediatrics and a specialty track. We provide opportunities for residents to do clinical and population health research and global health rotations. We place particular emphasis in training residents on the social determinants of health and how to advocate for the health and welfare of children in society.

I would be pleased to answer any questions you might have. Feel free to contact me at: Tuell@etsu.edu.

Dawn S. Tuell, MD Professor and Department Chair Department of Pediatrics

Greetings!

Welcome to East Tennessee! We are pleased you chose to interview with the Department of Pediatrics at Quillen College of Medicine. Our mission is to train pediatric residents in the art and science of pediatrics. We achieve our mission through a challenging academic curriculum and family centered patient care in a nurturing environment. Our academic curriculum is based off the Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics which serves as a primary resource for our residents throughout their training. We have system-based themed months in which residents will participate in didactics, team-based learning, simulation training and a monthly exam and review. This curriculum has proven very successful since its implementation.

In addition, our faculty is known for their excellent teaching. Five out of the last six years, the medical students at Quillen College of Medicine have elected our department as the “Clinical Clerkship of the Year” because of our faculty and residents’ dedication to education.

Our residents and faculty are outstanding. East Tennessee is a lovely place to live. We really hope you discover all of this and more during your interview day. Let us know if we can do anything to assist you during your visit. Feel free to contact us anytime if you have any further questions about our program. Best wishes throughout the match process and we look forward to getting to know you on your interview day.

Lauren Swift, MD Program Director Assistant Professor of Pediatrics swiftln@etsu.edu

Jodi Gage, MD Associate Program Director Assistant Professor of Pediatrics gagejb@etsu.edu

Priya Jain, MD Associate Program Director Associate Professor of Pediatrics jainpn@etsu.edu

Rachel Lindsey, MD Associate Program Director Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Pediatric Residents 2023-2024

Morgan Cantor, MD PGY-3 cantormm@etsu.edu

Margaret Dorn, MD Chief Resident PGY-3 dornmt@etsu.edu

MacGregor HallWurst, DO PGY-3 hallwurst@etsu.edu

Heeyun Kim, DO PGY-3 Kimeh1@etsu.edu

Andrea

DO PGY-3 mosleyad@etsu.edu

Victoria

DO Chief Resident PGY-3 piggva@etsu.edu

Jordan

DO PGY-3 stroudjl@etsu.edu

Davisnc1@etsu.edu

lapinski@etsu.edu

Lindsay Lewis, DO PGY-2 gardnersls@etsu.edu

Rebecca Oksnevad, DO 2 oksnevad@etsu.edu

Quinn Owen, MD PGY-2 owenqr@etsu.edu

Elisa Pirozzi, MD PGY-2 pirozzi@etsu.edu

Joshua

Haley Bradshaw, MD PGY-1 bradshawhn@etsu.edu

Devyn Hayes, MD PGY-1 hayesdh@etsu.edu

Soumya Jena, MD PGY-1 jenasr@etsu.edu

Twisha Shukla, MD PGY-1 shuklat@etsu.edu

Tyler Stone, DO PGY-1 stonejt2@etsu.edu

Dakota Thompson, DO PGY-1 thompsondw@etsu.edu

Naomi

MD 1 patelnv@etsu.edu

sealek@etsu.edu

Mosley,

Pigg,

Stroud,

Nakeia Davis, DO PGY-2

Taylor Lapinski, MD PGY-2

Hayley Lawrence, DO PGY-2 lawrencehr@etsu.edu

Starkey, MD PGY-2 starkeyj@etsu.edu

Patel,

Katie Seale, DO PGY-1

Our training is intense and challenging, yet the environment is supportive and nurturing. Our residents regularly get together outside of the hospital, for both educational and recreational activities. We hope to attract a group of people with interesting and diverse backgrounds, who can come together and work well as a team. To this end, the department hosts many events to encourage our residents to get to know each other outside of work.

Resident Life

Past events have included:

• Kayaking

• Dollywood

• Bike riding

• Holiday Parties

• Paint Night

Recent Graduates-Where are they now?

Our residency graduates have pursued a variety of career paths, including general pediatrics, pediatric subspecialty fellowships, and academic general pediatrics. Over the past 10 years, our residents have entered private practices from New York to California, and fellowship training programs all across the country.

The following is a list of fellowship matches from the last 5 years:

• Hematology/Oncology at University of Utah

• Neonatology at East Carolina University, Vanderbilt, University of Kentucky, UT Health Science Center, TX , and Wake Forest

• Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt

• Gastroenterology at State University of New York

• Allergy and Immunology at University of Mississippi

• Pulmonology at UPMC Children’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Cardiology at Augusta University

• PEM/Child Abuse at Medical University of South Carolina

• Pediatric Critical Care at the University of Oklahoma

• Pediatric Gastroenterology at Vanderbilt University

Here’s the breakdown of graduate destinations over the past 10 years:

• General Pediatrics: 70% Fellowship: 30%

Locations of our Graduates over the past 10 years

pediatrics rotation during their first year and receive longitudinal advocacy training and experience during residency. Our residency program, in conjunction with our state AAP chapter, was awarded an AAP Healthy Active Living grant in 2011. This funding supported development of the ReadNPlay for a Bright Future initiative that forms the basis of advocacy work. Subsequent funding from the Tennessee Departments of Health and s Services, the AAP, Health Resources Services Agency (HRSA), and Ballad Health allowed expansion and dissemination of this program in the region. Residents have the opportunity to partner with community organizations to address issues including healthy eating, active living, injury prevention, early childhood literacy, and trauma and resilience. Residents are active participants in strategic planning meetings and activities of the regional STRONG Accountable Care Community (ACC), Safe Kids Northeast Tennessee, the Niswonger Children’s Hospital Children’s Resource Center, and the ETSU Child and Family Health Institute. Our residents’ leadership in advocacy was recognized nationally by the AAP in 2013 with an Anne E. Dyson Child Advocacy Award. In addition, a project funded by an AAP CATCH Resident Grant in 2015 for Improving outcomes in Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Northeast Tennessee was instrumental in building a new multidisciplinary clinical program called Baby Steps. This program was recently recognized by the AAP as a Promising Practice in the care of opioid-exposed newborns.

A unique clinical tool for enhancing counseling about healthy behaviors during well child visits in the first two years of life, developed through support of an AAP Healthy Active Living grant awarded to our residency program in 2012. ReadNPlay builds upon our clinic's ongoing Reach Out and Read initiative for early childhood literacy with a collection of books, support groups, and events with community partners for supporting healthy active living.

Starting in 2016, our ETSU Pediatrics Residency Program launched new global health opportunities for residents.

Current Opportunities:

• Global Health Topics are currently integrated into the Core Nelson’s Pediatric Lecture Schedule

• Current Global Health Elective Abroad Options:

-Haiti (St Damien Hospital Academic Collaborative)

-Ecuador (ETSU Timmy Global Health)

-Cambodia

-Belize (Body and Soul Ministries)

-Cambodia (Chenla Children’s Healthcare)

Several of our involved faculty have extensive experience and contacts in the field of global health and are available to advise interested residents in any of the elective sites noted above. Other sites for global health experiences are also being explored.

Option for an Intensive Global Health Elective:

This is a month long, US based elective with instruction in global health and tropical medicine, and designed to prepare residents for future international endeavors. The structure is a combination of lectures, journal article discussion, case based scenarios, lab based parasitology experience, ethics discussions, independent reading, and global health simulation experiences. Our planned global health simulation will include time at Project EARTH at Valleybrook learning lab in conjunction with the College of Public Health (http://www.etsu.edu/cph/earth.php)

Future Directions:

Multi-Disciplinary courses are available through several colleges within the ETSU family. In fall of 2017, ETSU launched an inter-disciplinary, online course titled “Global Healthcare: Disease Treatment & Prevention” taught by faculty from the college of medicine, pharmacy, public health, and nursing.

Additionally, this inter-disciplinary group is working to develop a formal certificate course in global health, which will be a combination of online learning, global health seminar sessions, and an international field experience.

For more information, please contact Varun Kumar, MD at KUMARV1@etsu.edu

Global Health

Salaries & Benefits

Salaries (2023-2024)

PGY-1: $58,084

PGY-2: $59,820

PGY-3: $61,960

Paid Leave

Paid leave includes 15 days of vacation, up to 12 sick days, and up to five educational days per year. There are also five administrative leave days during the entirety of the program to use for job or fellowship interviews.

Insurance

Residents are eligible for health, dental, vision, life, disability, and professional liability insurance. Premium costs are shared between the University and the Resident for health coverage for the resident and their family. Please visit https://www.etsu.edu/com/pediatrics/residency/benefits.php for coverage details.

Meals & Housing

Meal ID cards are provided to residents while on inpatient rotations and call shifts. Lunch is provided at most noon conferences. Overnight accommodations are available in the hospital for on-call residents.

Education & Licensing

All residents have an education fund to be used for meetings, books, journals, and other educational materials. Residents are encouraged to participate in research projects and are allotted up to $1500 for travel expenses to attend scientific meetings to present their work. Tennessee State Medical License Exemptions are paid by the department.

Other Benefits

Other benefits include Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics, Med Study Board Review Curriculum, monogrammed lab coat, American Academy of Pediatrics Membership, ETSU tuition discounts for children and spouse, and free membership to the Center for Physical Activity.

Curriculum

Morning Report

Monday & Friday (8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.)

Resident Conference Schedule

Tuesday and Wednesday (11 a.m.. - 1 p.m.)

• Swift Sesh

• Evidence-Based Medicine Journal Club

• Tele-mentoring Pediatric Outreach Program (TPOP)

• Team Based Learning

• Morbidity & Mortality

• Quality Improvement

• Rest & Reflect

• Inpatient Pediatrics

• Outpatient Pediatrics

• Research

• Ethics

• Simulation Lab

• Grand Rounds

• EHR Topics

• Population Health Topics

• Nelson Curriculum

• Nelson Exam Prep and Review

• Board Prep

Please visit our website for full descriptions of our conferences.

Conferences

Population:

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City in Tennessee

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2020 census

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