School of Medicine

Department of Pediatrics

Educational Activities and Conferences

1.      Morning reports are held four days per week in the hospital from 8-9 am.  Case-based presentations are given by residents and chief residents on common pediatric problems.  In addition, morning reports may be a jeopardy-style medical-knowledge game, medical trivia game, evidence-medicine based presentations by upper level residents, quality improvement projects by resident teams, and night float-run morning reports.  Grand Rounds occur every Wednesday morning and include presentations by LSU faculty, visiting faculty, or upper level pediatrics and medicine-pediatrics residents. 

2.       Noon conferences are held daily in the hospital from 12-1 pm.  Monthly themes (i.e. Renal, Cardiology, Neonatology, etc.) are chosen and presentations given by faculty members and fellows from the appropriate department. 

3.       Morbidity and Mortality conferences are held quarterly.  These are multidisciplinary conferences run by faculty, fellows, and residents.

4.       Ethics conferences are held quarterly.  These are multidisciplinary conferences run by faculty, fellows and residents.  Specific ethical questions are considered by the group and interactive, group-response systems are employed to discuss medical ethics.

5.       Pediatrics Board Review is held monthly and run by the chief residents.  Categorical pediatric and medicine/pediatric residents read Pediatric in Review articles on a given topic throughout the month in preparation for a 1.5 hour board review session with practice question and group interaction to review AAP Board Specs relevant to the given topic and readings.