Region 1 PEHSU Pediatric Environmental Health Fellowship Training Program

Training Program Director: Alan Woolf, MD, MPH, FAACT, FAAP, FACMT
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Primary Site: Boston Children’s Hospital
Secondary Sites: Boston Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Public Health
Massachusetts/Rhode Island Poison Control Center
The Cambridge Hospital
Slone Epidemiology Unit, Boston University
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Applied Health Sciences
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
ATSDR & EPA – Region 1

Key to Abbreviations
ATSDR – Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry
BMC – Boston Medical Center (formerly Boston City Hospital)
EPA – Environmental Protection Agency
HMS – Harvard Medical School
HSPH – Harvard School of Public Health
PEH – Pediatric Environmental Health
PEHC – Pediatric Environmental Health Center @ Children’s Hospital, Boston
SEU – Slone Epidemiology Unit, Boston University
TCH – The Children’s Hospital, Boston

EVALUATION

Fellows meet regularly with Dr. Woolf or Dr. Goldman to receive individual feedback and to self-reflect on their strengths and areas for improvement. At these meetings fellows are encouraged to set learning goals. Specifically, fellows are asked to review the ACGME competencies 1-2 times per year and reflect on whether or not they believe that they are competent in these areas and in which areas they need additional exposure/experience.

The CHB Office of Faculty Development has published guidelines for Mentoring and Developmental Networks (www.childrenshospital.org/research/ofd) and runs an annual HMS course on Mentoring.

Fellows complete the 8 modules in the on-line Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School for Health Professions. These modules were selected jointly by the Program for Patient Safety and Quality’s Education Committee and the GME Committee. The themes of the modules are human factors in complex systems, medical errors, and patient harm, communication among individuals and teams and adverse event reporting and systems improvement. Complete of the modules over the resident’s course of training is monitored by the Office of GME and reported back to the program.

As part of a hospital-wide initiative to implement a standardized approach to communication, Children’s Hospital Boston has launched the Clarity in Communication program. This workshop provides training to clinicians, including faculty and house staff, in three methods of communication that were identified by hospital leadership as most appropriate for our environment.

Every [patient interaction is an exercise in carrying out professional responsibilities and adhering to ethical principles. Faculty and clinical support staff make sure that residents are successful in feeling supported to achieve these standards. It is expected that faculty and fellows demonstrate and promote professional behavior. The hospital has a policy entitled: “Expectations of

Attending Physicians.” This policy is given to all trainees and attending physicians as part of their credentialing and details expectations of professional behavior for physicians at Children’s Hospital Boston. Such professional behavior is modeled every day by its fellows and faculty, nursing and clinical administrative leadership.

Daily Conferences & Seminars – Pediatric Environmental Health

Fellows’ development seminar series schedule:

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