Third Year (PL3)
Senior residents have additional supervisory roles and further integrate knowledge and skills needed in general pediatric practice. Residents are offered approved electives during the third year as recommended by the ACGME. The residents obtain experience in care of healthy newborns and perinatology. The experiences in the third year include preventive medicine, community outreach and complex tertiary care. The program's curriculum focuses on the integration of clinical, psychosocial, behavioral, and developmental skills promulgated by a series of lectures, conferences, seminars and other educational activities that complement bedside teaching and the practical experience gained by the residents during clinical rotations.

Additional Educational Opportunities
Pediatric Simulation Lab
The Pediatric Simulation Lab is a new addition at Miami Children's Hospital. The Hospital has acquired a Human Patient Simulator (HPS) from METI™, called the PediaSim. The training program is run by a full-time simulation educator, under the direction of the Medical Education Department. Through this program, residents can be tested for mandatory competencies, practice difficult techniques and work with a team under emergent scenarios to test their skills, all without having to worry about harming the "patient." Residents may also become members of the Simulation Task Force at MCH and may offer to assist with the development of new and interesting scenarios.

Teaching Conferences
Miami Children's Hospital offers Continuing Medical Education (CME), weekly Grand Rounds presentations, professorial rounds and radiology rounds. In addition, MCH sponsors numerous Continuing Medical Education programs throughout the year, including the Annual Pediatric Postgraduate Course which has become an outstanding, world-recognized conference. These courses are a part of the residents' curriculum.

The Annual Pediatric Postgraduate Course is regarded as one of the most established independent CME programs in the country. The course aims to provide a state-of-the-art continuing medical education forum of general pediatrics and pediatric subspecialties to advance best clinical practices, latest research developments, and child advocacy. It is part of MCH's commitment to promoting worldwide the educational development of medical professionals serving children.

Faculty from all over the U.S. and the world are invited to participate and present the practicing pediatrician with the most recent advances that directly impact the practice of pediatrics. It is here that approximately 1,000 participants, including pediatric residents and fellows, are exposed to the world's foremost teachers who have proven ability to translate theoretical information to the practical level of day-to-day pediatric care.