The pediatric hospital medicine division has nearly 4,000 patient admissions each year and takes care of a wide variety of patients, including an increasingly medically complex population. Because of the nature of our work, we collaborate frequently with other specialities, and often share patients with the ER, NICU, PICU and surgical services. Because of the high-volume of our complex patient service and our close relationship with the pediatric residents, we are often aware of--and frequently ...

The Pediatric Pulmonary Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement (MM&I) Conference offers an educational session and discussion forum to emphasize safe and high-quality patient care as part of the clinical care mission of the Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonary Medicine at VUMC. In this conference, we review patient cases or situations that occurred in the inpatient or outpatient settings and focus on systems-based problems. The conference includes representation from all f...

This meeting will employ both case presentation and panel discussion formats. Educational programming will include current concepts of diagnosis and treatment in head and neck medicine. New techniques and technology will be addressed, as well as outcomes of surgical techniques. Course faculty is comprised of internationally recognized experts in academic otolaryngology. This meeting will provide an environment conducive to free exchange of experience and the sharing of clinical outcomes with th...

Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement conference for the Pediatric Burn patient population. Discussion will also be had regarding current patients in the hospital as well as complex patients that are being followed in the outpatient setting.

To evaluate the care of a trauma patient from a clinical and systems perspective and to perform interdisciplinary implementation of improvement strategies. It is responsible for establishing objective criteria for identifying issues for review and determining compliance with standard of care. Recommendations and/or action plans with associated re-evaluation (if applicable) will be made when areas needing improvement are determined. Provide the structure and organization to promote performance im...

Monthly MMI meeting that goes over recent pediatric transplant cases, with lessons learned, practice changes, and corrective action planning.

Neonatology MMI Conference is offered monthly. Participants will engage in education on the value of obtaining post-mortem examination and improving patient outcomes. A variety of topics from researchers in several disciplines from across the VU and VUMC institutions will be covered.

Each session provides opportunities for pediatric anesthesiologists and pediatric anesthesia clinical staff to identify opportunities for improvement in recent cases. After participating in this CME activity, participants should be able to describe and discuss individual, practice, and system factors contributing to medical errors, complications, and sub-optimal outcomes in the care of pediatric anesthesia patients; review current practice to identify opportunities for improvement based on indiv...

Case based discussion of system wide clinical practice opportunities involving perioperative and medical case scenarios. Cases are presented, interactive discussion with attendees on opportunities and challenges, review of key practice recommendations on case based topic presented.

Regular conferences by experts in Hematology Oncology providing lectures on a variety of topics in oncology from basic sciences to clinical care.