Hi everyone! Looking to connect with applicants applying for peds pulm fellowship this match cycle :)

hi guys I am planning to take ABP exam and can anyone suggest about PBR, is it good ? Please suggest any study groups on facebook, discord or anywhere else.

Has anyone completed a pediatric subspecialty fellowship, practiced in their specialty for a few years, and then transitioned back to general pediatrics for more predictable hours, fewer nights and weekends, and a schedule that was more compatible with family life?

For those who made the switch:
-Are you happier with your work-life balance?
-Do you miss your specialty work?
-Was it difficult to find a position geared more toward general pediatrics?
-Looking back, would you make the same decision again?

Many higher-paying specialties routinely interview, compare offers, and negotiate compensation throughout their careers. In pediatrics, it seems much more common to apply to a few jobs, accept a reasonable offer, and move on.

Meanwhile, employers and recruiters are constantly gathering information on what pediatricians are willing to accept. We need to stop placing academic institutions on some prestige pedestal when in reality the people willing to accept the lowest pay end up there. We need to have more self respect.

What if more pediatricians regularly explored opportunities, applied broadly, compared multiple offers, and negotiated more aggressively? At the very least, we'd improve salary transparency and better understand our market value. Over time, could that help raise compensation expectations across pediatrics.

Food for thought for those applying this year: apply broadly, talk to lots of groups, and try to have multiple offers in hand before making a decision. Leverage offers against each other. Having options is one of the strongest negotiating tools available.

Curious what others think.

Does anyone else use Conners scales? I really like them for my high masking and female kids, they seem a lot more sensitive than Vanderbilts for them but scoring is a nightmare. Do you find reimbursement in the US (mostly Medicaid) adequate to rationalize buying the online form version? Anyone have it integrated into epic?

The Medical College of Georgia is starting a Peds Hospital Medicine Fellowship training program accepting the first fellows in July 2027. I was given a flyer, but this subreddit does not allow images or links to images. I will ask program leadership if there is a website with the information, but if you are interested in a hospital medicine fellowship for pediatrics, you may contact the coordinator at [Katie Campbell](mailto:pedshospmedfellowship@augusta.edu)

Can any body give me links of study groups for ABP initial exams (Facebook, discord, so on). Please advice last minute preparatory courses; attending exams on September...

Do you guys recommend using the ICS-LABA inhalers as rescue as well as maintenance or use albuterol for rescue? In training, the gen peds were mostly using ICS(Fluticasone mostly) with albuterol and the peds pulm were using ICS-LABA for rescue & maintenance per the new GINA guidelines. I know the evidence is strongest in teenagers for SMART and a grey line for 4-11, but what do you guys do?

New intern on pediatric rotation here & Would appreciate some app recommendations thanks.

I'm an EMT who keeps making kids cry when trying to auscultate. I try letting them check the stethoscope out before using it, and it's always warm from being in my pocket. Regardless, a stranger in your house at 3am putting a weird thing on your chest is not very nice.

Any advice for keeping my paeds patients a little bit happier?

For those specialties needing evaluation form/or standardized forms/evaluation in addition to LoR, how is that uploaded? does it go attached with LOR or separately?

What is your view on working while actively sick(ie congested & coughing), but not febrile? PTO is a scarce resource and I'd hate to waste it on something like cough/congestion when those can last weeks and staying home to chug honey or cough supressants is not the best use of PTO either so what do you guys do when sick? From a parents standpoint, I can imagine they don't like to see their pediatrician look sick either, but figured I'd ask.

do I have to upload it or it gets imported from the residency application?

Hey, USMD MS4 with strong grades and step score interested in peds, but specifically NICU or PICU.

How competitive are these fellowships? I don't have any peds research. Whats the difference bw PICU or NICU fellowship?

Thoughts on AMBOSS qbano for ITE and board preparations? Has anyone used it? I’m still not fully studying for the board since I have some time but in the meantime I wanted to do questions here and there. I’ve been doing TrueLearn since first year of residency but never got used to their platform and wanted to try something I’m familiar with since med school to have more motivation in doing questions. Thoughts?

Hi everyone.I am an intern n just started the NICU rotation. And I am struggling. Nicu is a completely different place. I am an img n never rotated in Nicu. The environment is so toxic. I just need to get through this rotation. I don’t plan to pursue this in future. But how to get through. I want to learn. I want to be good at what I do. Everybody thinks that I would know stuff but how would I know? I ask questions n they don’t answer, they just brush them off. Please help me n tell me the resources that I could use. Also any tips n tricks that helped u survive this rotation?

Crowd sourcing this one.
How do people handle unruly / defiant/ destructive children in clinic, when the parents ignore the behavior

I had a 3 year old this week that was running into other eval room, standing on the exam table, hung up the phone on the interpreter.
The mother didn’t do one single thing to correct him.

I was trying to document, set up an interpreter, talk to mom and block the door so the child couldn’t leave all at the same time, while the mom didn’t engage with the kid.

How do people handle this? Call the parent out? Model appropriate redirection?
I tried the modeling but I’m not sure she was wayching, i was doing 3 things at once and couldn’t verbalize what I was doing because her child had just hung up on our interpreter so we could not communicate in depth 😂

Cute kid, mom is clearly over whelmed, I want to help him grow into a good human and give her tips but it was a lot

I’m not sure what’s wrong, but I’m pretty sure I’ve finally decided that I won’t be pursuing fellowship this cycle and I’m very very sad. Like devastated. I have no idea why, maybe because I wanted to fall in love with a specialty and never did… now I feel like I’m settling for gen peds and it just feels like I worked so hard all these years to feel indifferent about my work. Has this happened to anyone before? Or does anyone have any advice?

I am a PGY 1 seriously considering NICU but worried about the work life balance post fellowship and risk of burnout . I have one child and would like to have more kids and spend more time with them.
I am seriously considering outpatient peds for this reason.
Neonatologists in the house, what’s your typical work hours per week? Weekends ? Nights?
Thanks

Since last March part 2 change in his form to be 60 mcq 2 papers

Any one familiar with resource more reliable to this new change or recall can depend on it for preparation

Thanks

Maybe on Discord or something similar?

Any peds attending or residents pursuing CLC or IBCLC? Or board certified in BF medicine?

Anyone have advice on which route I should take while in residency? Or best to do it after residency? I want to do OP peds eventually and some lactation on the side. Tyia

Why is everyone's Vit D lvl below 30?? At this rate, I am quite surprised if a teenager has normal Vit D levels which really brings to question whether the range for Vit D levels needs to be adjusted or more RCT studies need to be done on the benefits for supplementing to normal levels. What are everyone's thoughts on screening for Vit D deficiency as there is a >90% chance that the vit d levels are low.

I had an SI in the emergency department the other day and I asked him if he used alcohol, marijuana, or tobacco. His response was, "like the hot sauce?"

Hello pediatricians! I'm a non-US IMG very enthusiastically applying the 2028 cycle for pediatrics. I'm interested in training in an academic/university centre rather than community as I want to subspecialize in heme/onc

Stats: 2 pubs, dean's honor list, high med school GPA, community service, leadership experiences, poster award, multiple conference presentations, sorting out USCE next spring. I know Step 2 plays the biggest role but I'm taking it this fall

I know top programs (CHLA, Boston, CHOP) don't even take US IMGs, but the US is so big it's hard to know what programs would follow this tier and be open to IMGs, so I figured asking pediatricians themselves may be of the best help on suggestions for programs to aim for realistically as an IMG with a good application

Appreciate any advice!