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Pediatric Rotations 

In your first year, you spend one month in general pediatrics and one month in neonatal intensive care at nearby Saint Francis Medical Center, supervised by its pediatric faculty members from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. You spend your second year rotations on Methodist Medical Center's general pediatrics unit and fulfill one month of outpatient pediatrics in your third year.

The skills you learn during your rotations in pediatrics include:

• newborn resuscitation
• intubation
• lumbar puncture
• umbilical artery and vein catheter insertion
• newborn enteral nutrition
• management of infants on ventilators
• exchange transfusions
• phototherapy
• dehydration management
• suprapubic bladder aspiration
• arterial catheter insertion
• chest tube insertion

Also, you are involved in the management of serious pediatric illnesses such as streptococcal glomerulonephritis and congenital heart disease, as well as their complications.  A wide variety of pediatric sub-specialists practice in Peoria, including pediatric pulmonology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, cardiology, neurology, surgery, and urology.  St. Francis Medical Center is home to the Children's Hospital and Methodist Medical Center is the local affiliate of St. Jude's Research Hospital.