MED PEDS Additional Benefits

Each Resident will receive the most current editions of:

1. Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics

2. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine

3. Harriett Lane Handbook

4. Zitelli's Atlas of Physical Diagnosis

5. Smith's Recognizable Pattern of Human Malformations

In addition, each PGY1 resident receives $500 and all other levels, $1,000 per year for additional books and other educational resources or activities approved by the department.

Additional benefits include:

1. Annual subscription to PREP (Pediatrics in Review) with PREP questions

2. On-line access to Up-to-Date

3. 2 new lab coats the first year;  1 new lab coat every year thereafter (embroidered)

4. $1,000 per year towards one week of CME

Professional Dues:

1. American Academy of Pediatrics

2. American College of Physicians

The Combined program at Marshall University is highly integrated into three separate hospitals in addition to the Marshall University Medical Center Building. In spring of 2007 we opened the Byrd Clinical Center for internal medicine – cardiac services.

Cabell Huntington Hospital is contiguous with the Medical Center building and is the site for all inpatient pediatric activities as well as some internal medicine educational experiences. Cabell Huntington Hospital houses an 18 bed MICU, a 10 bed PICU, a 29 bed Level III NICU, and an 8 bed Burn ICU. A regional dialysis unit is also on the premises.

St. Mary's Hospital serves as an additional training site for internal medicine activities. It is also the site of the interventional cardiac catheterization lab as well as the cardiothoracic surgical service. It also houses a 10 bed MICU, a 10 bed SICU and a 10 bed Coronary Care Unit. Both hospitals serve as major regional referral tertiary care centers and bases of operation for Med-Com Emergency Medical Transportation Services which provide both ground and air transport for Eastern Kentucky, Southeastern Ohio, and Southern West Virginia.

The Veterans Affairs Medical Center serves as the site for internal medicine experiences in he Medical Intensive Care Unit and various consult services. The Huntington VAMC represents one of the first institutions to develop a completely automated, computer driven patient record keeping system. All labs, radiology and pathology reports, orders, progress notes, discharge summaries as well as admission history and physicals are kept in the computer. It is felt this represents and excellent educational experience for our residents in the area of medical informatics.

The Byrd Clinical Center has been developed as part of Marshall University's Robert C. Byrd Center for Rural Health. This site houses major new medical student teaching facilities and clinical education patient care clinics that enable the School of Medicine to increase the size of its medical school class over the next several years, making it possible for Marshall to increase the number of well-trained doctors practicing in southern West Virginia and surrounding areas.

The ground floor of the Byrd Clinical Center contains a state-of the-art medical education teaching facility, including a 125 seat tiered classroom, several smaller classrooms and student study and lounge areas. Most significantly, a “Clinical Skills Laboratory” is included where medical students and residents can develop and hone their patient care skills using both computer-based models and live simulated patients, before moving into the "live" patient care settings contained on the upper floors. Three floors of patient care and clinical education space above provide expanded patient care capacity for up to 75,000 patient visits per year. Services include both General Internal Medicine and medical specialties including Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary and Rheumatology. The School of Medicine's Hanshaw Geriatric Center has relocated to the new facility as well as its Chertow Diabetes Center. The top floor houses a “Heart Institute”, combining the resources of the School’s cardiology, pulmonary and cardio-thoracic surgery faculty to focus on a chronic disease that more frequently affects southern West Virginia and its aging population.