Frequently Asked Questions

Pediatric otolaryngology fellows are assigned to be back up on-call from home every sixth night for six months. The fellows provide back up for the physician assistants who take the primary call. Primary call is shared by the pediatric ENT physician assistants and the rotating ENT residents. There is no primary call for the pediatric otolaryngology fellow. A call room is available. 

The pediatric otolaryngology fellow leads morning and evening rounds. An attending physician rounds with the team daily on all inpatient otolaryngology patients and new consults.

The pediatric otolaryngology fellow is the leader of the team that includes two to three residents, medical students and inpatient physician assistants. The team is responsible for the care of inpatients on the otolaryngology service, for providing consults to other services and the emergency room, and for assisting in the operative care of all patients. 

Bi-weekly, on a rotating basis, the fellows are assigned to be either primary operating room (OR) or clinic fellow. The OR fellow is expected to cover the OR cases, especially those cases that as identified as index cases for pediatric otolaryngology and serve as the “chief fellow” for the inpatient service. The primary daytime responsibility for the second fellow is to support the “chief fellow” with the general day-to day rounding/management of the inpatient service, while also participating in the otolaryngology specialty clinics. The second fellow also plays an active role in covering index cases, as on many occasions where there are more than one pediatric ENT index case occurring in the OR at the same time. The second fellow will have one day/week dedicated for research.

We have a comprehensive educational didactic program in the fellowship year. The didactic lectures take place on Thursday mornings at 7:30 a.m. The topics were these lectures were updated in July of 2019 and contain topics proposed in the curriculum for complex pediatric otolaryngology as defined by the American Board of Otolaryngology. These topics were also agreed to be topics essential to the training of subspecialty residents (fellows) by the Education Committee of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ASPO). Monthly radiology conferences, quarterly pathology conferences and quarterly quality improvement conferences are included in the Thursday didactic schedule. 

Other educational activities include:

• Monthly Morbidity and Mortality Conference
• Monthly Cochlear Implant Team Meeting
• Bimonthly Journal Club
• Quarterly Airway Conference
• Quarterly Airway Simulation Lab
• Monthly Vascular Clinic

The pediatric otolaryngology fellow has the responsibility to educate medical students from the GW School of Medicine & Health Sciences and otolaryngology residents from the GW School of Medicine & Health Sciences, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and National Capital Consortium otolaryngology residency programs rotating through the pediatric otolaryngology service in both the clinic and operating room setting. The fellow assigns the medical students day-to-day to either clinic or operating room attendance, to patients on the ward and to guide reading during the rotation. The fellow participates in medical student evaluations. Finally, the fellow assists and guides the students and residents in preparing 15-minute presentations on an interesting patient related topic, which is given by the student or resident at the monthly department meeting.

Moonlighting is not currently allowed.

• Health, dental and vision
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Annual and sick leave
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Backup child and elder care