A component of the Postgraduate Course is the Annual Board Review Course. This program is designed as a comprehensive review for pediatricians who are preparing for the American Board of Pediatrics certification or recertification examination. Third year residents are required to attend the course in addition to attending weekly review sessions (that are required all three years of training). This approach is one of the factors contributing to the high scores received by MCH residents on the American Board of Pediatrics Intraining Examinations and high passing rates on the board exams. In fact, of the 2002 graduates, 100 percent who took the Pediatric Board Exam passed on their first attempt.

The hospital also sponsors the Annual Postgraduate Child Neurology Course and the Annual Childhood Cancer Treatment Seminar in cooperation with the Florida Association of Pediatric Tumor programs. In all, the hospital sponsors six CME activities throughout the year.


To further disseminate the latest breakthroughs in pediatrics, the hospital publishes its own medical journal. International Pediatrics is distributed to pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists in more than 20 countries and includes articles on current medical topics aimed at enhancing pediatric medical practice. Residents are expected and encouraged to publish their clinical experiences in the journal.

Research
Residents are encouraged to participate in research protocols and publish papers or present abstracts during their training program. The Miami Children's Hospital Clinical Research Center provides the infrastructure and services necessary for the hospital's clinical and translational research activities. While Miami Children's Hospital is devoted to healing young patients, it is also working to make the future brighter for children with medical problems.

By pursuing over 200 innovative research projects, a diversified team of scientists, physicians and other healthcare professionals at Miami Children's Hospital Clinical Research Center are seeing breakthroughs in diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cure of childhood diseases. There are active translational research programs including alternative medicine. Clinical research studies, which test new diagnostic procedures, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biologics and interventional procedures, as well as outcomes research, occur throughout Miami Children's Hospital, and are conducted by the MCH Clinical Research Center. Departments that are especially active in clinical research include radiology, cardiology, neurosciences, nephrology, and hematology-oncology. Miami Children's Hospital is also a full member of the Children's Oncology Group, a federally-funded consortium of pediatric hospitals and pediatric departments conducting a large array of clinical research studies to advance treatment of childhood cancers.