Our residency program utilizes the “X+Y” rotation model, which uses an innovative scheduling structure with the following features and goals:

• It creates a flexible immersion experience in which all rotations are four weeks long followed by a two-week longitudinal experience.
• The four-week rotations allow for sustained focus on that area of pediatric medicine by minimizing outside afternoon obligations such as Continuity Clinic.
• The increased focus on a given rotation maximizes the ability of residents to build rapport, create stronger relationships among residents, nursing staff, patients and families, enhance patient ownership, decrease task switching and handoffs, and reduce job stress.
• It aims to bring these benefits from other nationally renowned programs to Wichita in order to provide our residents a more meaningful education which prepares them better for independent practice.