It's fall! It’s time for Nebraska football and consuming lots of chili – and we have officially entered recruitment season for our residency and fellowship programs. This year, all of our recruitment efforts are virtual, with interviews being conducted via Zoom. I want to thank the many faculty and staff who are taking part in this effort. I know that you are all doing everything in your power to help our candidates get a sense of the commitment to education, the camaraderie among our trainees, faculty, and staff, and the breadth of clinical experiences they are afforded here while conducting interviews entirely virtually.
As part of their virtual recruitment efforts, I want to highlight the high-quality video tours that visually explore each of our programs, as well as give details about the expansion of our hospital with the Hubbard Tower construction. The video productions were made possible by both Children's and UNMC production teams, and truly help bring our clinical environment and program opportunities to life. I'm attaching the links below if you haven't had a chance to check them out!
In addition, I want to encourage you all to continue the great work you do in mentoring and advising our UNMC and Creighton students. Working with and among all of you in our Omaha medical schools, we have over 30 students expressing an interest in either pediatrics or med-peds. They are also navigating through the interview season virtually and may need some additional reassurances and guidance along the way.
Although the pandemic continues to challenge us in many ways, please keep up your efforts to support, advise and mentor the next generation of pediatricians. I'm hopeful that one day, some of our current students and residents will be our faculty colleagues here at UNMC!
Thank you,
Kari
