Holiday Hours

With the exception of Inova hospitals, Inova Emergency Care and Inova-GoHealth Urgent Care, all Inova outpatient offices will be closed for the Christmas and New Year's Day holidays – Wednesday, Dec. 25 and Wednesday, Jan. 1.

Some Inova care sites have additional closures for the holidays, which will be noted on the relevant location pages. 

Aline Baghdassarian, MDAline Baghdassarian, MD, MPH, FAAP
Program Director
The Altieri Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship

 

Thank you for your interest in the Altieri Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship program at Inova L.J. Murphy Children's Hospital.

Our program's goals align with the Inova Mission statement to "provide world-class healthcare – every time, every touch – to each person in every community we have the privilege to serve."

We provide our learners with the individual support and environment necessary to achieve their full potential and develop their academic interests, hone their skills in education, research and leadership.

We foster a collegiate and positive work environment, where fellows are an integral part of the Emergency Department team. We emphasize the quality of our patient care and experience just as we prioritize the wellness of our team members.

Located 15 miles from downtown Washington, DC, we have the privilege to serve a culturally and socioeconomically diverse spectrum of patients from across the globe.

We consider it a privilege to contribute to your training and educational journey. We believe that adult learners are self-directed and motivated. It’s our responsibility to be the catalyst to help you achieve your goals. We greatly value teams and teamwork and look forward to having you join ours. We hope you will continue to explore the various opportunities that we offer our fellows and learn about life in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.

During these unprecedented times, we’re committed to your safety and that of our team members. For this reason, our interview process will be carried out virtually. We understand that this will be a challenge, for this reason, we will do our best to be available to you for questions and clarifications, should those be needed to supplement the information we share with you.

Sincerely,

Aline Baghdassarian, MD, MPH, FAAP
Program Director

“From a curriculum standpoint, the advanced digital electronic and traditional modalities gave me the extra edge with respect to my knowledge base and ability to learn and teach effectively."
“Coming from an emergency medicine background, I had different educational needs than the majority of fellows that come from a pediatrics background. The EM specific curriculum, and the adjustments we made to the curriculum based on my personal experience and knowledge gaps coming out of residency meant that rotations outside the ED were as relevant and useful as possible."
“I received support for any endeavour in setting up electives that were not traditional to the curriculum, and as a result, felt that my personal goals were valued and fostered. Most importantly, I still miss my INOVA family and am grateful for the lifetime relationships that I developed there."
"Since graduating from fellowship I have been in a hybrid academic/community Pediatric Emergency Room. At Inova, coming from a Peds residency, I was ecstatic about the varied backgrounds of our PEM attendings from both Gen Peds and Gen EM backgrounds. This allowed me to tap into each of their fortes, whether as simple as navigating difficult parents to doing more invasive procedures. This made for bedside learning that I have not seen replicated at any institution that I've come thru since."
"In the ED, I worked with attendings who had taken every different route to PEM, and were very flexible in helping me meet my educational needs."
"Team based learning, and the significant level of involvement fellows had in our educational conferences have made me a more efficient and flexible educator. Tonight, I am putting together a "one pager" for the fellows I work with in my new position, something I never thought I would have done if you asked me 2 years ago!"
"The high expectation for involvement in creating educational materials and presentations for our conferences was a significant time commitment. I was definitely forced out of my comfort zone at times."
"The fellowship training goes far beyond the standard core curriculum and truly aims to instill its fellows with the clinical expertise, analytical thinking capability, and leadership skills to practice in any environment. I personally found the greatest benefit with regards to maturing as a leader both in the clinical setting as well as academics."
"The fellow-driven and faculty supported conference curriculum centers around a flipped classroom model whereby each fellow contributes to the education of their peers as well as faculty, residents and medical students. This is perhaps most evident in the robust medical simulation sessions which occur in our newly designed, high-fidelity simulation center. It is by participating in and ultimately leading and designing these scenarios that I have gained confidence in leading my clinical team in critical resuscitation in the department as an attending."
"This program is ideally suited for well-rounded and self-motivated individuals seeking a rigorous but high-caliber academic experience."

Program videos

video thumbnail
Inova L.J. Murphy Children's Hospital
video thumbnail
Graduate Medical Education at Inova
video thumbnail
Altieri PEM Fellowship - Welcome and highlights