Pediatric consults with a collegial pulse.
Virtual Curbside is a pediatric education show built around collegial consults with subspecialists. Its conversations move from clinic-level uncertainty to practical next steps on psychiatric questions, poisoning, nutrition, leadership, and neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.
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Virtual Curbside is a pediatric education podcast shaped like the curbside consults clinicians already rely on. It is produced by the Utah Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and its recent episodes carry a strong sense of professional community. Paul Workus speaks with subspecialists and colleagues about problems that sit directly in pediatric practice. The show is practical first. A psychiatric grab bag with Jeremy Kendrick looks at risk assessment, panic disorder, peer consultation, and the call-up program as a way to get fresh ears on tough cases. The conversations do not pretend that familiarity with a family equals subspecialty expertise. That humility is part of the point. Poison control episodes with Mike Moss move through prevention, accidental dosing, self-harm exposures, toddlers getting into hazards, and button battery ingestion. The Q&A format lets listener questions shape the clinical emphasis. Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome episodes with Camille Fung bring attention to language, physiology, family involvement, Eat Sleep Console, and the uncertain long-term questions clinicians still follow. Those discussions are careful and measured. They acknowledge the complexity of substance exposure without flattening families into stereotypes. Nutrition and eating disorder episodes with Megan Jensen and Nicole Holland focus on healthy eating, red flags, family conversations, and the difficulty of predicting who will struggle. Angelo Giardino’s book club conversations add a leadership thread, including reflections on humility, ambition, self-awareness, and doing good work without making the work all about the clinician. Across topics, the show’s rhythm is warm, professional, and lightly humorous. It asks direct questions. It checks disclosures. It keeps returning to what pediatric providers can actually do next. Virtual Curbside suits clinicians who want education that feels close to practice, grounded in subspecialty conversation, and honest about the limits of any one provider’s knowledge.
Made for: Pediatric providers, trainees, and child-focused clinicians who want practical subspecialty conversations tied to real clinic questions. It also suits healthcare leaders interested in pediatric community, prevention, and family-centered care.
What sets it apart: The show feels less like a formal lecture and more like a thoughtful consult between colleagues. Its strength is the mix of clinical specificity, humility about practice gaps, and recurring attention to how pediatricians talk with families.
For Pediatricians. By Pediatricians. Available Anywhere. Curbside consults in podcast form.
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A grounded look at Eat Sleep Console, parent involvement, and the still-open question of long-term outcomes.
Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome gets a clearer vocabulary and a practical care-model rethink in this conversation with Camille Fung. Paul Workus and Fung trace the shift away from "abstinent syndrome" and toward Eat Sleep Console, then carry the discussion into the well-baby…
A clear look at why similar opioid exposure can lead to very different withdrawal in babies.
Camille Fung treats opioid exposure during pregnancy as a field of variables, not a neat dose-and-response equation. She follows the path from maternal dose, duration, and clearance through placental and fetal metabolism, showing why the amount that reaches a fetus remains…
A practical guide to helping children in pain build steadier progress between overdoing it and shutting down.
Pain management comes through here as a slow return to function, with Professor Deedee Kaplan framing care across physical, functional, social, environmental, psychological, and cognitive behavioral domains.
Reported stories of responsibility and its consequences.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Host Paul Workus welcomes pediatric urologist Glenn Lau back for a Q&A session on common urology issues.
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Pediatric providers discuss celiac disease with a specialist, answering audience questions about diagnosis and management.
This episode discusses the diagnosis of OCD in pediatric patients, featuring an interview with expert Christy Kleinschmidt.
Professor Deedee Kaplan returns to The Virtual Curbside for the third week discussing pediatric pain management.
Paul Workus and Angelo Giardino revisit Stephen Covey's 1989 book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, for Utah pediatric professionals.
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Pediatric host Paul and child psychiatrist Jeremy Kendrick discuss a psychiatric grab bag, starting with risk assessment, to address gaps in pediatric practice.
Paul and Angelo discuss the book 'Humbitious' by Amir Qaisi, exploring how the blend of humility and ambition applies to pediatric leadership.
The Virtual Curbside episode “#87-4 Poison Control: Q & A” examines button-battery ingestion, adolescent social-media challenges, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, Tide Pods, and solvent exposures.
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Camille Fung, an associate professor of neonatology at the University of Utah, explains how neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome differs from the older term neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Pediatric providers discuss how to talk with kids and families about nutrition resources and identify red flags for eating disorders.
Pediatric providers discuss the resurgence of measles and its clinical implications.