The categorical pediatric program emphasizes the skills, knowledge, and preparatory work necessary to excel - both within residency and beyond. Our curriculum provides a comprehensive education that prepares residents for careers in primary care, hospitalist medicine, clinical research, or subspecialty pediatrics. Individualized, career-focused curriculum is developed with increasing elective time over the course of residency, including elective time during intern year. Resident autonomy is fostered throughout residency, with graduating senior residents fully prepared to enter the next phase of their career.

Our “X+Y” curriculum (3 weeks traditional rotation + 1 ambulatory week) allows for a guaranteed week of outpatient and academic experience each month, while preserving time during the rest of the month for dedicated inpatient or elective experiences. During this “Y” week, residents spend 4-5 half days in their longitudinal outpatient experience (LOE) or continuity clinic. Other longitudinal experiences make up the remainder of the time during Y weeks, including courses on advocacy, adolescent medicine, behavior and development, subspecialty pediatrics, and individual or small group work on quality improvement or research.

Curriculum highlights

• Elective time throughout all three years of residency.
• Intern experience in the PICU
• 2nd year residents act as senior residents for two unique teams - one team composed of 2nd year medical students and the other team composed of 1st year family medicine residents.
• 3rd year residents rotate through the role of Admitting Resident, who protects the inpatient teams from admissions during rounds.
• Residents have the opportunity to rotate at community hospitals, rural clinics, and international settings.

Customized Educational Experiences

Our program provides numerous flexible opportunities to fulfill your career objectives. We take each individual’s goals and interests into account when creating customized schedules that support these objectives while meeting ACGME and program requirements.

Because we recognize that career goals may change as you move through residency training, our flexible schedules enable residents to select from a variety of electives to further customize their education.  More than 30 different elective rotations are currently available to the residents in our program.  Examples include:  a variety of surgical subspecialties and medical subspecialties, additional ICU time, radiology, rural pediatrics, writing/medical humanities, and many others. Many of these electives are available longitudinally. Additional certifications are available, including lactation, medical spanish, HEART, and Global/Rural and Underserved Health.