Our training program is open and friendly, providing an atmosphere where housestaff and faculty interact at a level that promotes rapid professional growth.  The faculty make themselves readily available for consultation and informal discussion of patient-related problems.  Regularly scheduled conferences are presented in an open and non-threatening atmosphere optimal for learning and promoting communication between housestaff, faculty and community pediatricians. 

We believe that learning is best accomplished through:

• Hands-on experience
• Warm, supportive working and learning environment
• Progressive responsibility for taking care of patients and their families
• Progressive responsibility for teaching families, students and fellow residents
• High quality and readily available contact with faculty
• Establishing primary care relationships with patients and their families
• Interactive and structured conferences

We have 9 residency positions for each year level in the Pediatric Residency Program. In addition, there are 2 positions for each year level in the Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program. Therefore, there is a peer group of 11 for each year level. This number provides for a good mix of abilities, talents and personalities as well as making it possible to get to know each other well. A fourth year chief resident is selected on the basis of outstanding ability in patient care, teaching and leadership.  The chief resident supervises the pediatric housestaff inpatient care and organizes pediatric conferences as well as participating in residency administration.

The MISSION STATEMENT of our residency program is:

...to provide resident physicians a foundation for dedicated service to children,
proficiency in comprehensive pediatric health care, and development of
life-long learning skills.