Pediatric Residency

Program Overview

Thank you for your interest in the Pediatric Residency Program at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children! We are proud of our long-standing tradition of training master clinicians and promoting academic success. Our pediatric residents learn primarily through supervised patient care in our urban, academic tertiary care center in both the outpatient setting and on inpatient units throughout the hospital's many sections.

Education

A unique strength of our program is our attention to developing skills in education. In addition to regular resident conferences, we provide a longitudinal seminar series to introduce educational and leadership topics to the developing professional, poising our graduates for success in both academic and community settings. Senior residents spend a full month learning about and practicing their role as educators in a mentored rotation. Residents employ the skills learned in these conferences and seminars as they work closely with students from Drexel University College of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, and others.

Advocacy

The "heart" of the St. Chris residency is advocacy. Working closely with community and national organizations, themes of advocacy are threaded throughout each of the hospital settings. Interns participate in a month-long advocacy rotation that takes them all around Philadelphia, immersing them in the patient experience and opening their eyes to their community partners outside of the hospital walls.

Scholarships

We believe that scholarship is the dissemination of information and best practices, and support our residents in developing experiences not only in traditional bench or clinical research, but also in educational, quality improvement, or advocacy-related projects during their time with us. Residents present their scholarly work to our hospital community in locally sponsored research days and to regional or national meetings as they are invited.

Pathways

Building on a carefully designed curriculum in general pediatrics, second-year residents select from one of three "pathways" which allow for a personalized and focused approach to the completion of their residency experience.

• Primary Care Pathway - designed to address the needs of residents planning to enter a career in outpatient general pediatrics
• Inpatient Pathway - provides experiences in inpatient medicine for those pursuing hospital-based careers, such as hospital medicine, critical care, emergency medicine, or neonatology
• Consultative Pathway - serves the needs of residents who foresee a career that will have both outpatient and inpatient components (for example, those pursuing a subspecialty fellowship), as well as residents who remain undecided on a career path