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Pediatrics Department Home Page | More about the Pediatrics Residency Program IntroductionThe Department of Pediatrics offers a three-year residency training program leading to eligibility for certification by the American Board of Pediatrics. The fully accredited three-year program has sixteen resident positions available at each year level. First-year positions are filled exclusively through the National Residency Matching Program. If openings are available for second and third year residency positions, candidates are considered who have successfully completed appropriate post-graduate training in another accredited pediatric program. General DescriptionThe program gives new physicians a firm foundation in pediatrics for general practice or further training in a subspecialty. The program provides broad experience in general pediatrics, as well as exposure to a complete range of pediatric subspecialties. These include adolescent medicine, allergy/ immunology, ambulatory care, anesthesiology, cardiology, developmental disabilities, emergency medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology/ nutrition, hematology/ oncology, infectious diseases, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, physical and rehabilitative medicine, psychiatry/ behavioral sciences, pulmonology, radiology, rheumatology, surgery, and urology. The Department of Pediatrics is headquartered at the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, a free-standing children's hospital with 186 beds. It is the regional pediatric referral center for coastal Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. More than 5,900 children are treated as inpatients and nearly 99,000 as outpatients, the emergency center the only dedicated pediatric emergency center in the state, treats 43,000 children a year. The department's faculty are involved in research locally, nationally, and internationally. The Children's Hospital/Eastern Virginia Medical School Center for Pediatric Research has attracted nationally renowned physicians who conduct clinical and basic research in such areas as breast milk nutrition, immunizations, infectious diseases, informatics, neonatology, and epidemiology. CurriculumThe first year of residency provides a comprehensive experience in both inpatient and ambulatory pediatrics, emphasizing child growth and development while helping the resident to master diagnostic and technical skills and develop sound strategies for the care of sick infants, children, and adolescents. The first-year resident is the primary care physician for pediatric medical patients at Children's Hospital. The second year of training provides an opportunity for residents to improve clinical skills, assume increasing levels of responsibility for patient care, and develop new skills in pediatric subspecialties. During the third year, residents assume maximum responsibility for patient care and undertake supervision and teaching duties for junior residents and medical students. Much of the year is devoted to electives and a program tailored to meet the needs of the individual resident. During all three years at Children's Hospital, residents attend continuity care clinics one half-day per week under the supervision of the pediatrics ambulatory medicine faculty and community pediatricians. Residents assume responsibility for the care of a group of children representing a wide spectrum of pediatric diseases and problems. The principles of child development, behavioral pediatrics, and practice management are reinforced. For more information, contact:
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