Joseph Campus and the Veterans Administration Medical and Regional Office Center. Inpatient services in the Wichita programs take place in these hospitals. All of the approximately 50 faculty members are practicing primary care or subspecialty pediatricians. Because the teaching staff has trained in various programs across the United States, you are exposed to a variety of approaches to pediatric medicine. Our principal goal is to adequately teach the house staff the proper techniques and methods of diagnosis and treatment of sick children, and to instruct them in preventive medicine for children and adolescents.
Additional goals are to provide medical leadership and advocacy in the community and the state.
The primary outpatient department of the pediatric program is located at Wesley Medical Center and is under the direction of the Director of Ambulatory Pediatrics, a full-time faculty member. As a resident you will function as a relatively independent pediatrician working with your colleagues in the group. Well-child care, health maintenance visits and acute care visits are accomplished in the clinic setting, which is comparable to a private practice. Each resident spends one-half day in the outpatient clinic each week for the first six months of residency. For the remaining months, two one-half day sessions per week are scheduled.