The Department of Medicine is Albert Einstein Medical Center's largest and most comprehensive department. It offers medicine - pediatrics residents a rich array of educational opportunities in settings ranging from office practices to critical care units. A particularly important feature of the Einstein medical service is its firm system, which encompasses all of the teaching and patient care activities of the department. Firm System Medicine - pediatrics residents are assigned to a firm at the beginning of their training and remain on the firm throughout their training. Each firm is structured as a group practice, with shared responsibility for learning and patient care.
Firms have continuity of care responsibility for their outpatients and inpatients.
Firms encourage an interdisciplinary team approach to learning and patient care. Firms emphasize collegiality, mutual support, teamwork, and camaraderie. The Department of Pediatrics sponsors a wealth of innovative programs and research projects which reinforce its commitment to the medicine - pediatrics residency program. The full-time faculty in pediatrics is composed of both generalists and subspecialists in a mix that ensures an excellent educational environment as well as a diverse mix of patients. Research programs ranging in scope from developmental aspects of premature infants to vaccine development provide residents an opportunity to pursue their interests and acquire experience in research methodology.