A four-year training program divided between medicine and pediatrics leading to eligibility for dual Board certification.
Program provides training equivalent to three years of residency in each discipline.
The goal of Bridgeport Hospital's Medicine-Pediatrics Primary Care Residency is to help each resident develop the skills and attitudes necessary for the practice of general internal medicine and pediatrics. The residency presents a balanced program that includes both inpatient and ambulatory experience and provides exposure to both general and subspecialty subjects. Because Med-Peds residents spend a sum of two years' time in each department, they become crucial members of the categorical Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residencies. The residents have an opportunity to integrate their disparate training experiences through their work in the combined Med-Peds Continuity Clinic where they act as primary care physicians for a group of patients for the four years of their residency. Continuity Clinic convenes one half day each week and close supervision is provided by Med-Peds trained attendings.