Back to top Outpatient Experiences One of the major goals of the newly integrated Atlantic Health System Pediatric Residency Program involves strengthening and expanding general pediatric outpatient, and acute illness care. The residency program's outpatient experiences are diversified, with rotations in different pediatric settings. The ACES are busy private practice offices where residents have continuity care experiences, as well as ambulatory block month rotations. This experience provides residents with a unique exposure to a private pediatric practice outside an academic setting. Pediatric UrgiCare is an after-hours program covering night and weekend acute pediatric problems.
Residents receive extensive exposure to phone triage with a general pediatrician as a mentor.
Telephone triage management is discussed, and residents evaluate all patients who require further history, physical examinations and assessment. The newly opened Family Health Center in Morristown, created by a merger of Morristown Memorial's pediatric primary care clinic and the Town of Morristown's Health Department Clinic, provides an additional setting for pediatric residents to enhance their ambulatory care skills. The Center implements a new concept in primary care delivery and access. Morristown Memorial Hospital, a regional trauma center, one of only nine in New Jersey is expanding its services to include a separate 10 bed Pediatric Emergency Department under the guidance of a nationally recognized director. This affords the residents a unique learning opportunity in emergency medicine.