Children admitted to Doernbecher Children's Hospital are cared for by two teams. The other team cares for the patients of the OHSU Health Care System. Problems manifested represent the full spectrum of pediatric illnesses. Supervision is provided by full-time attending physicians assigned to the teams, subspecialty attendings and consultants. Emanuel is a private hospital in northeast Portland, a 10-minute drive from the OHSU campus.
Residents care for a mix of more common, general pediatric problems.
Supervision is provided by a combination of full-time staff, community pediatricians and private pediatric subspecialists, thus exposing the resident to a different perspective on patient management. Critically ill or injured infants and children are cared for in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Doernbecher by residents under the close supervision of the full-time pediatric critical care faculty. Infants all room-in with their mothers. The resident gains experience in counseling new mothers and learns to recognize disorders of newborn transition. The resident works in a busy, but efficient, ambulatory care setting under the supervision of Kaiser staff pediatricians.