The Hospital's twenty two bed Level III newborn intensive care unit, which is part of the Regional Perinatal Center, serves ad the referral center for Northeast Tennessee with frequent admissions from the neighboring states as well. Residents are provided the opportunity for increasing patient care responsibilities over the three years of training, and are encouraged to assume supervisory responsibilities over junior residents and medical students. Outpatient offices are located in a new clinical education building adjacent to the Johnson City Medical Center Hospital. Residents will have ready access to a general clinical laboratory, a microbiology laboratory and basic x-ray services. The Pediatric Research Center provides residents the opportunity to participate in ongoing basic research under the direction of a full-time basic science researcher.
Opportunities also exist for clinical research within a variety of pediatric subspecialities.
A wide range of educational conferences are scheduled for the residents including ambulatory care conferences, grand rounds, morning reports, journal club, morbidity and mortality review conferences, subspecialty conferences, and guest lectures. The Department is also implementing computer aided instruction systems to complement traditional teaching methods.