The others are to do research and provide top-level health care to the children of our community and state. We feel these roles are mutually dependent on and complementary to each other. As the only tertiary care center for infants and children in the state, we provide service to patients with unusual and complex problems who are referred from other physicians and hospitals. This mixture of patients allows the resident to see a sizable range of pathology. It also generates exceptional proficiency at recognizing and managing both the more complex and unusual disorders.
Teaching is provided through a number of outlets.
Discussion of new patients takes place in morning conferences, the outpatient department, the nursery and on the wards. Less structured teaching is given daily in attending rounds with senior residents and faculty. Over the course of the first year and the two upper level resident years, residents are rotated through all of these services to expose themselves to a diverse mix of both common and obscure pediatric problems. Nursery Training Solid background knowledge of fetal and newborn physiology and medicine provides an important foundation to understanding the general scope of pediatric medicine. During the three-year residency program, resident physicians will spend five months in newborn medicine.