Pediatric Residency Program Academics
The Pediatric Residency Program at the Children’s Hospital at Scott & White, the primary teaching hospital for Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, is dedicated to educating our residents on the skills necessary to practice patient-based, state-of-the-art pediatrics. The program aims to prepare physicians to provide excellent, patient-oriented, comprehensive healthcare to children and adolescents, their families and their communities by teaching, modeling and promoting the principles and values which have established the practice of pediatrics as a respected discipline.
Among these, the program envisions a commitment to service; personal integrity; clinical competency; effective interpersonal communication; collaboration with patients, parents and other healthcare professionals; and the pursuit of life-long learning and scholarly activities as essential to all pediatricians. Physicians with a solid foundation in these principles and values will be well equipped to provide effective medical care to their patients within any and all future healthcare delivery systems.
The Department of Pediatrics offers a three-year residency for physicians who plan to devote their professional lives to the care of infants, children and adolescents. There are six positions at each Pediatric Level (PL-1, PL-2, PL-3) and one junior staff position, the Carey M. Pearcy Chief Resident. The program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). All recent graduates of the program have been certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.
Residents will progressively increase their responsibility in patient care while under the supervision of experienced, dedicated faculty. The department has more than 50 full-time members in:
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Upon completion of the program, residents are prepared to enter private practice or seek additional training in pediatric subspecialties. Approximately two-thirds of recent graduates have chosen primary care, and one-third have entered competitive academic fellowships such as Neonatology, Pediatric Critical Care, Allergy/Immunology, Emergency Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Neurology, Pulmonology, Infectious Disease, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology.