University of Washington School of Medicine Pediatric Residency Training |
The residency program combines both inpatient and ambulatory experiences throughout the three-year period.
From the intensive care units to the medical unit to the Harborview drop-in clinic, residents are exposed to a wide variety of both normal development and pediatric pathology.
No two schedules are alike since residents have the opportunity to tailor their rotations to enhance future career goals. Ample learning opportunities exist in the form of conferences, didactic teaching sessions, and informal team-based teaching.
The R1 year is designed for residents to acquire the skills necessary to recognize children with manifestations of acute and chronic illness.
These skills are developed through a series of inpatient months on the general medicine service, the hematology/oncology service and the neonatal ICU, as well as outpatient months in continuity clinic, the emergency department, the normal newborn nursery and electives.
The R2 year promotes leadership, teaching and clinical decision-making skills.
R2s play an important supervisory role in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Supervisory months are spent on the inpatient services and neonatal intensive care units at Children’s and the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC).
In addition, R2s typically spend one month rotating through intensive care units at Children’s Hospital, where they learn about complex medical management of critically ill infants and children.
All R2s spend two months in a unique, award-winning, primary care experience in a rural setting of the Northwest (referred to as the WWAMI rotation).
Regardless of eventual career path, nearly every graduate of our program identifies the WWAMI rotation as one of the most important and meaningful learning experiences in his or her medical training.
Two months during the second or third year are spent at Harborview Medical Center (HMC), the county hospital and the region’s only Level 1 trauma, burn, and sexual assault center. This rotation includes ambulatory experience in a multi-national clinic, as well as inpatient and emergency department experience.
The remainder of the year consists of additional electives offering each resident the opportunity to customize his or her clinical training to meet his or her individual learning needs.
The R3 year of training allows each resident to further enhance his or her clinical, teaching and leadership skills. On inpatient rotations, R3s have increasing levels of responsibility supervising and teaching medical students, visiting residents and pediatric R1s.
While preparing for the transition to life after residency, considerable elective time is made available for the residents to explore additional training opportunities in pediatrics, hone their skills and concentrate on specific areas of interest.
In addition to many subspecialty electives, residents may choose rotations in wilderness medicine, international health, research, or advocacy; residents may choose to spend two months as the associate chief resident.