Program Goals
Our Pediatric Residency Program strives to provide the clinical experiences and to create the curriculum necessary to achieve the following educational goals:
- Training residents in an inclusive environment of respect and support
- Training our residents to become compassionate and effective patient care providers for children and families while recognizing their role as advocates to advance health equity
- Ensuring that our residents build a solid foundation of medical knowledge and the ability to effectively apply knowledge of the biological, psychosocial, and epidemiological aspects of pediatric illness
- Promoting our residents’ critical thinking abilities, including appraisal and assimilation of scientific literature, self-evaluation, and life-long learning
- Developing our residents’ skills in cultural humility, communication with patients, their families, and other health care providers
- Imparting to our residents the highest sense of professionalism, responsibility, and ethical principles
- Providing residents with opportunities to learn how to be advocates for the health of children and families within our society
- Preparing residents to work effectively in various health care systems, by developing awareness of those systems, and to utilize resources, at times limited, to provide optimal care
- Providing our residents with training that will serve them well as either primary care physicians or in careers in pediatric subspecialties, research, advocacy, public or global health
For more information see: Rotation-Specific Goals & Objectives