| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Pediatric Residency Home
Our Three Tracks
In this Section:
The three tracks in Children’s residency program offer a chance for training in an environment best suited to individual interests. All three tracks have 24 months of pediatric training in common, ensuring that graduates are indistinguishable in their ability to provide excellent general pediatric care and are equally qualified to pursue subspecialty work if they so choose after residency. The Categorical Pediatrics Track is the traditional residency training track. The Primary Care Track and Community Health Track provide a small learning home within the larger home of Children’s National. Our Primary Care Track residents spend 10 months at Children’s Pediatricians & Associates practice in Foggy Bottom, where they become an integral part of a primary care practice. The Community Health Track, our newest track, focuses on health disparities and the development of skills in health policy, advocacy, and community healthcare delivery.
The three tracks are similar during the first year of training, with their unique qualities becoming more prominent in the second and third years. There are 20 residents per training year in the Categorical Track and four per year both in the Primary Care and Community Health Tracks, for a total of 28 residents per residency class.
Many applicants have questions particularly about the difference between the Primary Care Track and the Community Health Track. The Primary Care Track provides an opportunity to learn in one setting during a concentrated period of time, thereby becoming an integral part of a working pediatric practice. The Community Health Track’s main focus is on community pediatrics, public health, serving the underserved, and advocacy. Primary Care Track residents spend five blocks in both their second and third years seeing patients side-by-side with the attendings, working closely with office staff, and gaining in-depth exposure to daily primary care pediatric practice. During this time they can choose elective opportunities in advocacy and policy. Community Health Track residents spend their outpatient time learning to use public health techniques to identify and address community health needs, becoming a physician advocate, and managing the clinical care of vulnerable populations. The global health course and healthy policy course are included in the curriculum for all Community Health Track residents.
As learning experiences expand throughout the program, we have found that having three tracks strengthens the program as a whole. Often residents who develop expertise in one track provide a unique perspective on pediatrics that is then conveyed to their peers. In addition, many of the opportunities that are an integral part of the curriculum for one track are open to all residents as electives.
Some of the rotations available to all residents include:
- Child and Adolescent Protection Center- residents spend two to four weeks learning not only how to obtain an accurate history and perform a physical exam on an abused child, but also how to manage the child and family situation going forward
- Child Health Advocacy Institute- provides an introduction to basic advocacy tools and allows residents to focus on an issue important to pediatric health and do research and advocacy related to that issue
- Community Building Blocks- addresses the seven areas of community pediatrics and allows residents to choose from myriad activities to learn about each of these areas
- Foggy Bottom Didactics- once weekly sessions where residents explore a primary care pediatric topic in-depth and spend time leaning about commonly encountered mental health issues in pediatrics
- Global Health Elective- one-week course that exposes residents to global health issues including healthcare delivery, disease management, and resource allocation
- Health Policy Fellowship- three weeks are spent at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services gaining a basic understanding of the healthcare system in the United States and how policy shapes and influences healthcare practices
|
|
|
|
|
|
