The Department of Pediatrics Education and Training at Duke University School of Medicine offers a three-year residency that prepares students for careers involving critical care and research. The curriculum focuses on topics involving behavior and development, acute care, adolescents, emergency medicine and inpatient wards. Residents spend significant time working with pediatric patients at the Duke's Lenox Baker Children's Hospital. In addition to the pediatrics residency, opportunities are also available in child neurology and combined medicine-pediatrics.
The University of Washington's pediatric residency training program focuses on children advocacy, research and clinical practice. Residents in the program gain inpatient and field experience, and must complete rotations in primary care, critical care and acute care. Rotations take place at the Harborview Medical Center (HMC). The three-year program requires residents to teach medical students and first-year residents during their final year. Research opportunities may focus on pediatric development, human diseases, and molecular and cellular biology.
The pediatric residency training program at the University of Colorado-Denver is offered through the University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital. Tracks within the residency program are available in child neurology, general pediatrics, and pediatrics/ physical medicine and rehabilitation. Numerous sub-specialties are also available in community pediatrics, adolescent medicine, developmental and behavioral pediatrics, dermatology and cardiology. Elective opportunities are available in pediatric infectious diseases, pediatric pulmonary disease, child abuse and neglect, pediatric emergency medicine, and birth defects.
The University of Cincinnati offers a pediatric residency through the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Rotations at the school include outpatient care, advocacy, newborn nursery, emergency department, inpatient wards and adolescent medicine. Tracks in the program are available in pediatric primary care, research and global child health. During the clinical rotations, residents learn how to perform lumbar punctures, bladder catherizations, suturing and intubation.