Program Mission & Aims

Mission: To provide a training environment that promotes autonomy and develops pediatricians with the foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes to be local and national leaders across the spectrum of pediatric careers.

Specific Aims: To achieve this mission, the Pediatric Residency Program strives:

To recruit high-achieving pediatric resident candidates with diverse characteristics that will lead to success in clinical care, scholarship, advocacy, and leadership.
To promote acquisition of foundational and cutting edge medical knowledge in the care of infants, children, and adolescents.
To provide a collaborative scholarly training environment that promotes growth and success in academic scholarship, including advocacy, clinical care, medical education, and research.
To train residents to practice pediatrics in an evidence-based environment with attention to patient safety and quality improvement.
To train residents who are capable of becoming pediatric generalists, subspecialists, researchers, educators, and clinicians in the hospital and community setting.