Career Counseling
Approximately 50 percent of residents completing training here enter academic medicine and 50 percent enter general pediatric practice. Faculty are actively involved in helping residents identify career opportunities.
The subspecialty experience is extensive, providing residents with an excellent general education that enables them to enter general pediatrics practice with confidence. It also provides important exposure to a wide range of types of medicine from which a decision regarding subspecialty fellowship can be made.
The department offers a series of lectures and workshops designed to keep residents abreast of current medical practice models. Residents completing their training here are actively recruited by fellowship directors and general practitioners across the country.
Residents as Teachers
Development of teaching skills
Teaching skills are developed through daily interaction with families, medical students, nurses and peer residents. In addition, formal semiannual meetings with chief residents are held in small groups to refine teaching skills as well as direct mentorship with attending physicians in daily practice.
Training in ethical leadership
Training is provided by means of a lecture series, personal experiences with patients who have a multitude of ethical challenges and interactions with the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Ethics Committee.
Career Counseling
Approximately 50 percent of residents completing training here enter academic medicine and 50 percent enter general pediatric practice. Faculty are actively involved in helping residents identify career opportunities.
The subspecialty experience is extensive, providing residents with an excellent general education that enables them to enter general pediatrics practice with confidence. It also provides important exposure to a wide range of types of medicine from which a decision regarding subspecialty fellowship can be made.
The department offers a series of lectures and workshops designed to keep residents abreast of current medical practice models. Residents completing their training here are actively recruited by fellowship directors and general practitioners across the country.
Residents as Teachers
Development of teaching skills
Teaching skills are developed through daily interaction with families, medical students, nurses and peer residents. In addition, formal semiannual meetings with chief residents are held in small groups to refine teaching skills as well as direct mentorship with attending physicians in daily practice.
Training in ethical leadership
Training is provided by means of a lecture series, personal experiences with patients who have a multitude of ethical challenges and interactions with the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Ethics Committee.