Pediatric Residency Program

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The Pediatric Residency Training Program at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) offers physicians a comprehensive three-year program that provides the specialized education and experience needed to competently care for infants, children, and adolescents. The program emphasizes general pediatrics, preventive medicine, child advocacy, and subspecialty care.

The program is centered on experiences at the freestanding Doernbecher Children's Hospital on the OHSU campus and uses community training sites to broaden the scope of the residents' experiences. Rotations occur at Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital, Kaiser Permanente clinics, Doernbecher community and outreach pediatric clinics, school-based health centers, and private physicians' offices.

As Oregon's only academic children's hospital since 1926, Doernbecher Children's Hospital provides comprehensive services to the children and families of the region. Patients represent a variety of socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, including Hispanic/Latino, Southeast Asian, and Russian. The hospital is committed to the mission of patient care, education, research, and public service. Doernbecher's services were consolidated into a new separate facility on the OHSU campus in 1998.

Doernbecher houses the ambulatory clinics for general pediatrics, pediatric continuity clinics, and pediatric and surgical specialty clinics, including child and adolescent psychiatry. Continuity clinics for the residents also occur at community-based pediatric practices in the Portland metropolitan area. Included in Doernbecher is the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center which provides interdisciplinary clinical services for children with developmental disabilities and other special health care needs.

There are over 6,500 admissions annually to Doernbecher Children's Hospital and 69,000 visits to the ambulatory clinics. In addition, there are over 8,000 pediatric visits to the Emergency Department. Patients are derived from the primary care base at OHSU or referred from urban/rural practices in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and northern California. Many are transported to Doernbecher by the PANDA Pediatric and Neonatal Transport Team. Since 1996, Kaiser Permanente Health System's pediatric patients are also admitted to Doernbecher Children's Hospital.

Over the last five years about half of our graduates entered the practice of primary care pediatrics, mostly in the Pacific Northwest. The rest of our graduates pursue further subspecialty training. Many take advantage of pediatric fellowship programs at OHSU which include Cardiology, Endocrinology, Hematology-Oncology, and Neonatology. OHSU also has residency programs in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Pediatric Neurology, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, and Genetics-Metabolism.