Program Mission & Aims

Mission: To provide a training environment that promotes excellence, curiosity, critical thinking, ownership, collaboration, and develops pediatricians with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be local and national leaders for child health across a spectrum of careers.

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

1. Recruit high-achieving pediatric residents with diverse characteristics that will lead to success in clinical care, scholarship, advocacy, and leadership.
2. Promote acquisition of bedside, foundational and cutting-edge medical knowledge and skills in the care of infants, children, and adolescents.
3. Train residents who are great teachers and leaders and who practice in a way that influences others to elevate clinical excellence, duty, communication, equity, evidence-base, quality, safety, curiosity, and ownership.
4. Train residents prepared to become skilled pediatric generalists, subspecialists, investigators, innovators, educators, and health leaders.
5. Provide a scholarly environment to explore and lead advances in child health, from the basic and translational sciences, to clinical and health services research, health policy and advocacy, to medical education.