Columbia University Medical Center consistently has been praised for the quality, innovation, and academic rigor of its educational programs, as well as for the unsurpassed excellence of its faculty. Home to approximately 2,900 students and 6,200 part-time and full-time faculty members, the Columbia University Medical Center campus includes four professional schools, as well as the biomedical sciences programs of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Pediatric Residency

The Pediatric Residency Program at the Children's Hospital of New York has a tradition of excellence in training residents to become outstanding general pediatricians, subspecialists, physician scientists, and academicians. We provide our residents a wide variety of training experiences in an environment that encourages independent thought with support by knowledgeable faculty educators. Our purpose is to create clinical scholars who are intellectually curious in all settings, from the laboratory to the hospital and to ambulatory practice.


One of our traditional strengths has been our busy inpatient services with a broad variety of diagnoses. This strength continues, and out inpatient services have a diverse patient population with children from the local community and a large subspecialty patient population from the surrounding tristate area. Virtually every type of patient is seen in the hospital -- ranging from asthma to alveolar proteinosis and from pertussis to transplant and post-op cardiology patients.

In addition to providing training in the hospital setting, we have broadened our training in the ambulatory setting. Our goal is lofty: we want to train skillful and caring physicians who view the patients in the context of family nd community, and who are educators as well as health care providers. We achieve this goal by having the residents participate in blended faculty-resident practices and place the resident as the central primary physician for the patient in both the outpatient and inpatient setting.

Our current residents come from varied backgrounds, training and education. All are committed to providing the best care possible and we are proud of them. We have provided our residents with exposure to a wide variety of training experiences in an environment that encourages independent thought with support by knowledgeable faculty educators. Our purpose has been to produce clinical scholars who are as intellectually curious and as demanding in ambulatory settings as they are in more traditional inpatient clinical settings.