Albert Einstein Medical Center is a teaching hospital offering a full range of advanced health services to the Philadelphia community and beyond. Einstein Medical Center has more than 600 primary care doctors and specialists on staff, with an additional 1,200 affiliated physicians.

Pediatrics Residency Program
The Department of Pediatrics trains 24 categorical pediatric residents and an additional 16 residents in combined Medicine-Pediatrics Program. In the course of the three-year categorical pediatric program, while caring for and learning about children who range in age from 0 to 21 years, residents receive balanced and comprehensive training in primary, subspecialty and critical care pediatrics. A highly skilled, experienced and congenial faculty guides residents through a broad educational experience as the residents play a vital role in the care of more than 2,000 inpatients and 20,000 outpatients each year.

Einstein Medical Center has longstanding commitments to providing medical services to its community and to educating future practicing physicians. Both commitments are represented in the pediatrics residency program at the medical center, with our ties to the community providing the basis for a strong primary care program. Our residents' primary care experiences are augmented with inpatient tertiary care and subspecialty rotations at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (SCHC), also located in North Philadelphia. The inpatient rotations for our residents take place at SCHC on the Einstein service, which is directed by Einstein faculty. We believe that this combination of a nurturing primary care program at Einstein Medical Center complemented with inpatient and tertiary care experiences at a major children's hospital, provides our residents with the best of both worlds.

Albert Einstein Medical Center is a major affiliated teaching hospital of Jefferson Medical College. Einstein Medical Center pediatric faculty members have academic appointments at Jefferson and Jefferson medical students receive core pediatric training at Einstein Medical Center.

Training Goals

The goals of the pediatrics residency training program are:

* To create a collegial atmosphere where teaching and learning will flourish

* To educate residents to become well-rounded pediatricians, with experience and training necessary to function as primary care pediatricians

* To provide residents with the background needed for fellowship training in any pediatric subspecialty