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Curriculum at a Glance

First-Year Residents (PGY-1)

First-year residents at Goryeb Children’s Hospital's Pediatric Residency Program rotate monthly through the following areas:

  • Inpatient general pediatrics
  • Well baby nursery
  • Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
  • Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)
  • Primary care
  • Ambulatory and community medicine
  • Adolescent medicine
  • Procedural skills
  • Infectious disease
  • Pulmonology
  • Developmental and behavioral pediatrics
skills day

Second-Year Residents (PGY-2)

Our second-year residents assume more patient care responsibility, supervise medical students and rotate through the following areas:

  • Inpatient general pediatrics
  • NICU
  • PICU
  • Private practice experience
  • Pediatric emergency department at Morristown Medical Center
  • Subspecialty experience with cardiology and endocrinology departments
  • Four Individualized Curriculum rotations, one of which is call-free

Third-Year Residents (PGY-3)

Our third-year residents assume the major supervisory role in the inpatient and critical care units. In addition to the following rotations, senior residents choose from a range of elective options:

  • Inpatient general pediatrics
  • PICU
  • Private practice experience
  • Pediatric urgent care experience
  • Pediatric emergency department at Morristown Medical Center
  • Five Individualized Curriculum rotations, one of which is call-free

Average schedule (in weeks)

 PGY-1PGY-2PGY-3Total
Inpatient168832
NICU84012
PICU44412
Emergency Medicine
0448
Ambulatory/Community Medicine226
10
Private Practice Experience0224
Pediatric Urgent Care0044
Well Baby Nursery4004
Adolescent Medicine
4004
Cardiology0404
Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics4004
Endocrinology040
4
Infectious Disease2002
Procedural Skills
2
00
2
Pulmonology2002
Call-Free Individualized Curriculum
0448
Individualized Curriculum with Call
0121628
Vacation44412

* Based on their individualized learning plans, residents will complete two of the following electives: gastroenterology, hematology-oncology or neurology.