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
  

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)

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