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)
PGY-1 | PGY-2 | PGY-3 | Total | |
Inpatient | 16 | 8 | 8 | 32 |
NICU | 8 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
PICU | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Emergency Medicine | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Ambulatory/Community Medicine | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
Private Practice Experience | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Pediatric Urgent Care | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Well Baby Nursery | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Adolescent Medicine | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Cardiology | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Endocrinology | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Infectious Disease | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Procedural Skills | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pulmonology | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Call-Free Individualized Curriculum | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Individualized Curriculum with Call | 0 | 12 | 16 | 28 |
Vacation | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
* Based on their individualized learning plans, residents will complete two of the following electives: gastroenterology, hematology-oncology or neurology.