Overview
The Pediatric Primary Care Track of the Pediatric Residency Program was initiated at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in July 1997 with funding from a Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) general pediatrics training grant. Raymond C. Baker, MD, MEd is the project director.
There are currently twelve residents in the program. The first graduates completed the program in June 2000. Four residents are accepted into the program each year.
The purpose of the Pediatric Primary Care Track is to train physicians in the principles, knowledge and skills necessary to enter a career as a practicing pediatrician, or to serve as a basis for further pediatric training in academic primary care pediatrics.
The Program Emphasizes:
- Health maintenance supervision, preventative medicine and ill child care in the context of pediatric primary care
- Comprehensive, coordinated care of chronically ill and multiply handicapped children
- Management of social issues, such as poverty, ethnic diversity and medically underserved populations
- Behavioral and developmental issues, such as school-related problems and family interactions
During all three years of the program, you will spend a significant portion of your time in community-based health care sites to gain extensive outpatient experience. You also will attend regularly held educational seminars and conferences that focus on the delivery of primary care and primary care-related topics.
The program is fully integrated with the general Pediatric Residency Program, offering appropriate inpatient training and subspecialty exposure to ensure broad practical experience in pediatrics. As such, it fulfills all institutional and program requirement of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for residency education in pediatrics.
The Pediatric Primary Care Track Offers:
- Additional outpatient experience at your continuity site, with decreased inpatient ward duties
- Additional normal newborn experience, with decreased neonatal intensive care training
- Emphasis on behavioral and developmental pediatrics, community-based health care agencies and activities, and child advocacy and child abuse
Contact Us
We invite you to advance your career in the Pediatric Primary Care Track of our Pediatric Residency Program at Cincinnati Children's.
Diane Skeen, Program Coordinator
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
3333 Burnet Avenue, ML 5018
Cincinnati, Ohio 45229-3039
Phone: 513-636-4315
Fax: 513-636-7905
Email: diane.skeen@cchmc.org
