Congratulations! You have made an important decision to pursue a career focusing on society's most valuable resource: the health and welfare of children. Now you will need to make another important decision: which training program will best support your professional development and suit your career goals? Should it be a university-affiliated or community-based program? Should the training environment be that of a general hospital pediatric service or of a free-standing children's hospital?
Such decisions are not made easily. Each of you has varying professional interests and unique clinical talents. Some of you are aiming for pediatric practice after training while others are preparing for full-time academic careers after post-doctoral fellowships. Whatever your preference, the pediatric training program at NYU offers the opportunity to fully develop the requisite knowledge, clinical skills and professionalism to achieve any career goal.
Educational opportunities abound at NYU. The spectrum of primary and tertiary care patients at Bellevue and Tisch Hospitals, respectively, will enable you to enhance your diagnostic acumen and hone your management skills.
- Rotations through pediatric subspecialty services at both institutions provide the opportunity to learn about the "art" of consultative medicine as well as the scientific basis of each discipline.
- Daily teaching conferences conducted by the NYU School of Medicine pediatric faculty at both Bellevue and Tisch, provide important insights into our understanding of the epidemiology and the biomolecular mechanisms of diseases affecting infants, children and adolescents.
- Bedside teaching rounds supervised by members of our senior attending staff provide the necessary conceptual framework for both clinical decision-making and effective patient care. Our didactic focus on
- evidence-based clinical care allows for the development of the information management skills necessary to critically assess the validity of data reported in the medical literature and their applicability to the practice of pediatrics.
- Faculty sponsored and mentored resident research projects afford an in-depth understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry which are the foundation of modern medicine and the future of pediatrics.
We look forward to your visit with us at our midtown Manhattan campus. After talking with our residents and faculty members, and visiting our training facilities, we are confident that you will be impressed not only with NYU's agenda for advancing children's medical and surgical services in New York City, but also with the clinical and educational balance of the training program, the camaraderie of the house staff, and the dedication of the attending staff to the education of highly competent clinicians.
We look forward to meeting you.
