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| "The
clinical experience we get is tremendous. I've seen things that most residents
think exist only in textbooks. This kind of experience is going to help
me throughout my career."
Noor Daya, M.D. |
The Primary Care Pediatrics Residency Program is committed
to providing high quality general pediatrics training which prepares you
to provide scientifically sound community-based, comprehensive, preventive
and curative care to your patients. We believe that knowledge, skills,
and clinical judgment can best be mastered in an educational environment
that is both challenging and supportive. Through hands-on experience and
didactic teaching, primary care and subspecialty training, and a balance
of community and hospital experience, you are prepared for whatever the
future holds.
We have found a comfortable balance between independence and supervision. You are involved in patient care decisions at every juncture. With no private pediatricians on staff, all patient care decisions are made by residents in conjunction with almost 50 full-time faculty members who work and teach at CCCH. Your responsibility grows as your experience and skills develop. We serve a diverse population of patients from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds with a wide variety of medical problems. We see inner-city minority patients, middle class children without health insurance, families that have come to County for generations, and immigrants that arrived in the United States last week. We treat general pediatric problems, identify and manage rare subspecialty conditions, see illnesses that are uncommon in populations with better access to medical care and even practice tropical medicine. Cook County Children's Hospital has the busiest Pediatrics Emergency Department in Chicago and the largest NICU in the Midwest. Our 12-bed PICU serves general critical care pediatric patients, as well as severely injured children who present to our world-class Trauma Unity. We boast a state-of-the-art transport program, a nationally recognized Burn Unit, our own pediatric radiology and surgery suites, and a challenging general pediatric inpatient unit. |
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