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UCSD Pediatric Primary Care Residency Track
UCSD Pediatric Residency Primary Care Track is designed for candidates who are pursuing a career in general pediatrics, either as a general pediatrician within the community or as a general pediatrician in an academic setting with particular emphasis on advocacy and/or public health issues for children in underserved areas.
This track combines the educational strengths of our categorical pediatric residency program curriculum with enhanced experiences in primary care within the community. Residents in this track receive a strong foundation in inpatient and specialty pediatrics but devote the majority of their time during second and third years of residency in the outpatient setting. Special primary care seminars and regular primary care meetings are also integrated into the curriculum.
Applications for the primary care track occur during your first year of residency. In the second and third years of residency, primary care track residents participate in the Resident Academic Project (RAP) that enables them to apply their newly developed skills in community medicine, primary care quality improvement, or medical education by completing a scholarly project under mentoring and guidance. Graduating residents present their projects at an annual Department of Pediatric Research Symposium in May.
By the end of their training, graduates of the program will have a detailed understanding of local community barriers to health and how to partner with schools and other community organizations to address local child health problems and are very capable of practicing in any venue in which children’s health needs are underserved.
Highlights include:
- 1-2 residents accepted each year
- A comprehensive, primary care-focused training program
- Focus on training in the outpatient setting
- Opportunity to achieve unique competencies in community-based approaches to improving child health in underserved areas of San Diego County
- Longitudinal seminar series and journal club that focuses on special topics in primary care pediatrics.
- Protected time to complete the Resident Academic Project (RAP) and presentation at a seminar.
| Inpatient wards (days) | 8 weeks
| 4 weeks | 6 weeks |
| Inpatient wards (nights) | 2 weeks
| 4 weeks
| 4 weeks (admit and mole)
|
Newborn
| 4 weeks
| - | -
|
| NICU | 4 weeks | 4 weeks | - |
PICU
| - | 4 weeks | 4 weeks |
| Developmental Pediatrics (DBP) | 4 weeks | - | - |
| Adolescent (MBU, Navy) | - | 4 weeks | 4 weeks |
| Elective/Primary Care Experiences | 12 weeks
| 18 weeks | 16 weeks |
| Urgent Care | - | 2 weeks | 2 weeks |
| Emergency Room | 2 weeks | 4 weeks | 2 weeks |
| Community Peds | 4 weeks | - | - |
| Primary Care Clinic (PCC) | 4 weeks | 2 weeks | 4 weeks |
| Family Health Centers (a large FQHC) | 4 weeks | - | 4 weeks |
| Kaiser | - | - | 4 weeks |
| Resident academic project (RAP) | - | 2 weeks | 2 weeks |
| Vacation | 4 weeks | 4 weeks | 4 weeks |
| | | | |
| Continuity clinic | half day | half day | half day |
| Supervisory continuity clinic | - | - | half day
|
Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP)
The Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Residency program is proud to promote the career development of physician-scientists through our Physician Scientist Training Program. This program participates in a separate match during the recruitment season. We offer both integrated and accelerated research pathways to MD/PhDs and research-oriented MDs.
Learn more about the Physician Scientist Training Program.
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