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Pediatric Residency Program |
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Driscoll Children's Hospital is a major training facility for pediatric medicine in Southwest Texas. We have had an ACGME approved pediatric residency program since 1956. We currently have 42 residents in the program, 14 at each level. During the last 17 years, 69% of our graduates have chosen general pediatric practice, 76% of the residents have stayed in Texas, and over 50% of the residents who chose a subspecialty return to Texas, particularly to South Texas. Thus, Driscoll Children's Hospital has truly fulfilled the mission envisioned by Clara Driscoll in improving the healthcare of children in South Texas. Not only has this institution been effective in training primary care pediatrics for South Texas, we have also provided the children of southwest Texas access to subspecialty care in their own community by residents who initially did their training at Driscoll Children's Hospital. The Pediatric Residency Program was organized by
Dr. Joseph McBride Sloan, who was succeeded after his retirement
by Dr. Meyer Kurzner, who had been an active supporter of Driscoll
Children's Hospital since its opening. The training at Driscoll
Children's Hospital is comprehensive and has an onsite medical library
that is supported by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. We
have a large faculty of general
pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists. |
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Because the teaching staff includes a good number of practicing general pediatricians, sub-specialists and pediatric faculty from the University of Texas Galveston, Houston and San Antonio, as well as the Baylor College of Medicine, Driscoll Children's Hospital is a model for good interaction between academic and practical pediatrics. In addition to our residency program, we also train a number of residents and fellows from the universities around the state:
The wide representation of residency graduates in practice around the world is an excellent measure of the program's effectiveness and Driscoll Children's Hospital's contribution to the field of medicine. Driscoll graduates have put their knowledge to work in Mexico, Nigeria, Turkey, Thailand, Paraguay, Korea, Argentina, Denmark, Iran, The Philippines, in addition to the many independent and group practices that have benefited throughout the United States. The residency program accepts 14 residents each year. The curriculum is split into month-long blocks and follows the current RRC guidelines. Residents and faculty complete evaluations at the end of each rotation. The feedback received allows us to continually to improve the educational opportunities for residents. Residents take monthly quizzes to evaluate progress and take the standard board exam at the beginning of each year. Residents are also given bonus picture quizzes each week, which are created by the Chief Resident The hospital draws patients from the Brownsville, Laredo, Victoria triangle of south Texas an area containing over 1.5 million people. Average daily census is greater than 100. There are about 5,000 medica/surgical, and 260 neonatal admissions per year. Additionally 52,000 outpatients are seen annually. There is a 40 bed neonate unit and a 20 bed pediatric intensive care unit. Patients are cared for by residents under the supervision of an attending pediatrician or surgeon. Evaluations for the residents and by the residents are completed
via an online web-based system – eResidency.
This web-based system allows residents to anonymously evaluated
attendings, fellow residents/interns and rotations. In turn, residents
can also view a summarized report of all evaluations submitted by
residents or attendings about them. This system also allows for
tracking of continuity clinic, procedures and offers a variety of
other features that residents have found to be beneficial. |
