First-Year Residents (PGY-1)
First-year residents at Goryeb Children’s Hospital's Pediatric Residency Program rotate monthly through the following areas:
- Inpatient general pediatrics
- Well baby nursery
- Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
- Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)
- Private practice experience
- Ambulatory and community medicine
- Adolescent medicine
- Procedural skills
- Infectious disease
- Pulmonology
- Developmental and behavioral pediatrics
- Emergency Medicine
Second-Year Residents (PGY-2)
Our second-year residents assume more patient care responsibility, supervise medical students and rotate through the following areas:
- Inpatient general pediatrics
- NICU
- PICU
- Private practice experience
- Pediatric emergency department at Morristown Medical Center
- Pediatric urgent care experience
- Private practice experience
- Ambulatory and community medicine
- Four Individualized Curriculum rotations, one of which is call-free
Third-Year Residents (PGY-3)
Our third-year residents assume the major supervisory role in the inpatient and critical care units. In addition to the following rotations, senior residents choose from a range of elective options:
- Inpatient general pediatrics
- PICU
- Hematology/Oncology service
- Private practice experience
- Ambulatory and mental health
- Pediatric emergency department at Morristown Medical Center
- Five Individualized Curriculum rotations, one of which is call-free
Boot Camp
- Starting in July 2024, block 1 will serve as a Boot Camp for all residents
- PGY1s will focus on transition to residency, rotating through inpatient days and nights, PICU days, NICU days and nights, and the outpatient office
- PGY2s focus on the transition to senior resident role, with the block split between two weeks of inpatient and two weeks of outpatient
- PGY3s focus on resident as teacher, with the block split between two weeks of inpatient and two weeks of outpatient
- Seniors will be given opportunity to rate their preference for inpatient experience.
PGY-1 | PGY-2 | PGY-3 |
Floor M days | Ambulatory | Ambulatory |
NICU | Mental Health | Community Advocacy |
PICU/Floor M nights | Individualized Curriculum (inpatient preference) | Individualized Curriculum (inpatient preference) |
Ambulatory | Individualized Curriculum (inpatient preference) | Individualized Curriculum (inpatient preference) |
Average schedule (in weeks)
PGY-1 | PGY-2 | PGY-3 | Total | |
Inpatient | 13 | 12 | 8 | 33 |
NICU | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
PICU | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
Emergency Medicine | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
Ambulatory/General Pediatrics | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
Ambulatory/Community Medicine | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Ambulatory/Mental Health | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Private Practice Experience | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pediatric Urgent Care | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Well Baby Nursery | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Adolescent Medicine | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Hematology/Oncology Service | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Infectious Disease | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Procedural Skills | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pulmonology | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Individualized Curriculum Call-Free | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Individualized Curriculum with Call | 0 | 10 | 14 | 24 |
Individualized Curriculum Inpatient Selective* | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
Vacation | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
*Based on their individualized learning plans, residents will be given preference for specific inpatient experiences over the course of their three years of training.