Our Pediatric Residency Program

The program’s first year gives you experience and education across all aspects of caring for hospitalized and ambulatory pediatric patients. During this year, you’ll assume the responsibility for patient care decisions with the supervision of senior residents and attending physicians.

Through inpatient rotations at SBH Health System and Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, you’ll learn how to diagnose and manage common pediatric problems. Rotations include:

• Allergy/immunology
• Cardiology
• Infectious disease
• Pediatric ambulatory group practice
• Pediatric emergency department
• Well baby nursery

You’ll also spend up to three elective blocks exploring clinical or academic interests that align with your future career goals. These electives are thoughtfully planned in collaboration with program leaders to ensure a personalized and meaningful educational experience.

In addition, you’ll start research and quality improvement projects this year.

Here is the first-year residency rotation schedule:

• 3 rotations of general pediatric inpatient service (one at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore)
• 1 rotations of infectious disease selective
• 2 rotations of pediatric emergency department
• 1 rotation of well-baby nursery
• 1 rotation of cardiology selective
• 3 rotations of an elective
• 1 rotation of allergy/immunology
• 4 weeks of vacation

The second year of the program lets you take on greater supervisory and decision-making roles during two block rotations in the inpatient service and two block rotations in the pediatric emergency department. You’ll also study how to care for sick newborns in the NICU.

In addition, you’ll spend one block rotation on the pediatric oncology service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a rotation at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore that focuses on the management of acutely ill children in the PICU, as well as ambulatory-based rotations in adolescent medicine, child development and neurology.

You’ll also spend a two-block rotation as elective time in a clinical or academic pursuit.

Here is the second-year residency rotation schedule:

• 2 rotations of general pediatric inpatient service
• 1 rotation of pediatric oncology service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• 2 rotations of pediatric emergency department
• 1 rotation of neonatal intensive care
• 1 rotation of pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
• 1 rotation of developmental/behavioral/neurology
• 1 rotation of outpatient service
• 1 rotation of adolescent medicine
• 2 rotations of elective
• 4 weeks of vacation

As a third-year resident, you’ll serve as a leader among the medical students at SBH Health System, playing a vital role in both clinical care and medical education. You’ll complete rotations in outpatient pediatrics and community medicine that provide you with valuable exposure to a range of healthcare settings beyond the hospital, broadening your perspective and deepening your understanding of community-based care.

In addition, you’ll spend two elective blocks further enhancing your core educational experience through individualized clinical or academic pursuits.

You’ll also complete the research projects you began in your first year and present your findings at the culminating ground rounds of the academic year. You’ll also be encouraged to share your work at prominent national and regional conferences and professional organizations.

Finally, you’ll complete a dedicated one-block rotation in mental health, where you’ll gain essential skills in recognizing and managing the most common mental health disorders affecting pediatric patients, a growing and critical area of need in pediatric care.

Here is the third-year residency rotation schedule:

• 3 rotations of general pediatric inpatient service
• 2 rotations of pediatric emergency department
• 1 rotation of neonatal intensive care
• 1 rotation of developmental/behavioral at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln
• 1 rotation of outpatient service
• 1 rotation of Children’s Hospital at Montefiore pediatric intensive care unit
• 1 rotation of mental health
• 2 rotations of elective
• 4 weeks of vacation

Based on a training period of 10 one-half day sessions per week — and accounting for your residency year and rotation — you’ll spend between one to two sessions per week in continuity clinic following a cohort of patients through all aspects of well and sick pediatric care.

You’ll be assigned to one of three locations for your pediatric primary care continuity clinic:

• SBH Health System Pediatric Primary Care Clinic
• Pediatric Primary Care Clinic at Ground Concourse
• Pediatric Primary Care Clinic at Union Community Health Center

All three locations are staffed by experienced, full-time, pediatric primary care faculty members who care for their own panel of patients in addition to serving as resident preceptors. You’ll also rotate through these locations while on your outpatient pediatric rotations. Each site will give you experience practicing in a supervised pediatric primary care practice, similar to the one you may find yourself working in after graduation.

The practices include an appointment system that accommodates scheduled appointments and walk-in visits, as well as comprehensive on-site and phone coverage. You’ll monitor your patients’ consultative visits outside of the clinic and any hospitalizations and/or emergency room visits.

The Department of Pediatrics at SBH is committed to becoming a premier institution for clinical research dedicated to child health. Our research areas of particular interest include:

• Clinical epidemiology
• Pediatric infectious disease
• Pediatric respiratory disease
• Pediatric trauma

We have also initiated several clinical research projects related to:

• Adolescent psychiatry
• Child safety
• Developmental and behavioral pediatrics
• Pediatric asthma
• Pediatric dentistry

Through our residency program, we offer:

• A monthly evidence-based medicine conference
• A monthly journal club
• Faculty mentoring of resident-initiated research projects
• Monthly research seminars (focused on the principles of epidemiology and methodology)

The success of our residency program is reflected in the opportunities our residents have to present their research at regional and national pediatric scientific meetings, as well as by the enthusiasm of fellowship directors who appreciate the level of clinical research experience our residents bring. Based on the acceptance rate of our residents in competitive ambulatory positions and top programs for advanced fellowship training, these research accomplishments have clearly made an impact with fellowship directors and primary care recruiters.

Here is a representative sampling of some of our recent research projects:

• Brain CT after minor head trauma
• Inconsistency in echocardiographic diagnosis of pediatric left ventricular hypertrophy between various standards
• Maternal knowledge, attitudes and perceptions toward the use of human donor milk
• Impact of sleep hygiene intervention in patients with ADHD and sleep disorders
• Perception of pacifier use among caregivers of infants
• Relationship between COVID-19 pandemic and parental refusal of influenza immunization
• Relationship between parental adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and a positive PSC-17 in their children
• Risk factors that predict PICU admissions among babies with acute bronchiolitis
• SBH workers’ perception of SSB/Healthy Beverage Zone
• Social, cultural and structural gatekeepers of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake among Black and Latino adolescents who attend an adolescent medicine clinic in high-risk urban settings

Our residency program benefits include:

• 20 days of paid vacation per year
• Sick leave accrual (one day per month the first year, then 12 days per year)
• An annual stipend
• Medical, dental and disability insurance
• Prescription drug plan
• Professional liability coverage for all approved residency program activities
• H-1B and J-1 visa sponsorship
• Competitive salary commensurate with postgraduate year

All conditions of employment, including compensation and benefits, are negotiated with the Committee of Interns and Residents SEIU, which represents all interns, residents and fellows.

7-1-2024 Salary (6%):

• First year: $76,343
• Second year: $80,757
• Third year: $86,055

7-1-2025 Salary (5%):

• First year: $80,160
• Second year: $84,795
• Third year: $90,358

PGY 1 applicants

If you’re interested in a PGY 1 position (categorical pediatric internship), apply through ERAS. Our residency program ACGME number is 3203521416.

We only accept ERAS applications and will not accept applications by mail. We do offer H-1B and J-1 visa sponsorship.

Requirements to be considered for an interview

• U.S. non-IMG applicants
  • Must have passed USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK
• IMG and U.S. IMG applicants
  • Must have passed USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK
  • ECFMG certification is preferred
• DO applicants
  • Must have passed COMLEX Level 1 and Level 2
  • Must also have passed USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK

We schedule interviews through Thalamus.

PGY 2 and/or PGY 3 applicants

There may be a limited number of these positions open to superior candidates. If you’re interested in one of these positions, please submit:

• A completed ERAS application
• USMLE scores (front and back of report)
• ECFMG certificate (if applicable)
• Three letters of recommendation
• Dean’s letter
• Medical school transcript (including diploma if available) and a recent photograph

Send to:

Karla Seams, MBA
Program Coordinator, Department of Pediatrics
4422 Third Ave.
Mills Building, 4th Floor
Bronx, NY 10457

Apply through ERAS for our residency program.

For more information or if you have questions, contact:

Karla Seams, MBA
Program Coordinator, Department of Pediatrics
kseams@sbhny.org