Educational Programs
- Osteopathic residency training program
- Pediatric clerkship for third year medical students
- Sub-internship for fourth year medical students
- Electives in pediatric cardiology and emergency medicine for medical students
- Daily morning report for residents and students
- Weekly grand rounds presented by hospital and community attendings
- Monthly journal club presentation
- Monthly quiz for pediatric board preparation
- Weekly lectures for students given by hospital attending and residents
The Pediatric Residency Program at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center (WHMC) provides a progressive educational curriculum with increasing patient care and supervisory responsibilities over a three-year training period. Each year there are 12 rotations, each one month in duration.
At this primary site, residents rotate through the pediatric inpatient floor, pediatric emergency room, pediatric ambulatory care including continuity clinic, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the newborn nursery. In addition, residents rotate through required electives in pediatric cardiology, pediatric gastroenterology, and pediatric neurology. Residents also have the option to complete rotations in pediatric surgery and school heath.
Our teaching faculty consists of 15 teaching faculty members (including 10 core faculty members) and 6 residents, (3) PGY-2 and (3) PGY-3. Recent graduate Roger Nakata, DO, has started working as an outpatient pediatrician in California after passing his AOBP certifying examination. Shoji Samson, DO, has started his Neonatal Fellowship in Baylor Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas.
Objectives for all rotations are to develop skills for organizing and providing succinct and appropriately detailed written notes in electronic health records. Residents must learn to prioritize clinical tasks and to supervise junior residents and medical students. They also must learn to effectively communicate with support staff, utilize healthcare resources, and perform required clinical procedures.
Outside Rotations
Residents are placed at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital during their second year of residency. They rotate through adolescent medicine, developmental and behavioral pediatrics, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric pulmonology, and hematology/oncology electives at this site.
The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) rotation occurs once during PGY-2 and once during PGY-3 at Cohen’s Children’s Medical Center (CCMC). CCMC is a level IV, 31-bed PICU. All levels of patient care are provided with advanced therapies including extra-corporeal membranous oxygenation (ECMO) life support, renal replacement therapy (RRT), inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) and high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV).
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center’s Pediatric Residency Program welcomes you to visit and apply to our program.
Tina Susi, Office Manager
Pediatric Residency Coordinator
Resources
Pediatrics Resident Directory