Peds person just starting out

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Hi everyone!

So, I am a beginning third year student, but I am pretty certain I want to do peds. I suppose I'm not set in stone, but in the past, my career hunches have always been pretty good.

My question to the forum is this....what are good solid peds residency programs? I know who the top names are and I'm not certain those programs are right for me. I would consider CHOP, but more for sentimental reasons than anything else. I've got some concerns about programs like CHOP, and their compatiability with my career goals.

I'm strongly considering doing work with the NHSC in the future. I am a big fan of rural medicine (hense the theory that the top research-geared programs may not be for me) and not a huge fan of cities. But, I consider location fairly irrelevent in choosing a program - I want a program that going to throughly educate me and provide a good exposure to patients. I don't think I want to be a PCP pediatrician (I've done some well-child in the past...it was fun, but a bit boring. I don't think I could do it forever without something else to focus on, like research or some kind of project).

So, what are good solid peds programs? I passed Step One comfortably, but didn't blow it away (fat part of the bell curve = me). How do I find out about these programs? (besides word of mouth).

 

[ChildNeuro]

I think that all pediatrics residency programs will give you a good exposure to all areas of pediatrics, and the ability to compete for a pediatric fellowship if you do well. I think that the more prestigious ones offer more in the way of research opportunities, but that this can be done almost anywhere. I think that NHSC will take you out of any pediatrics residency. I wouldn't count out "top pediatric residency" programs like CHOP, as many of them may have excellent programs in public health. I would strongly consider that you talk to pediatric residents during your pediatrics clerkship about their experience and goals going through the pediatrics match. You might want to hold off researching pediatrics residencies until you have had the pediatrics core, unless this is scheduled late in the year, it will give you a sharper picture of how you feel you can integrate yourself into the world of pediatric healthcare. The number of solid pediatrics programs that thoroughly educate you and where you will see a large breadth of patients is enormously large.