SCHNEIDER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

Pediatric Residency Program

Program Directors Welcome Statement

It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to the Schneider Children's Hospital website, and to provide you with information about our graduate training program. One of the most important decisions in your professional and personal life is choosing a training program to foster your career goals. We appreciate your interest in our program, and are eager to help you any way we can with your transition from medical school to residency.

As the Long Island campus for the New York University School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, our commitment is to provide the highest standard of pediatric education through the delivery of state-of-the-art, comprehensive care in an academic and research-oriented environment. The Pediatric Training Program, in existence since 1954, is one of the country's most effective and prestigious. Residents are supervised by more than 150 full-time pediatric faculty members, who specialize in all subspecialty areas of pediatric medicine. Our fine reputation is confirmed by generations of graduates who are now successful clinicians, researchers and academicians.

To ensure a positive experience for our residents, we provide personalized, one-on-one training. Each new house officer is assigned one of the program directors as a mentor who is responsible for custom-tailoring a professionally fulfilling and personally enjoyable three years of training through individualized feedback and discussion. A Core Curriculum with well-defined educational goals has been developed for all rotations and electives. This is fully integrated into bedside teaching and covers the entire training experience.
The training program encompasses the full gamut of pediatrics from well-baby care and preventive medicine to emergency, intensive care and subspecialty services. Special programs include the Child Development Center, Asthma Center, Epilepsy Center, Child Protective Service, Child Advocacy, Heart Institute, Apnea Program, Cystic Fibrosis Center, Lyme Disease Center, Eating Disorders and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit.

We are most pleased that you have chosen Pediatrics as your career. The commitment to the care of infants, children and adolescents is one of the most rewarding experiences for a physician. Few other specialties can make such an impact on the future of our nation.
We look forward to having you visit us and working with you on fulfilling your goals.

Sincerely,

Fredrick Bierman, MD
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
Schneider Children's Hospital

Stephen Barone, MD
Program Director
Schneider Children's Hospital

Robert Katz, MD
Associate Program Director
Schneider Children's Hospital

Robert Cassidy, PhD
Associate Program Director
Schneider Children's Hospital