St. Joseph's Healthcare System

The Pediatric Residency program is a three-year program with a strong emphasis on teaching and research. It is sponsored by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Our facility was one of the first Children's Hospitals in the State and includes a 26 bed General Pediatric service, a 10 bed Adolescent service, a 13 bed Pediatric ICU, a 30 bed Regional Neonatal Center, a 20 bed Intermediate Nursery, and a 30 bassinet full term nursery. The faculty represents every Pediatric medical and surgical subspecialty and all rotations are done on-site.

The Pediatric Hematology/Oncology department is affiliated with both the Morgan-Stanley Children's Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. As a referral center for many of the region's hospitals, a wide variety of pathology and diagnostic challenges provide learning opportunities for the residents. There is a strong emphasis on self-directed, hands-on teaching and learning. Staffed by friendly attending physicians, the Children's Hospital provides an atmosphere that is conducive to learning. All educational goals and objectives have been structured to foster development of the six competencies that the ACGME has advocated for life-long learning as physicians.

Scheduled conferences and rounds include: Morning Report, Family-centered Bedside Teaching Rounds, Resident Seminars, Grand Rounds, Noon Conferences, Subspecialty Conferences, Journal Club, an Emergency Pediatrics Series, a Board Review Series, and Research Methods Course.

Research is an integral component of our residency program. Each first year resident is required to attend the Research Methods Course taught by Dr. Vincent DeBari, PhD. Subsequently, each resident develops a project with faculty mentors. It is the expectation that each resident completes a research project over the course of his or her training.

Resident research projects and posters are presented at regional and national meetings.

Rotations

Resident Recognition / Awards

• The Miranda Award in Neonatology- Recognizes the outstanding resident in this field.
• Continuity Clinic- The James Morrill Continuity Clinic award recognizes an outstanding resident who exemplifies the spirit of continuity.
• The Best Teaching Resident Award- Recognizes a senior resident selected by his/her peers for outstanding commitment to teaching.

Other Programs Operated by the Children's Hospital

• Early Intervention Program: provides comprehensive educational and therapeutic interventions for the families of children under age three with delays or disabilities. It is funded by a grant from the New Jersey Department of Education.
• WIC Program: This federal program for Women, Infants and Children provides nutritional assessment, counseling, nutrition education and specified food supplements. It is often the entry point into systematic health care for children in our community. The main office is located on the SJHMC campus and 14 satellite sites are located among three northern New Jersey counties.
• Regional Craniofacial Center: A multi–disciplinary team of specialists provides education, consultation, diagnosis and treatment to pediatric patients with craniofacial disorders, including cleft lip and palate, velo–pharangeal abnormalities and feeding disorders.
• Feeding and Swallowing Center: also utilizes a multi-disciplinary team of specialists to analyze and propose remediation strategies for children who have significant feeding and swallowing issues of diverse etiologies.
• Teen Obstetrical program is operated jointly with the Department of Obstetrics and provides quality obstetrical care to adolescents.

For Pediatric Residency Program application criteria, please contact us: 973.754.2565.