The Emory Pediatrics Residency Program strives
to produce pediatricians who possess outstanding clinical competence,
exceptional technical skills, and a lifelong passion for inquiry.
We also foster an environment of care and compassion for patients,
families, and colleagues. Graduates of the Emory program are
well-prepared to enter general pediatric practice, subspecialty
training, or a career in teaching and research.
Residency training at Emory provides the trainee with a diverse
set of skills which are obtained through rotating at our clinical
sites. The differences and strengths of our clinical sites expose
the resident to a wide range of pediatric conditions, from common
general pediatric problems to the most complicated intensive
care patients.
The principal sites for inpatient pediatric residency training
are: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding, Grady Memorial Hospital,
and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.
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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) is a not-for-profit
organization formed in 1998 when Egleston Children's Hospital
and Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center joined to form
a unified healthcare system. In 2006, Children’s assumed
managerial control of Hughes Spalding Children’s Hospital
on the Grady campus. The Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
hospitals are consistently counted among the best pediatric
hospitals in the country by US News & World Report, Child
Magazine, and Parents Magazine.
CHOA is the largest pediatric healthcare systems in the Southeast,
and among the largest in the United States. In 2008 the combined
practice included:
• 553,069 patient visits
• 24,037 hospital admissions
• 141,669 inpatient days
• 529,032 outpatient visits
• 38,174 surgical procedures (inpatient and outpatient)
• 170,288 Emergency department visits
Residents in the Emory program work primarily on the Egleston
and Hughes Spalding campuses. Over the course of 36 months
of training, residents gain approximately 55 percent of their
experience at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston,
40 percent of their experience on the Grady/Hughes Spalding
campus, and one month as a PL-3 at Scottish Rite.
Children's
Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston is a 255 bed
hospital with approximately 10,000 admissions per year. The
hospital was founded in 1928 as the Henrietta Egleston Hospital
for Children, and it’s affiliation as Emory University’s
pediatric teaching affiliate dates back to 1956. In 2007 a
major expansion was completed as part of a $365 million project.
This expansion added approximately 375,900 square feet of
new space and 95,800 square feet of renovated space to the
hospital. The expansion allowed for increased sizes and improvements
in many units including the PICU (now 30 beds), Aflac Cancer
Center (now 34 beds), Emergency Room (doubled in size), and
Sibley Heart Center (now 54 beds). Egleston offers a full
complement of subspecialty services and is able to provide
care for a range of patients dealing with common pediatric
ailments, to complex patients requiring organ or bone marrow
transplantation, or ICU patients requiring ECMO.

Children's
Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding
is a freestanding pediatric hospital located in downtown Atlanta,
on the campus of the Grady Health System. The hospital offers
care to both inpatients with an 18 bed pediatric unit and
a busy 24 hour emergency care center that sees more than 50,000
visits each year. The outpatient clinics include the Pediatric
Appointment Clinic (one of the main outpatient primary care
experiences for residents), along with subspecialty services
including an Asthma Center, Child Protection Clinic, and the
Aflac Blood Disorders Service Sickle Cell Disease and Hematology
Clinic. Ground was broken in 2008 for a $43 million replacement
building which will be completed in 2009 that will provide
a brand new expanded facility for both inpatient, outpatient,
and emergency room care.
Grady Memorial
Hospital Nurseries
Grady originally opened in 1882 with 110 beds and now stands
as one of the largest public health systems in the United
States. Grady Memorial Hospital currently holds 953 beds,
and serves as the primary site for Emory Pediatric Residents
to obtain delivery room and nursery experience throughout
their training. Annually over 4,000 newborns are delivered
at Grady Hospital. Residents rotate through the newborn term
nursery, as well as the NICU, a level 3 neonatal unit featuring
multidisciplinary support for its 42 NICU/ventilator beds
and 27 intermediate care nursery beds.
Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite is
located on the perimeter of Atlanta, and currently holds 249
beds including 172 general pediatric beds and 77 intensive
care beds, and also manages approximately 10,000 admissions
per year. Residents currently rotate through Scottish Rite
one month during third year and on an elective basis. These
rotations allow them to experience a private-practice full-time
pediatric hospitalist model. This allows our senior residents
to have the opportunity to work individually with hospitalist
faculty in a more community oriented setting, providing additional
exposure contrasted with the more traditional academically
structured services.

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