Thank you for your interest in the Rush Pediatrics Residency program. We believe that your residency training has the utmost influence on the way you will practice pediatrics. Regardless of your ultimate career goal, our comprehensive program will enable you to develop the skills and competencies of an excellent pediatrician.

Residents learn to apply basic science and clinical knowledge to solving their patients' health problems. In rounds and conferences we emphasize the problem-oriented system as a way to analyze clinical situations. Responsibility is assumed in a step-wise fashion and training is broad-based, resulting in easy transition into subsequent primary care positions or fellowship training. More than half of our graduates enter careers in primary care. Those who have chosen fellowship training have gone on to outstanding subspecialty programs.

As a children's hospital within Rush University Medical Center, the largest private hospital in Chicago, we take advantage of interactions with other departments of Rush Medical College and Rush University. This results in expanding house staff opportunities, both clinical and educational. To broaden the scope of clinical experiences for our residents, we utilize our affiliate hospitals, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, and Misericordia Hospital for Developmental Disabilities. Our patient mix presents an extraordinary diversity of clinical challenges.

We are pleased you have chosen pediatrics for your career. To us, it is the medical specialty that brings us the greatest joy, challenge and the sense that we have made a contribution to the future.

We invite you to review the Rush Pediatric Pages and visit Rush Children's Hospital to determine whether our philosophy and our teaching program make this the right program for you.

Kenneth M. Boyer, MD
Chairman
Department of Pediatrics