The Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine - Baylor Scott & White Pediatrics Residency is a three year program fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)

Welcome! Thank you for your interest in our program. 

Our program mission is to transform medical students into skillful pediatricians who provide compassionate care for patients, families, and the community while retaining the joy in medicine and academic curiosity.  We accomplish this mission through our five aims:

  • To train pediatricians we would personally choose to care for our children and loved ones
  • 100% pass rate on the American Board of Pediatrics certifying exam
  • Support residents as front-line physicians and also as people with lives outside of medicine
  • Graduate residents who consistently place in the practice or fellowship of their choice
  • Develop life-long advocates for children in our community and beyond

 

Como el mayor sistema sanitario sin ánimo de lucro de Texas y uno de los mayores de Estados Unidos, Baylor Scott & White atiende a 41 condados a través de 52 hospitales, más de 1,200 puntos de acceso, más de 7,100 médicos en activo, más de 52,000 miembros del equipo y el Plan de Salud Baylor Scott & White.

Plan de estudios

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  • Sobre el programa

    Sobre el programa


    Our program is dedicated to educating residents on the knowledge and skills necessary to practice patient-based pediatrics.

    The department has more than 60 full-time teaching faculty specializing in:

    • Pediatria general
    • Medicina adolescente
    • Anestesiología Pediátrica
    • Cardiología pediátrica
    • Child Abuse/Forensics
    • Dermatología Pediátrica
    • Endocrinología Pediátrica
    • Genética
    • Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
    • Pediatric Hospital Medicine
    • Enfermedad infecciosa pediátrica
    • Pediatric Intensive Care
    • Neonatología
    • Nefrología Pediátrica
    • Neurología pediátrica
    • Neurocirugía Pediátrica
    • Otorrinolaringología Pediátrica
    • Ortopedia Pediátrica
    • Podología pediátrica
    • Radiología pediátrica
    • Pediatric Psychiatry
    • Neumología Pediátrica
    • Medicina pediátrica del sueño
    • Cirugía Pediátrica
    • Urología pediátrica

    Approximately 60-70 percent of our graduates have entered primary care and 30-40 percent have entered pediatric academic fellowships such as neonatology, nephrology, critical care, emergency medicine, hematology/oncology, pediatric hospital medicine, pulmonology, endocrinology, adolescent medicine, anesthesiology and gastroenterology.

  • PGY-1

    PGY-1


    During the first year of training, our pediatric residents are introduced to foundational clinical and scholarly experiences through integration into varied clinical settings with exposure to a diverse patient population. PGY-1 residents build upon their undergraduate medical education competencies in the ability to perform thorough but focused age-appropriate histories and physical examinations in the inpatient and outpatient settings. PGY-1 residents develop patient appropriate assessments and management plans with the guidance of their upper-level residents and faculty. They learn to identify levels of illness severity and begin to address psychosocial and environmental influencers to care delivery. In the first year of training, residents begin to establish their panel of continuity clinic patients at their continuity clinic site.

    As they progress through the first year, PGY-1 residents are encouraged in their ability to independently seek knowledge and critique medical literature through a structured evidence-based medicine curriculum. They are coached in their ability to be “Residents Educators” for both their teammates and their patient families. They are also introduced to Quality Improvement concepts and begin a project relevant to their career interests, with the guidance of an experienced faculty mentor.

    Throughout the first year of training, residents establish a framework of understanding of pediatric practice that incorporates issues of child health advocacy, preventive health care, clinical ethics and effective cost containment into each aspect of their future experiences.


    PGY1
    Inpatient (MSU) 3 blocks
    Inpatient Sub-Specialty (Heme/Onc) 1 block
    Inpatient Selective 0.25 block
    Desarrollo infantil 1 block
    UCIN 1 block
    Outpatient Clinic 1 block
    Guardería 1 block
    Forensics (Child Protection Team) 0.5 block
    Electivo 1.5 blocks
    Scholarly Activity 0.5 block
    Community Advocacy 0.5 block
    Pediatric Emergency Medicine 1 block
    Vacation 0.75 block
    Continuity Care Clinic 1/2 day per week
  • PGY-2

    PGY-2


    The second year of pediatric training builds upon the skill and knowledge base established in the first year and uses evidence-based medicine to enhance patient care and self-improvement. During the year, PGY-2 residents refine their clinical assessment skills. They also broaden the scope and complexity of the health care problems they address and critically analyze their performance and patient outcomes.

    PGY-2 residents are exposed to in-depth experiences in a variety of subspecialty areas, including adolescent medicine . They expand their practice experience and demonstrate greater clinical competency and efficiency in providing care to patients with a broader range of disease complexity. In the primary care setting, residents gain increasing responsibility and autonomy to begin functioning in an effective supervisor role for interns and medical students.

    Residents enhance their teaching role at the bedside and expand their teaching efforts in the conference room. They learn to develop effective group teaching sessions and to efficiently utilize available teaching materials and literary resources. Via exposure to an expansive number of pediatric experiences, the PGY-2 residents begin to focus their career planning deliberations through discussions with faculty advisors and successfully develop their future practice interests. PGY-2 residents affirm their role as trusted child health advocates, preventive primary care providers and ethical and cost-effective practitioners.


    PGY-2
    Inpatient (MSU) 2.5 blocks
    Inpatient Sub-Specialty (Heme/Onc) 0.75 block
    Inpatient Selective 0.25 block
    PICU 1 block
    UCIN 1 block
    Medicina adolescente 1 block
    Pediatric Emergency Medicine 1 block
    Guardería 0.5 block
    Electives 4 blocks
    Community Advocacy 0.25 block
    Vacation 0.75 block
    Continuity Care Clinic 1/2 day per week
  • PGY-3

    PGY-3


    PGY-3 residents continue to expand their pediatric knowledge base through additional supervisory, subspecialty, and intensive care rotations. As they prepare for the American Board of Pediatrics certifying examination, there is opportunity to spend dedicated time to study. Residents further refine their competence in clinical diagnostic evaluations and technical procedural skills and in their patient stabilization, office preparedness and telephone triaging abilities. They practice pediatrics efficiently and effectively with a significant degree of independence and demonstrate level-appropriate leadership, confidence and supervisory capabilities.

    PGY-3 residents assert their preceptorial and group-teaching skills as they expand their capacity to critically evaluate the medical literature and to teach other healthcare professionals and multiple level learners in a “round” format with a concurrent, patient-care service function. Residents complete a scholarly activity that will be submitted for presentation and/or publication. Third-year residents develop focused sign-out skills to facilitate continuity of care and learn how to expand these skills to apply to the community practice setting. They bring appropriate closure to their resident continuity care clinic experience and, while establishing successful lifelong learning habits, they complete plans for their future careers in primary care practice or in additional fellowship training. PGY-3 residents participate at the community level in preventing or solving child healthcare problems, publicly, promote preventive healthcare and advocate for children's causes.


    PGY-2
    Inpatient (MSU) 4 blocks
    Inpatient Selective 0.25 block
    PICU 1 block
    Outpatient clinic 1 block
    Pediatric Urgent Care 1 block
    Guardería 0.5 block
    Electives 4 blocks
    Board review 0.25 block
    Community Advocacy 0.25 block
    Vacation 0.75 block
    Continuity Care Clinic 1/2 day per week
  • Telefono

    Telefono


    There is no traditional 24-hour in-house call; residents complete a night float rotation Our program strictly adheres to the duty hours restrictions outlined by the ACGME, with zero duty hour violations. There is a resident back-up schedule to provide coverage in the event that the assigned resident is unable to fulfill scheduled responsibilities.




    Flotador nocturno

    Night float is a 1-2 week rotation of night shifts on the inpatient pediatric service integrated into each PICU and MSU inpatient rotation.




    Jeopardy Call

    The jeopardy call resident is available as back-up for inpatient rotations (MSU/PICU/NICU/nursery) in the event of illness. Currently, PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents cover 2-3 half blocks PGY-1 residents cover 2 half blocks.

  • Conferences

    Conferences


    Attendance at scheduled conferences is monitored, with a goal of 70% attendance to account for clinical obligations and time off. The conference series addresses the first three aims of the program, with a primary emphasis on successful passage of the American Board of Pediatrics exam following completion of the training program.




    Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds

    Weekly Grand Rounds speakers include Baylor Scott & White pediatric medical staff, guest lecturers and residents . Several of the guest speakers are known nationally or internationally in their area of expertise. General and subspecialty clinical issues, health policy and pediatric research are some examples of the types of topics presented.




    Core curriculum (half-day conference)

    Residents have weekly half day conference led by various faculty and staff members. They cover a broad range of board-relevant topics that encompass both general and subspecialty clinical areas. Additional topics such as excellence in telemedicine, billing/coding, child advocacy, residents as teachers, evidence based medicine, quality improvement, procedural skills, food insecurities, and social determinants of health supplement the core medical knowledge series.




    Club de diarios

    A discussion based, multidisciplinary journal club series is facilitated by PGY-3's who are mentored by faculty in their areas of clinical expertise. Residents read an article of current literature to facilitate discussion and focus on mastering evidence-based medicine concepts through guided practice.




    Simulation training

    Simulation is shifting the paradigm of medical education from didactic lectures to a hands-on approach. Simulation also supports the practice of safer medicine.

    In pediatrics, the residents perform mock codes both in the simulation center and at the bedside under the supervision of one of the PICU/MSU physicians. The attending physicians also work one-on-one with residents throughout the course of their residency to become more comfortable with specific procedures, including bag-valve mask technique, neonatal and pediatric intubations, central line placement, IV placement, and other resuscitation skills.

    Learn more about clinical simulation education at Baylor Scott & White




    BIENESTAR

    Our residency wellness events vary from group discussions to social gatherings as well as annual program wide and class specific retreats.

  • Investigación

    Investigación


    Quality improvement - Residents participate in ONE quality improvement project that impacts their learning or patient care environment to facilitate the delivery of safer, more effective patient care or high impact learning. They also have the option to engage in a multitude of ongoing projects within the institution.  All QI projects are done with the guidance of a faculty mentor.

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    Residents will choose one or more additional option from below:

    • Hypothesis driven Research project
    • Poster & Case Report write-up to be submitted for publication
    • QI project (additional)- with particular attention to publishing and/or presenting at conference

    For each of the above projects, residents work closely with a research mentor

    Residents will have the opportunity to present their scholarly activity at Resident Research Day. Residents are strongly encouraged to present at local, regional and national conferences. These presentations can be funded by our GME department.

Program culture and what sets us apart

Cómo aplicar

We use the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) to electronically accept residency applications, letters of recommendations, dean’s letters, transcripts and other credentials directly from your medical school.

Visit ERAS® to apply now




Our program places emphasis on the following:

  • A CV that includes volunteer service, academic awards/achievements, extracurricular activities, etc.
  • A passing score on the USMLE/COMLEX on Steps I & II (no more than 2 attempts). A step II score is not required for application but should be passed prior to beginning rank list submission.
  • A personal statement
  • Evidence in the above materials that reflect excellence in teamwork, service, and/or leadership

Pediatric residency administration reviews all applications received and grants interviews on a competitive basis. Accepted applicants are contacted via email to schedule an interview.



Learn more about Baylor Scott & White's housestaff appointment eligibility, including guidelines for international medical graduates.

Profesorado y residentes

Our dedicated faculty, with diverse expertise and a passion for teaching, offers invaluable mentorship and our talented residents bring enthusiasm and fresh perspectives to patient care. Together, they create a supportive community committed to excellence in medical education and compassionate care.

Join us in shaping the future of healthcare! 

Train at one of U.S. News & World Report's top hospitals in Texas

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple is a 640-bed teaching and research hospital with a Level I trauma center.

Working at Baylor Scott & White Health

Estipendio y prestaciones

Además de estipendios competitivos, ofrecemos a nuestros residentes un menú completo de beneficios para empleados. Ayudamos a compensar el coste de muchas de estas prestaciones; otras son opciones que puede elegir pagar usted mismo.

Recursos de Bienestar

Este momento de su carrera profesional puede ser extremadamente difícil. Como estudiante de posgrado en medicina de Baylor Scott & White, tiene a su disposición una gran variedad de recursos que le permitirán sacar el máximo partido a su experiencia educativa.

Life in Temple

Temple uniquely offers a combination of access to big-city conveniences while maintaining a small-town atmosphere.

Contáctanos

Kessiah Foster, BBA
Program Administrator

Pediatrics Residency
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple

McLane Children's
1901 SW HK Dodgen Loop
MS-CK-300
Templo, tx 76502
Email: PediatricResidency@BSWHealth.org

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Templo
2401 S. 31st St.
Templo, tx 76508


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