Pediatric Education

The purpose of the Pediatric Teaching Program is to provide:

• Community-based education for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Pediatric Residents.
• Pediatric training for Cone Health Family Medicine Residents.
• A complete five-week inpatient clerkship for UNC medical students.
• A month-long acting internship experience for fourth-year UNC medical students.
• Additional medical student education for UNC's Community Based Longitudinal Care (CBLC) course.
• Inpatient, nursery, consultative and educational services for community pediatricians and family practitioners.
• A venue for research, curriculum development and child advocacy

Faculty:

• Ten full-time faculty and numerous part-time and affiliated faculty. Cone Health is designated as an integrated institution within the UNC Pediatric Residency Program.
• Subspecialties include asthma/allergy, developmental pediatrics, genetics, neonatology, pediatric cardiology, pediatric critical care, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric neurology, pediatric psychology, pediatric pulmonology, and pediatric surgery.

Pediatric Sites:

The Pediatric Teaching Program functions within Cone Health, which serves the healthcare needs of people in Greensboro and Guilford County as well as many neighboring counties.

Pediatric venues include:

• A dedicated pediatric inpatient service and pediatric intensive care unit within a 628-bed not-for-profit hospital.
• A Women's and Children's Center that has more than 6,000 deliveries/year and a Level III NICU.
• An 11-bed pediatric emergency department with dedicated resuscitation and behavioral health rooms staffed by fellowship-trained Pediatric Emergency Physicians who care for more than 20,000 pediatric visits per year.
• The Tim and Carolynn Rice Center for Child and Adolescent Health, a primary care practice, serving patients from birth to age 21, providing well visits, sick-child care and a wide range of services for children who are chronically ill, developmentally delayed or affected by mental health issues.