We have the privilege of a rich clinical experience spanning multiple inpatient and outpatient settings.

Inpatient

Our residents take care of a wide variety of diagnoses and patient populations. Services included:

  • Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine (General Pediatrics)
  • Subspecialty admissions: Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Cardiology, Infectious Disease, Rheumatology, Endocrinology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Hematology/Oncology
  • Inpatient Nights: provides a unique experience to cover both PHM and subspecialty patients
  • Neonatology
  • Pediatric Critical Care
  • Newborn Nursery

In addition to core rotations at Comer Children’s Hospital, residents also have the opportunity to rotate through multiple affiliated hospitals, each one offering unique learning experiences and patient populations. These include:

  • Northshore Evanston Hospital: General Pediatrics floor, Nursery, Neonatology, and clinics
  • St. Anthony Hospital: General Pediatrics floor

Outpatient

Our residents have continuity clinics through Friend Health and Erie Family Health Center clinics. All of these clinics are Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), providing comprehensive care to underserved and under-resourced patient populations.

Electives

All of our residents complete the following electives to provide well-rounded and thorough exposures to the numerous aspects of pediatric growth, development, and illness:

  • Adolescent Medicine
  • Community Medicine
  • Ambulatory Medicine
  • Child Advocacy and Protective Services
  • Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
  • Infectious Diseases

In addition, residents and students also participate in additional outpatient or inpatient electives, with many allowing for blended inpatient-outpatient experiences. These current include:

  • Allergy and Immunology
  • Cardiology
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Chronic Care – La Rabida
  • Dermatology
  • Endocrinology
  • ENT
  • Ethics
  • Evanston Ambulatory
  • Gastroenterology
  • General Care Nursery (Evanston)
  • Genetics and Dysmorphology
  • Hematology/Oncology
  • Hospitalist Elective (Evanston/Highland Park)
  • Independent Study
  • Mobile Van
  • Nephrology
  • Neurology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Palliative Care
  • Pediatric Surgery
  • Pediatric Critical Care (PICU) Elective
  • Psychiatry
  • Pulmonology
  • Radiology
  • Rheumatology
  • Sedation/Procedural Service
  • Sports Medicine
  • Teaching
  • Toxicology
  • Transition Care
  • Transplant ID