Like the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Pediatrics allows a research track. These special tracks are listed on the American Board of Pediatrics web site. However, unlike Internal Medicine, most pediatric programs do not appear to support this option. A number of programs and their web sites are listed below.
Special Tracks, American Board of Pediatrics: http://www.abp.org/
There are two programs that are relevant:
Integrated Research:
Accelerated Research:
Southeastern United States:
North Carolina
Duke University
Research Track in Pediatrics:
http://dukehealth1.org/childrens_services/mentored_research.asp
The site contains no information on how much research is allowed.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
No residency programs with a research component are apparent.
Tennessee
Vanderbilt University
http://www.vanderbiltchildrens.com/interior.php?mid=454
Residents can spend up to one-half day per week on research during the PGY-3 year. Residents can spend one elective (one month) in research during their intern year.
Midwest
Missouri
Washington University in Saint Louis
http://peds.wustl.edu/residency/description.html
Residents have up to one month in the PGY-2 and PGY-3 years for "scholarly pursuits."
Texas
University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/schools/med/ped/
Residents are "encouraged" to participate in research but no specific research track exists.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept151858/files/151773.html
It is not clear but it appears the same program for research in internal medicine can also be undertaken in Pediatrics.
Baylor College of Medicine
Pediatrics does not appear to offer a research track but does allow up to six months of electives in PGY-2 and PGY-3 (2 months and 4 months, respectively).
Michigan
University of Michigan
http://www.med.umich.edu/pediatrics/education/pedres/phdapplicant.htm
Illinois
University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine
http://pediatrics.uchicago.edu/residency/program.asp
PGY-3 residents have one free month that may be used for research.
Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine
http://www.childrensmemorial.org/professionals/pediatric/research.asp
The program, through Children's memorial hospital "offers flexibility" and aims to recruit "MD/PhD candidates into the residency program." However, no specifics are offered.
Far West
California
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.mattel.ucla.edu/res/researchtk2.html
The research track provides ten months of dedicated elective time that can be used for research.
University of California, San Diego
UCSD does not appear to support research during the three years of pediatric residency. However, UCSD does have a PGY-4 year (Chief Resident) when research can be performed.
University of California, San Francisco
There is no evidence of any research track in pediatrics at UCSF.
Stanford University
http://med.stanford.edu/pedsres/resident.html
With "careful planning" research electives may be scheduled. There is no research track.
Northeast
Connecticut
Yale University
http://med.stanford.edu/pedsres/resident.html
Yale does not appear to have a research component to its Pediatrics residency program.
Massachusetts
Boston University
http://www.childrenshospital.org/training/pedres1/program.html#categorical
BU pediatrics indicates that it accepts residents into both the integrated and accelerated research pathways but that "most residents participate in the standard three year curriculum."
New York
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/pediatrics/education/investigators.shtml
Unlike most pediatric residency programs Columbia clearly indicates that it has a research track called the "Pediatric Investigators Track".
New York University
http://www.med.nyu.edu/pediatrics/residency/residency/clin_ed.html
NYU pediatrics does not have a research track.
Cornell University
http://www.nycornell.org/pediatrics/
PGY-3 students are required to complete a research project but there is no research track and no clear support/time for research.
Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania Department of Pediatrics does not have a website.
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.chp.edu/providers/pro2res2.php
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh does not offer a research track.
