>> One of the great things about CHOP is just it opens all the doors that you could ever
hope to have opened.
>> Being at CHOP really taught me a number of things that makes me the pediatrician that
I am today.
>> I'm inspired by my patients, because it makes me think that if they can keep going
after everything they've been through, then I can certainly keep going and working on
their behalf.
>> We're fortunate to be in an institution that has so many mentors of such a wide breadth.
It's an amazing group of people.
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>> Our residency training program has been ranked the top training program in the country
in pediatrics.
And I feel great pride in being able to say that.
And I think many across the institution share that same feeling of pride.
We have a remarkably talented group of residents.
They're talented as pediatricians.
They're talented as people.
And there's an impressive chemistry that exists among them.
>> CHOP residents are really a family.
I think that we all realize that these three years are tough.
We work long hours.
We see difficult things.
We deal with a lot of emotions from patients and families, and CHOP residents really look
out for each other.
>> Yeah this is definitely a team sport.
There's absolutely no way around it.
We have a fantastic team of people.
And I think that's one of the things that sets CHOP apart from other
institutions is that our teamwork is just amazing.
>> The hospital is interested in ensuring that we remain the top residency training
program in the country.
The hospital recognizes how important the residents are to the care that we deliver
to patients day in and day out, and they also appreciate that the residents are our future.
Many of our faculty were residents here at CHOP or fellows here at CHOP.
>> Being at CHOP was a tremendous preparation for being a physician and a pediatrician.
We see everything here in terms of clinical diagnoses.
Everything under the sun.
And clinical entities that other people just dream of or read about in textbooks we would
see here.
So our clinical experience is tremendous.
>> The training that you get here and the people that guide you through it are really
the best in the world, and they're internationally renowned.
Yet you would never know it from your interactions with them, because they're some of the most
humble people that I've had a chance to run into, and they're just passing on all this
wisdom to you.
It's a really great experience.
>> We're very interested in attracting a diverse group of residents.
Diverse in terms of background and diverse in terms of career interests.
We feel that diversity is really critical in terms of creating an environment that's
rich for learning pediatrics, rich for deliveringpediatric care.
>> The diversity here at CHOP spans everything.
You name it, we've got it here.
We embraced it before people required us to embrace that.
>> CHOP is where I learned to be a pediatrician in the first place.
CHOP is where I learned to be an educator.
There's an impressive range of opportunities in pediatrics, which is part of the appeal
of the field to me.
An individual could be a general pediatrician, a primary care pediatrician, a subspecialist.
>> One of the reasons I chose CHOP was definitely the global health track.
There's a hospitalist track.
There's a primary care track.
>> We work in our emergency department.
We work in outpatient clinics.
We also work in our N/IICU and our pediatric ICU, on our oncology units.
>> It was exhilarating to walk around these halls every day and interact with people from
different disciplines who are asking all kinds of interesting and different questions, and
all doing it because they care about kids and want to make their lives better.
>> There is a reward every day, kind of when you leave every room, and there's definitely
the challenges, but the rewards greatly outweigh them.
>> I'm humbled by how impressive this institution is and the work that it does to influence
patient care and child health more broadly.
And I feel very lucky to be a part of the institution and to have the responsibilities
that I do.