Former chief residents Tammy Wang, MD, Elizabeth Bassett, MD, and Mili Shah, MD.
Children's Hospital Oakland
Residency Program
Life after residency
Graduates of our residency training program easily find positions in a variety of settings. The number choosing primary care is about equal to the number choosing to continue training in a subspecialty fellowship — at Children's Hospital Oakland or at other top programs around the country.
Where our graduating residents go, and what they do:
Type of Medicine (2000 - 2006):
- Primary Care 39%
- Subspecialty 39%
- Hospitalist 22%
Primary Care: Geographical Location (2000 - 2006)
- Bay Area.............61%
- Non Bay Area......39%
Subspecialty: Geographical Location (2000 - 2006)
- Subspecialty Fellowship Bay Area...............52%
- Subspecialty Fellowship Non Bay Area........48%
Hospitalist: Geographical Location (2000 - 2006)
- Hospitalist - Bay Area...............86%
- Hospitalist - Non Bay Area........14%
Primary Care Settings (2000 - 2006)
- Private practice........................47%
- Community Clinic....................25%
- Nat'l Health Service Corps........10%
- Gen'l Academic pediatrics.........10%
- HMO........................................8%
Subspecialty Fellowship Choices (2000 - 2006)
- 10 Infectious Diseases
- 5 Neonatology
- 5 Critical Care
- 4 Cardiology
- 4 Endocrinology
- 4 Neurology
- 3 Hematology/Oncology
- 3 ED
- 3 Gen'l Academic Pediatrics
- 2 Anesthesia
- 2 Pulmonary
- 2 CDC: Epidemiology Intelligence Service
- 1 Gastroenterology
- 1 Rheumatology
- 1 Nephrology
- 1 Allergy
- 1 Adolescent
- 1 Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
- 1 Child Psychiatry
- 1 Sports Medicine
Subspecialty Fellowship Locations: 2000 - 2006
Graduating residents doing fellowships
- 13 - Children’s Oakland
- 10 - University of California, San Francisco
- 10 - Stanford University
- 4 - Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- 3 - University of California, Davis
- 2 - Boston Children’s Hospital
- 2 - Columbia University
- 2 - Johns Hopkins University
- 2 - Pittsburgh
- 2 - University of California, San Diego
- 2 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hospitalist Settings
- Community Hospitals – 75%
- Academic Hospitals – 25%
Children's Hospital Oakland's reputation as an outstanding training program for primary care physicians serves our residents well. Every year private practices, large HMOs and community clinics compete for our graduates.
The close-knit pediatric community of the San Francisco East Bay includes a remarkable number of graduates from our training program, many of whom continue their involvement at Children's through service as monthly ward attendings.
The members of our teaching faculty actively help residents make career decisions. Recognizing that career choices can change dramatically during training, discussion of this topic is an important part of twice-yearly resident evaluation sessions with the residency program director. During elective months residents are encouraged to spend time in settings they may consider for future employment.
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