Life after Residency

Recognizing that career choices can change dramatically during training, career counseling is an important part of the twice-yearly resident meetings with the residency program directors.

In addition to the program directors, members of our teaching faculty actively help residents make career decisions and find positions in a variety of professional settings, including some of the most competitive subspecialty fellowships and most highly regarded primary care medical groups and community clinics in the Bay Area and across the US.

Residents' Career Choices

Area of Medicine: 2000-2009

Specialty	% of Total	% Who Remained in SF Bay Area
Primary Care	42%	59%
Subspecialty	37%	51%
Hospitalist	20%	86%

Subspecialties: 2000-2009

Fellowship/Post-Graduate Training	Number of Residents
Infectious Disease	13
Neonatology	9
Cardiology	7
Critical Care	7
Endocrinology	6
Hematology-Oncology	6
Pediatric Emergency Medicine	6
Pulmonary	5
Neurology	4
Adolescent Medicine	3
Allergy	3
General Academic Pediatrics	3
Behavior-Development	3
CDC: Epidemiology Intelligence Service	2
Health Policy Research /Advocacy	2
Child Protection	2
Gastroenterology	2
Child Psychiatry	1
Renal	1
Rheumatology	1
Sports Medicine	1

Subspecialty Fellowship Location: 2000 - 2009

Institution	Number of Residents
Children's Hospital Oakland	17
Stanford	14
UCSF	11
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	7
Boston Children's	3
CHOP	3
Children's Denver	3
UC Davis	3
UC San Diego	3
Columbia	2
Johns Hopkins	2
Baylor	2
Pittsburgh	2
Center for Disease Control	2

Primary Care Settings: 2000 - 2009

Setting	%
Private practice	42%
Community Clinic	28%
National Health Service Corps	10%
General Academic pediatrics	10%
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)	10%

Hospitalist Settings: 2000 - 2009

Setting	%
Community Hospitals	75%
Academic Hospitals	25%