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: 2000-2010

Specialty	% of Total	% Who Remained in SF Bay Area
Primary Care	43%	60%
Subspecialty	37%	52%
Hospitalist	20%	86%

Subspecialties: 2000-2010

Fellowship/Post-Graduate Training	Number of Residents
Infectious Disease	13
Neonatology	11
Cardiology	8
Critical Care	8
Endocrinology	7
Hematology-Oncology	6
Pediatric Emergency Medicine	6
Pulmonary	5
Neurology	5
Adolescent Medicine	3
Allergy	3
General Academic Pediatrics	3
Behavior-Development	3
Gastroenterology	3
Health Policy Research /Advocacy	2
Child Protection	2
CDC: Epidemiology Intelligence Service	2
Child Psychiatry	1
Renal	1
Rheumatology	1
Sports Medicine	1

Subspecialty Fellowship Location: 2000 - 2010

Institution	Number of Residents
Children's Hospital Oakland	17
Stanford	14
UCSF	12
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	7
Johns Hopkins	5
UC San Diego	5
CHOP	4
Children's Denver	4
Boston Children's	3
UC Davis	3
Baylor	2
Columbia	2
Pittsburgh	2
UCLA	2
Center for Disease Control	2
Many other sites with 1 each

Primary Care Settings: 2000 - 2010

Setting	%
Private practice	40%
Community Clinic	28%
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)	12%
National Health Service Corps	8%
General Academic pediatrics	6%
Foundation	5%

Hospitalist Settings: 2000 - 2010

Setting	%
Community Hospitals	75%
Academic Hospitals	25%