We have found a comfortable balance between independence and supervision. You are involved in patient care decisions at every juncture, and your responsibility grows as your experience and skills develop. With no private pediatricians on staff, all patient care decisions are made by residents in conjunction with almost 50 faculty members who work and teach at Stroger Hospital.  Education and scholarship are top priorities among the faculty and our chairman, who has a background in pediatric emergency medicine and health professions education and is a former residency program director.  

We serve a diverse population of patients from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds with a wide variety of medical problems. We see inner-city minority patients, middle class children without health insurance, families that have come to County for generations, and immigrants that arrived in the United States last week.  We treat general pediatric problems, identify and manage rare subspecialty conditions, see illnesses that are uncommon in populations with better access to medical care and even practice tropical medicine.