Career Development

There are a wide array of subspecialties within pediatrics to choose from, both ACGME and non-ACGME accredited. 

• Applying to Fellowships
  
• Description of Pediatric Subspecialties
• Elective Recommendations by Career Interest 

Applying for Fellowship

There are important distinctions between ERAS and NRMP as both require separate registrations and have different purposes. 

• Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) is where you will search, save, and apply to programs. This is also where you assign documents, manage track selections, and track the status of your documents by programs. 
  
• NRMP ("The Match") is where you rank the programs you are interested in. 

**Depending on the specialty you chose, you will need to determine whether they use ERAS (or have to apply directly to the programs) and if they participate in the match. 

Pediatric Specialties Fall Match (PSFM)—apply 1 year in advance

For specific application dates, see the NRMP website.

• Cardiology, Child abuse, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, Academic General Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Hematology/Oncology, Hospital Medicine, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Pulmonology, Rheumatology
  • Match Opens: September
  • Ranking Opens: October 
  • Rank List Deadline: November 
  • Match Day: December 

• Adolescent Medicine 
  • Match Opens: August
  • Ranking Opens: September
  • Rank List Deadline: October 
  • Match Day: November 

• Allergy/Immunology (under Medical Specialties Match) 
  • Match Opens: August
  • Ranking Opens: October 
  • Rank List Deadline: November 
  • Match Day: December
    

• Sports Medicine
  • Match Opens: October
  • Ranking Opens: November
  • Rank list Deadline: December
  • Match Day: January

• Sleep Medicine
  • Match Opens: August
  • Ranking Opens: September
  • Rank list Deadline: October
  • Match Day: October

• Pediatric Hospital Medicine Career Development Session PowerPoint
• Overview of Pediatric Hospital Medicine Careers
• Hospitalist Positions in the Bay Area

What is a Hospitalist?

• Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients.
• Hospitalist activities include patient care, teaching, research, and leadership related to hospital medicine.
• The term “hospitalist” was coined by Drs. Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman in a New England Journal of Medicine article in August of 1996 (N Engl J Med 1996;335:514-7)

Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowships

2-3 year fellowship

• Some fellowships offer the possibility of a Master’s Degree (MPH, MPP, MS, MEd)

Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship joined the Match in 2014, and became ACGME accredited beginning in 2020.

• Pediatric Specialties Fall Match (PSFM) – apply 1 year in advance
  • Match Opens: September
  • Ranking Opens: October
  • Rank List Deadline: November
    
  • Match Day: December

For specific application dates, see the NRMP website. See also phmfellows.org for details of specific fellowship programs

• Applying to General Pediatrics Positions
• AAP: Job Search Process

Outpatient primary care focuses on the general medical care of patients outside of the hospital in the clinic setting. Depending on the setting, both geographic location and community vs academic, there can be lots of variation in clinical job descriptions and can include: well care, acute/sick visits, newborn nursery, and hospitalized patients. 
 

Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship

Typically 2 years, but can be more depending on goals. Some fellowships offer the possibility of a Master’s Degree (MPH, MPP, MS, MEd).

Focuses:

• Research: Medical education, public policy & advocacy, health disparities, quality improvement, health care delivery systems, practice-based research and community interventions
• Education
• Career Development & Leadership 

Applications do not go through ERAS so each program has an individual process. See the Academic Pediatric Association (APA) website for list of current programs. 
 

Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship joined the Match in 2018

• Pediatric Specialties Fall Match (PSFM) – apply 1 year in advance
  • Match Opens: September
  • Ranking Opens: October
  • Rank List Deadline: November
    
  • Match Day: December

For specific application dates, see the NRMP website.

• Sample CV Template (Dr. Lahia Yemane)
  
• CV and Cover Letter Handout (Dr. Charles Prober)
• Physician Cover Letters: Why Writing a Good One is as Important as Ever
  

Fellowship: If you need a Letter of Recommendation from the Program Director, please complete the Qualtrics survey via the link below. You will need a copy of your CV to upload. In addition, you must email the Program Director (Carrie Rassbach) and Residency Coordinator (Michelle Brooks), notifying them that you are requesting a Letter of Recommendation. 

Please note, the survey asks for some information which you will not yet have at the time of submitting your request--that is okay and you should still submit to provide adequate time for the LOR to be prepared. The survey asks you which fellowship programs you are applying to, but this does not need to be your final choices. It also asks to upload your ERAS form (see sample here), which provides your LOR writers with instructions on submitting their LOR into your application; you will not have this until June when you can access the electronic application. Once you have this form, email it to Michelle Brooks.

Jobs: If you need a Letter of Recommendation from the Program Director, please complete the Qualtrics survey via the link below. You will need a copy of your CV to upload. In addition, you must email the Program Director (Carrie Rassbach) and Residency Coordinator (Michelle Brooks), notifying them that you are requesting a Letter of Recommendation.

Follow this link to the Qualtrics Survey*: 
Take the Survey

*Please allow at least two weeks turnaround from the time you submit the Qualtrics request.

• Fellowship Interview Tips
  
• Virtual Interviewing for Fellowship
• Mock Interview Questions
  
• Practice Mock Interview Video

Handling Finances During Residency

• General Information from the ABP
• Studying tips
• How to Access PREP Questions
• Pediatrics Boards Overview Session  |  Slides