Pediatric Training Experience

At the Guthrie – Robert Packer Hospital Emergency Medicine Program, we are dedicated to caring for the people and families of our community—especially children, who face unique challenges in a rural setting. To ensure our patients receive the highest level of care, we partner with national leaders in pediatric medicine, including Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Albany Medical Center. Together, we provide exceptional pediatric emergency training that prepares our physicians to deliver expert care when it matters most. 

At the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Emergency Department (CHOP), residents train in one of the world’s premier pediatric institutions, gaining exposure to a high-volume, high-acuity pediatric patient population in an urban level 1 pediatric trauma center. Residents work alongside pediatric emergency medicine faculty, pediatric subspecialists, and multidisciplinary care teams while managing complex medical, surgical, and traumatic conditions. This experience provides invaluable training in pediatric resuscitation, procedural skills, and the recognition and stabilization of rare and critically ill pediatric illnesses. Equally important, residents learn evidence-based approaches to pediatric emergency care in an academic environment that emphasizes teaching, collaboration, and patient-centered care. To take the stress off our learners we also provide turn key support for housing and transportation for our away rotations.

 

hildren's Hospital of Philadelphia Emergency Department (CHOP)
hildren's Hospital of Philadelphia Emergency Department (CHOP)

 

Additional pediatric critical care (PICU) and emergency medicine (PEM) experience is obtained through rotations at the Albany Medical Center’s Benard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital and at the Massry Family Children’s Emergency Center. The PICU rotation provides a concentrated experience in the management of critically ill children where as the PEM rotation provides experiential learning in the regions only pediatric level 1 trauma center.

 

Albany Medical Center’s Benard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital and at the Massry Family Children’s Emergency Center.
Albany Medical Center’s Benard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital and at the Massry Family Children’s Emergency Center.

 

Together, these training experiences provide Guthrie residents with the depth and breadth of pediatric emergency medicine to practice in any environment. More importantly for the rural communities Guthrie serves, residents return prepared to recognize, stabilize, and manage complex pediatric emergencies with confidence. Their advanced training enables them to deliver high-quality emergency care to children and families in communities where this level of care was once out of reach. 

This combination of tertiary pediatric training and rural emergency medicine practice reflects Guthrie’s mission to prepare physicians who are clinically excellent, adaptable, and deeply committed to the communities they serve.