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UCI-CHOC Pediatric Residency
A fully accredited, university-based program with access to two free-standing children's hospitals. Training takes place at the UC Irvine Medical Center, CHOC Children's Hospital and Miller Children's Hospital. We believe in providing our residents with a top-notch, broad-based educational experience.




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We welcome aspiring pediatricians who are equally committed to our philosophy -- that providing medical care for children is a privilege as well as a responsibility. Our program integrates patient care, didactic teaching, and research to fulfill this fundamental mission.
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A fully accredited, comprehensive care 493 bed hospital in the city of Orange. The medical center offers high-level medical and surgical inpatient services, including a regional burn unit and a county-wide Level I trauma referral center. Designated as a Level III regional perinatal center, the medical center provides the only combined tertiary referral center in the county for high-risk maternal and neonatal care. The center is also home to a full-scope child and adolescent medical-psychiatry unit. UC Irvine-affiliated ambulatory pediatric clinics provide outpatient primary care services. Residents rotate through the newborn nursery, NICU, subspecialty electives, and affiliated outpatient clinics. Read more...
A 279 bed free-standing children's hospital located in Orange. Together, with UC Irvine, CHOC is the largest provider of pediatric services in Orange County, receiving numerous awards in excellence as a premier children's hospital in California. As a full-scope children's hospital, CHOC offers inpatient and outpatient subspecialty care in a state-of-the-art facility with 6 specialties at CHOC being ranked among the nation's best according to U.S. News & World Report 2013-2014. Residents rotate through CHOC's inpatient wards, NICU, PICU, ED, primary care, and subspecialty services. Residents also rotate through CHOC's affiliated term nursery, surgical service, and outpatient clinics. Read more...
A 200 bed not-for-profit, pediatric teaching hospital, with over 8,000 pediatric admissions each year and 23,000 pediatric ED visits, Miller Children's provides an excellent opportunity for in-depth and comprehensive training in pediatric medicine. It is home to one of the largest neonatal intensive care units in California treating over 60 high-risk infants daily transferred from more than 20 hospitals, and a regional pediatric trauma center. It is nationally recognized for care provided in the Jonathan Jaques Children's Cancer Center and the Cystic Fibrosis Center. Residents rotate through MCH's inpatient wards, NICU, PICU, ED, primary care, and subspecialty services. Read more...