Pediatrics Residency Program

The Medical Center Navicent Health

The Medical Center Navicent Health, involved in medical education since 1901, is recognized as one of the best hospitals in the country"¦ recently ranked as one of the top 100 nationally for clinical outcomes and cost effectiveness and one of the top 20 for teaching hospitals of comparable size. It is a 603 bed, not-for-profit community hospital serving Central and South Georgia - a primary market of 300,000 and a secondary market of some 1,000,000.

The Medical Center of Central Georgia is fully accredited by the joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and currently offers residency programs in family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery, internal medicine, psychiatry, and pediatrics. It is the primary teaching hospital for Mercer University School of Medicine and a tertiary referral facility for pediatrics, adult and child trauma, neuro-intensive care and obstetrics. The Medical Center offers you all the advantages of a major teaching hospital, as well as the rewards of training in a true community hospital.

The Mercer University School of Medicine is less than a five-minute drive from the Medical Center. Beyond the obvious benefits of its medical library and other educational assets, its proximity also allows you to train in its clinics at the Mercer University Infirmary and Mercer Health Systems. The Infirmary houses four examination rooms, ten beds for overnight stays and fully equipped procedure room.

Atrium Health Navicent Children's Care Downtown Macon, a Facility of Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center Center, Atrium Health Navicent

One of the highlights of your residency will be the outpatient experience. Directly across the street from The Medical Center is our Atrium Health Navicent Children's Care Downtown Macon, a Facility of Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center Center. Established in 1995, it is home to our ambulatory pediatric patients. On the second floor, you will gain valuable outpatient experience in the management of a wide variety of cases through general ambulatory patients. Just one floor down in The Atrium Health Navicent Children's Care Downtown Macon, a Facility of Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center Center is our continuity clinic, where you will receive one of the most important elements of your training. Weekly continuity clinic affords the opportunity to see patients on an ongoing basis throughout the full three years of residency training. With faculty present, you will assume the role of primary care physician.

This same facility houses resident's offices, a library of texts, journals and videos, and computer resources. Access is provided to a computerized database for procedure documentation, patient logs, electronic mail, board reviews and other pertinent medical information. The Atrium Health Navicent Children's Care Downtown Macon, a Facility of Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center Center has also instituted an Electronic Medical Record system that has been a way for excellent patient documentation and communication between healthcare staff. Residents, Faculty, and medical students can now have 24-7 access to a patient's medical chart.

First-year residents will focus on general pediatrics and will be provided the opportunity to interface with several community agencies. As a PL-2, PL-3 resident, you will focus on acute management of a variety of problems, including subspecialty evaluation and management. You will also be afforded the opportunity of some supervisory management in the outpatient setting.

Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children's Hospital

Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children's Hospital, located in Macon, Georgia is the only dedicated pediatric hospital in central and south Georgia. At Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children's Hospital, infants, children and teens have access to the clinical expertise and compassionate personalized attention they need in order to grow and thrive. We have more than 30 highly trained board-certified pediatric specialists in:

• Adolescent & Pediatric Medicine
• Cardiology
• Critical Care
• Endocrinology
• Forensic Pediatrics
• Gastroenterology
• Hematology/Oncology
• Hospitalists
• Atrium Health Navicent Infectious Disease
• Neonatology
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Pediatric Emergency Department
• Pulmonology
• Rheumatology
• Sports Medicine
• Surgery

In addition, the Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children's Hospital has experienced teams of:

• Pediatric Surgeons who perform all types of pediatric surgeries, including leading-edge robotic surgeries and minimally invasive procedures;
• Pediatric Hospitalists who specialize in caring for hospitalized infants, children and adolescents;
• Child Life Specialists trained to help reduce the stress and anxiety that children and families often feel when hospitalized;
• Palliative Care Specialists certified to work with children and their families to promote and enhance quality of life, no matter how short life is, and to provide bereavement support;
• Pediatric and Neonatal Transport Staff for Atrium Health Navicent's critical care units on wheels, which have traveled more than a million miles since 1996, with each team comprised of a pediatric respiratory therapist, emergency medical technician and pediatric critical care nurse.
• Children's Hospital Atrium Health Navicent has gained an especially strong reputation for its top-notch neonatal intensive care unit (NNICU)"”one of six Regional Referral Centers for the Perinatal System in Georgia. It is the only Level 3 NNICU in the area, where we treat more than 650 babies each year. Equally as strong is our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) which is one of four critical care units in Georgia and cares for more than 1100 patients each year.