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The Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine offer an integrated program of residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics. This fully -accredited program meets all the recommendations for combined training required by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics. Completion of this program leads to eligibility to take the certifying examinations of both boards.
PHILOSOPHY
From the program's inception in 1980, the goal of Baylor's Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program has been the training of well-rounded physicians, who
are confident and competent in the full spectrum of care of adults and children. Given these goals, we recognize that candidates for the combined program desire rigorous training in internal medicine and pediatrics
with a final goal of achieving confidence, excellence and board certification in both disciplines. Each candidate seeks to be qualified and recognized as an internist and as a pediatrician. To achieve this, we
believe that residents in the combined program must be fully integrated into the pediatrics and internal medicine services when rotating through each discipline. Residents must carry the same patient load, function
under the same blend of independence and supervision, and be treated in exactly the same manner as categorical internal medicine or pediatric residents.
A combined medicine-pediatrics program must provide full training and qualification in two diverse yet similar specialties. We believe that this can
only be accomplished by offering a program with a broad diversity of clinical material, a strong teaching faculty in both disciplines, a high volume of patients, and a commitment to the education of residents in the
combined program which is equally as strong as the commitment to those in the traditional categorical programs.
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