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What Our Residents Do Next
The BCRP specializes in training academic pediatricians. Eighty six percent of the program's graduates during the past five years have continued on a pathway leading to an academic career. This is an exceptionally high percentage. The residents enter a wide variety of fields. Although some go to programs across the country, about 80% continue their training in Boston.
What Residents (N=430) Did
in Year Following Residency (2002-11)
# %
Academic Career 382 89
    Second residency or fellowship*
    307
    81
    Chief residency
    47
    12
    Faculty
    28
    7
     
Practice Career
(Private Practice, Neighborhood Health Centers & HMOs)
48 11
*Residencies and Fellowships Chosen
(2002-11)
#
Hematology/Oncology 47
Academic Pediatrics 41
Cardiology 37
Emergency Medicine 31
Neonatology 24
Critical Care Medicine 24
Endocrinology 19
Gastroenterology 18
Infectious Diseases 17
Neurology 11
Pulmonary 6
Allergy/Immunology 6
Global Health 6
Rheumatology 5
Adolescent Medicine 4
Nephrology 2
Genetics 3
Other 27
Careers of Our Residents
The "graduates" of the residency program during the past 40 years best illustrate the success of our approach to training and our ability to achieve our goal of training leaders in American pediatrics. To evaluate our success, one must consider the cohort who completed their residencies between 1968 and 1992. More recent residents are still finishing their training or are early in their academic careers and have not reached their full potential.
Leadership Positions
The 1968-1992 cohort contains 559 individuals of whom we have follow-up information on 87 percent (as of 2007). Seventy-one percent of these are currently in academic medicine or are recently retired from academic positions and 44 percent are leaders in academic medicine. An additional 15 percent hold senior academic ranks. Thus, 83 percent of the group in academic medicine have reached positions of prominence. An additional 7% have had major success within the biotech or business community, as authors, or in other medical pursuits. Read more for examples.
1968-1992 Residents: Current Jobs

  • Academic - 71%
    • Senior Administrator or Dean: 4%
    • Department Chair: 6%
    • Division Chief: 18%
    • Head of Major Clinical Program: 9%
    • Sr Researcher/Research Admin: 5%
    • Educator: 2%
    • Senior Academician: 15%
    • Junior Academician: 12%
  • Nonacademic - 29%
    • Hospital-based private practice: 3%
    • Private practice: 18%
    • Authors: 0.5%
    • Business, Biotech or Biopharm: 4%
    • Other: 3.5%
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