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Pediatric Residency Program

Pediatric Group Practice

The LSU Pediatric Group Practice or PGP is the residents' continuity practice. PGP provides residents with the opportunity to be the primary pediatrician for a select panel of patients. In providing longitudinal care to these children, residents learn the concepts of health supervision (normal child development, health promotion and disease prevention) as well as long term management of children with chronic and subacute illnesses. Residents recruit patients into their practices from the newborn nursery, the pediatric emergency department, the intensive-care nursery, and the inpatient service and subspecialty clinics. Doctor-patient relationships develop quickly and patients/parents identify residents as their primary care provider, giving the residents a sense of pride. It is not uncommon to see residents receive pictures of and/or gifts from their patients.

Residents spend the same one-half day per week in their continuity practice throughout their residency. Each PGP session is supervised by a minimum of three faculty, providing a small faculty to resident ratio. Teaching conferences on a wide variety of general pediatric topics, based on a recently developed curriculum, are held at the beginning of each PGP session. In addition, senior residents have the opportunity to serve as a "teaching resident" for one month during the year. Responsibilities in this role include precepting third-year students, assisting in precepting interns and participating in teaching conferences.

The LSU PGP participates in REACH OUT and READ (ROR), a national initiative to promote literacy and encourage reading. Residents are trained to deliver literacy information and distribute new books to their patients receiving well-child care. Both children and parents look forward to choosing their book. In the three years of the program, thousands of books have been distributed to our patients

In place of PGP, some residents have the opportunity to select to have their continuity experience either at the LSU faculty practice, the St. Bernard Health Unit, or the Katherine Benson Health Clinic. LSU general pediatric faculty provide supervision at both of these facilities. The continuity curriculum is also presented to residents at these alternative sites.