Resident clinics

Primary Care Residency Education Director
Jane Nathanson, MD

Resident Continuity Clinic Director
Melissa Hewson, MD

Clinical Sites

The three pediatric and adolescent care clinical sites where residents work serve a racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically-diverse population from across Philadelphia.

• Three community-based CHOP Care Network Primary Care Centers
  • CHOP Primary Care, Cobbs Creek, West Philadelphia
    (30 blocks from Main Campus at 63rd and Locust Streets). Some of the attending physicians and pediatric nurse practitioners specialize in adolescent patient care. This site is part of a family planning grant.
  • CHOP Karabots Pediatric Care Center, West Philadelphia
    (18 blocks from Main Campus at 48th & Market Streets). This is a state-of-the-art facility with on-site radiology. Some practitioners have a special interest in the medically complex patients; some of the attending physicians have a special interest in medical education, and some focus on community research. Adolescent Primary Care, Family Planning, Early Head Start and Reach Out and Read are housed here as well.
  • CHOP Primary Care, South Philadelphia
    (5 miles from Main Campus at Broad Street and Passyunk Avenue). This is our most diverse ethnic and socioeconomic patient population; some attending physicians have an interest in medical informatics, refugee health, medical education.
• Centers are based on a group-practice model and are primarily staffed by attendings in primary care who dedicate 10 to 30 percent of their clinical time to precepting
• Each center has nursing staff who work as a team with the doctors, administer immunizations and medications, triage and carry out nursing procedures and provide patient teaching with an emphasis on breast feeding and asthma education.
• Each center also has a social worker, on-site phlebotomist, and  integrated mental health services
• Primary Care practices have 24-hour telephone nursing triage. 

Resident Experiences

• Education in Primary Care at CHOP includes a number of unique experiences, includingContinuity Clinic: Part of the “Y” schedule, residents spend 6 2-week periods in ambulatory practice which includes continuity clinic in primary care several times each week. Residents see a combination of their own patients and group practice patients (sick and well). The inclusion of continuity clinic in the Y block allows residents to concentrate on their outpatient encounters, and residents develop rich, longitudinal relationships with a group of preceptors at their primary care site.
• Centralized Primary Care curriculum: Primary care teaching occurs in a variety of different venues, both during the Y blocks and during the morning report and noon conference series. A core component of the PL1 academic half day curriculum is Pediatric Primary Care Education (“Pediapredd”), a 6-part workshop series that addresses core topics in ambulatory pediatrics across all ages and stages of development.
• During the Y block, residents participate in many other ambulatory experiences such as sports medicine, ENT, developmental sessions, and neonatal follow-up
• Senior residents interested in pursuing a career in primary care complete an IEU at a suburban CHOP care network site