Pediatric Requirements
We were pleased to receive your interest in the Pediatric Residency Program at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Amarillo. Our Education office requires that we ONLY receive applications through our ERAS program. Our program requires the following:1. We do accept foreign medical graduates; however, you must be a citizen of the United States, a permanent resident (green card) and we only sponsor J-1 Visas.
2. The committee desires scores of 82 and above on the USMLE Steps and they must be passed within the first 3 attempts.
3. Transcripts from approved medical schools, an attached Dean’s letter, and three letters of recommendation are required.
4. Personal Statement.
5. ECFMG Certification.
6. Satisfactory progress in the six ACGME competencies:
Patient Care
Medical Knowledge
Interpersonal Skills and Communication
Professionalism
Systems-Based Practice
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
7. Completion of Neonatal Resuscitation program and Pediatric Advanced Life Support training desirable, but not a requirement. If accepted into our program we will send you to these courses.
8. Meet licensing requirements as deemed necessary by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners.
9. Must be eligible for licensure in the state of Texas following completion of residency.
10. No U.S. clinical experience is required.
11. We accept applications from September 1 through December 15. Our interviews are October 1 through December 15.
12. The designated length of time from when you graduated from an accredited Medical School is ten years or under or the committee will review your CV to make sure that you have stayed active in the medical field since graduation.
13. We currently offer no observerships.
Please visit our website at http://www.ttuhsc.edu/amarillo/som/ped/ for more information. If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me through my e-mail address michelle.powers@ttuhsc.edu or by phone at (806) 354-5570.
Respectfully,
Michelle Powers
Phone (806) 354-5570
Fax (806) 354-5536
If you live in Texas or the surrounding states, I would like to introduce you to our Pediatric Residency Program. I would also urge you to consider doing your Pediatric Residency with us in Amarillo. Amarillo is a wonderful place to live and to also raise a family (if that is something you are currently involved with or considering for the near future). Our education committee has worked very hard to create a high quality teaching program. The proof of those efforts are that our graduates are above the national average for passage on the American Board of Pediatrics Certifying Examination (see graph below) and our graduates have been accepted into highly competitive fellowship programs in a wide variety of pediatric subspecialties. We have implemented the evaluation of our residents using the six competencies as proposed by the ACGME even before this was a requirement. I have listed on our website that one of my single greatest accomplishments is “…demonstrating to others what it means to be a ‘life-long learner’”. At Texas Tech University in Amarillo, we strive to impress on our residents the importance of life-long learning as a part of a high quality post graduate education. We believe that this should be your goal as well. If you are a highly motivated student who is genuinely interested in a high quality education we want you to seriously consider joining us in Amarillo.
Our faculty to resident ratio is nearly 2 to 1. Combine this with active “hands on” mentoring; I do not believe that you can find a better program. As a resident in our program you can expect to be taught by highly motivated faculty, not fellows. This high degree of personal attention helps prepare our residents for both general pediatric practice as well as subsequent subspecialty training. As I said before, our residents are highly competitive when it comes to being accepted into fellowship training having continued their training at prestigious institutions in Endocrinology, Hematology/Oncology, Intensive Care Neonatology, Pulmonary, and research training at the NIH just to name a few.