Ascension St. Vincent Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Ascension St. Vincent's pediatric program is built around Peyton Manning Children's Hospital, a free-standing children's hospital offering tertiary/quaternary services (ECMO, transplant, pediatric burn unit, Level 1 Pediatric Trauma) paired with a smaller, community-oriented resident cohort structure. Because the hospital has no competing fellowship programs, residents work directly with subspecialty faculty and can individualize their curriculum broadly, from PICU-focused electives to primary care and administration tracks. Research is structured but modest in scope (a required case report and a QI or clinical research project presented at an internal symposium), while advocacy is a defined curricular pillar, with a required Community Health and Advocacy rotation, an underserved clinic population, and state-level policy engagement through INAAP. The program markets itself on close-knit faculty-resident relationships, flexibility toward individual career goals (general pediatrics through competitive fellowship), and hands-on community/global health engagement (an established Honduras partnership).