Catholic Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

Good Samaritan University Hospital's Pediatric Residency is a small, community-based, Catholic Health-affiliated program in West Islip, NY, built around a Level III NICU, PICU, dedicated pediatric ED, and a 26-bed pediatric floor, with continuity care delivered at the Sun River Health Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center, an FQHC serving an underserved, socioeconomically and racially diverse population including Latin American and Caribbean patients. Research is structurally embedded but not central to identity: each class completes a group project with statistician support, and residents are expected to submit a project or case presentation for publication, supplemented by selectives at Stony Brook University Hospital in cardiology, endocrinology, pulmonary, GI, ID, and hematology-oncology. The program explicitly markets itself on small-class intimacy, close faculty-resident relationships, graduated autonomy backed by 24-hour in-house hospitalist support, and an NYITCOM teaching affiliation, rather than on subspecialty fellowship pipelines or high-acuity tertiary volume. Career outcomes are described as variable, and the program's own framing emphasizes broad clinical competence, teaching engagement, and comfort working with a safety-net, FQHC-linked population over research or fellowship pedigree.