Morehouse School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

Morehouse School of Medicine's Pediatrics Residency is a small, community-oriented program explicitly built around health equity and care for underserved children in Atlanta, training residents at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (Hughes Spalding, Scottish Rite, Arthur M. Blank Hospital), Grady Hospital, and Emory Decatur Hospital to combine tertiary pediatric volume with safety-net and community exposure. The curriculum pairs standard subspecialty rotations (cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, hematology-oncology, neonatology) with dedicated attention to social determinants of health, reflecting the institution's mission of "leading the creation and advancement of health equity to achieve health justice." Its small size (1:2 resident-to-faculty ratio) is emphasized as enabling close mentorship and a "family atmosphere," and the program is embedded in a broader MSM research infrastructure focused on health disparities (Cancer Health Equity Institute, RCMI, Prevention Research Center) that residents can engage with, though research is not the program's central identity. The program values residents drawn to community advocacy, underserved pediatric populations, and a mission-driven, equity-focused practice of medicine rather than a purely academic or subspecialty-fellowship track.