St Luke’s Hospital – Anderson Campus Program

Program Identity & Fit

St. Luke's Categorical Pediatric Residency is a community-based, university-affiliated program (Temple/St. Luke's School of Medicine) operating across multiple Lehigh Valley campuses, with a continuity clinic embedded at an underserved community health center in Allentown. The training model combines general pediatrics, NICU, and a newly built PICU with an unusual richness of outpatient subspecialty access via a free-standing pediatric specialty center and an out-of-state partnership with Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital for hematology/oncology, rheumatology, genetics, and child abuse exposure. Scholarly activity is resident-driven and visible but modest in scale (case reports, QI projects, and regional AAP/NASPGHAN poster presentations rather than funded bench research), consistent with a program that supports rather than centers research. The mix of general pediatrics, hospital medicine, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, and hematology/oncology interests among current residents, plus a stated continuity-of-care mission in an underserved population, suggests the program values well-rounded clinical generalists comfortable in both community and subspecialty-adjacent settings.