- 2024-2025 Application Season Update
Our program will only be offering virtual interviews for this season. We agree virtual interviews are more equitable for applicants and programs. Virtual interviews also help to decrease medical students’ time away from clinical training and significantly decrease the environmental impact of travel. Interviews will be held live via Zoom.
Our program is participating in the ERAS supplemental application for the 2024–2025 season with adherence to the AAMC code of conduct. Please see our How to Apply section for more details.
We are working on programming to ensure we can share our residency family with you and have you share yourselves with us! Please email us with any questions, concerns, or ideas.
Consider reading Virtual Interview: Applicant Preparation Guide and Prep for Success in your Virtual Interview from the AAMC.
Last updated 8/29/2024
Developing, educating and inspiring exceptional pediatricians who advance child health through meaningful careers.
To improve the wellbeing of children, families and communities, we train leaders in an inclusive environment through diverse experiences encompassing the breadth of pediatrics. Our training environment promotes high quality care, appropriate independence and personal and professional resilience to fulfill career goals. We cultivate a compassionate community of learners who embody a stance of inquiry, collaboration, curiosity, cultural humility, life-long learning and excellence.
Program Aims
- Equip pediatric residents to improve the well-being of children and adolescents, families and communities in our region.
- Develop pediatricians who are competent in the breadth of pediatrics, from rural primary care to innovative specialty medicine.
- Develop pediatric leaders who embody compassion, inquiry, collaboration, equity, advocacy, excellence, integrity and life-long learning.
- Prepare residents to fulfill career goals with training focused on quality care, cutting-edge research, progressive autonomy, resilience and cultural humility.
- Recruit and retain a diverse house staff who are trained with tools to reduce the impacts of health disparity and structural racism by improving education surrounding equity, diversity and inclusion.
Why choose the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital?
By tailoring training to each individual resident's needs and goals, we maximize their career opportunities and options, whether in general practice, subspecialties, research, advocacy or global health.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive work and learning environment that values underrepresented backgrounds in medicine and celebrates individuals with unique experiences. Learn more about our resident-led JEDI initiatives here.
In addition to Seattle Children's, residents rotate through a rich network of outstanding teaching hospitals and community clinics that serve a diverse group of children and families in Seattle and the greater five state area, known as the WWAMI region.
The depth and diversity of lived experiences of our residents makes our community strong and fosters creativity, inclusivity, and ingenuity both in and out of the hospital.