US Army

General Pediatric Billets

(not inclusive of all billets; only billets which submitted data)

Updated November 2007

 

 

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Ft. Polk

(USA)



City, State:

Ft. Polk, LA

# Pediatricians:

3

Length of Tour:

3-4 yrs

Frequency is call?

Call every 3rd.

Type of call:

By Pager.

Delivery Service:

Yes. About 30-45 deliveries/month. Some of infants are family practice though.

Inpatient Service:

Yes.

Outpatient Service:

Clinic load very manageable. 20 minute appt. slots. Few patients with chronic problems, but obviously more healthy kids. Few diabetics, lot asthmatics, several autistics.

Deployment:

Unknown.

Residents:

No.

Referral Centers:

NICU 1 hour away.  PICU 2 hours away.  Some consultants in local area, but a lot are 2-3 hours away.

Community:

Post is located in middle of nowhere. The closest mall is 1 hour drive. Housing not that great. Nice place to shop 2 hours away. Not much in terms of entertainment unless you like to fish or hunt. People in community are very nice though.

Local Attractions:

 

The Best Aspects….

Staff is great and everyone gets along well. Very close relationship with patients and families.

The Worst Aspects…

Isolation.

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

337-531-3682 DSN 863

 

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Hohenfels

(USA)



City, State:

Hohenfels, GE

# Pediatricians:

1

Length of Tour:

3 ½ yrs

Frequency of call?

Every day

Type of call:

By pager/phone

Delivery Service:

No

Inpatient Service:

No

Outpatient Service:

.Heavy and the clinic is short staffed, which enhances the problem

Deployment:

 

Residents:

No

Referral Centers:

Closest hospital is a 1 hour drive to St Hedwigs in Regensburg for an OBG/YN or hospital service of any kind.

Community:

Housing is GORGEOUS. Church activities are okay. Has an Arts & Crafts shop, Thrift Shop, PX is open from 10am-6pm and is the size of a small department store. Commissary is okay hours are T-F 10-18 & S-S 11-17. Shopette M-F 7-21 7 Sat 2300 and gas station hours M-S 7-18 (sometimes 1630). Oh yeah and there is a sports bar called "The Zone". McDonald's is 10 min drive to Parsberg.

Local Attractions:

Nurnburg, 1 hour drive in one direction. Regensburg 1 hour drive in the other, unless you figure out the back roads. Stuttgart is 3 hours away. Berlin is 4 hours away. The Czech Republic is great for shopping and is 1 hour drive to the border. There are castles in every town. Rothenburg is a walled city. The concentration camp of Dachau is about a 2 hour drive, if you know your way around and are able to read German.

The Best Aspects….

It's Europe need I say more?

The Worst Aspects…

1-4 is not family oriented. Unless you make it a point to get out and get past the language barrier you will become isolated. Not many places to take children in between ages of 2 to 5 years old. Cost of living is VERY expensive, especially with the dollar against the Euro.

Comments:

Updated 11/07

Phone Number:

09472-466-1750

 

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Ft. Hood

(USA)



City, State:

Killeen, TX

# Pediatricians:

10

Length of Tour:

3 years

Frequency of call?

usually about Q7

Type of call:

Most call is in house. When on call with a 3rd year resident from Wilford Hall, may take call from home (although good chance of being called in).

Delivery Service:

VERY busy. Ranges from 150-300 deliveries/month.

Inpatient Service:

Ward with daily census between 1-5 patients, but can take up to 10. No PICU, but can occasionally admit older children and adolescents to the CCU. No intensivist in house though.

Outpatient Service:

Very large patient base (about 40000), with wide variety of general pediatric and specialty issues. Avg clinic load is 15-20 patients/day.

Deployment:

very likely

Residents:

FP residents and 3rd year peds residents from San Antonio

Referral Centers:

NICU in house, takes >=28 weekers. Closest military referral center is San Antonio (2 hrs away). Local civilian PICU about 10 minutes away.

Community:

Killeen is a typical military town, has some shopping, restaurants. Local area with several lakes, access to hiking etc.

Local Attractions:

Austin is about 1 1/2 hours away, with excellent restaurants, shopping, museums. Dallas is also about 1 1/2 hours away.

The Best Aspects….

Great opportunity to see a wide variety of patients, large newborn population to keep up skills. Several other military pediatricians and easy access to subspecialists

The Worst Aspects…

Killeen does not have much to offer. High op tempo on base with high rate of deployment.

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

254-286-7609

 

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Ft.  Belvoir (Dewitt ACH)

(USA)



City, State:

Ft. Belvoir, VA (south of Washington, DC).

# Pediatricians:

7

Length of Tour:

1-4 yrs

Frequency is call?

1 in 5 since 2 GS pediatricians don’t take call.

Type of call:

pager, with Family Practice Residents in house taking most first calls, including attending c-sections and seeing patients in the ER. Pediatricians rarely have to come in.

Delivery Service:

Basic level nursery with 80-90 deliveries / month, with usually 2-3 babies per month transfered after birth for local MEDCEN NICU care. Have one 2nd year FP resident on service each month.

Inpatient Service:

Average census of 1/day with mostly 24-72 hour short acute care stays. Have ICU for adults and pediatric patients for initial intensive monitoring and stablization, if necessary before transfer to local MEDCEN PICU

Outpatient Service:

All appts are q 20 minutes.  20 per day. 4-8 hours per week admin time. Newborn to age 23 years. 10k enrolled in TRICARE PRIME. 1,000 EFMP patients. Have clinics, AM, PM, and evening until 8PM Mon-Fri, and weekends and holidays 1000-1700. Average 1 evening / 1 weekend clinic per month.

Deployment:

Usually for 2 weeks to 6 month TDY's once a year, for CONUS Reserve unit care, current OCONUS Balkans & Middle East.

Residents:

Family Practice Residency Program

Referral Centers:

NICU 30 miles at Bethesda NNMC.  PICU 25 miles at WRAMC.  NICU & PICU 10 miles at Fairfax Inova Medical Center.  Pediatric Subspecialists at above plus at Childrens National DC.

Community:

Nation's Capital and Northern Virginia.  Cosmopolitan, urban, and suburban, with rural mountains and coastal beaches within 2 hours. Very expensive, 2nd or 3rd most in country, in Northern Virginia, Washington Dc, and MD,to live.  2nd worst traffic in country after LA; wide range of housing, good housing allowances.   Multicultural/ethnic diversity in local schools with children from over 80 countries living in local counties.

Local Attractions:

Washington DC within 15 miles.  Richmond VA within 90 miles.  Charlottesville VA (Monticello and UVA) within 90 miles.  Fort Belvoir is on the Potomac River, and 1-2 hour drive to Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic beaches.

The Best Aspects….

Full spectrum of general pediatric care in a busy communitiy hospital, with nearby pediatric consultants and supporting ICU's. Good group of staff to work with. Extensive cultural, recreational,and other activities in DC, and VA

The Worst Aspects…

Current old facility, inadequate space; still under organization of Primary Care-Family Practice with shared clinics; BUT NEW HOSPITAL and CLINICS TO BE BUILT AND OCCUPIED SPRING 2008.

Comments:

One of the best places to be a Pediatrician in the military, with full scope of practice, nearby and readily available subpecialty care and support, and lots of local CME opportunities.

Phone Number:

703-805-0913.  DSN 655-0913 or 0983

 

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Ft. Knox

(USA)



City, State:

Ft. Knox, KY

# Pediatricians:

3

Length of Tour:

3-4 yrs

Frequency is call?

once a week and one week end a month.

Type of call:

By Pager.

Delivery Service:

Each pediatrician rotates on the newborn service one week a month. Average 30-40 deliveries a month. No NICU or step-down- sick babies go to Louisville (45 minutes away)

Inpatient Service:

Minimal inpatient. No separate pediatric ward. Average 0-4 patients at any given time. Same person who covers newborn covers the ward.

Outpatient Service:

Total pediatric population of just over 4,000. We usually see 100-150 children a day split between 5-7 pediatric providers (2 additional civilian pediatricians, a peds NP, and a few FP docs)

Deployment:

2 of 3 pediatricians currently profis to units at Ft Campbell

Residents:

No residents, but PA students and NP students

Referral Centers:

Kosair Childrens Hospital- Louisville. 45 minutes by ambulance, 10 minutes by air.

Community:

Radcliff is a typical small military town (1 Wal-mart, lots of Pawn Shops and a few tattoo parlors). Elizabethtown is 20 minutes south and a little larger. On post housing is old and looks like most other government housing. Real estate is reasonably priced and the majority of the docs live off post. I think most people like it here.

Local Attractions:

Louisville (Kentucky Derby), Mammoth Cave, lots of antique stores, Bardstown (Bourbon Festival- many bourbon distilleries in the area), fishing and hunting.

The Best Aspects….

The clinic runs efficiently and we have good nursing staff. Reasonable hours and call is not too demanding.

The Worst Aspects…

Not many opportunities for CME. The ward staff is not very comfortable with children. Lots of civilian employees- every change has to go through the union.

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

502-624-0433

 

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Ft. Stewart

(USA)



City, State:

Hinesville, GA

# Pediatricians:

4

Length of Tour:

at least 2 years

Frequency is call?

Call is rotated between all pediatricians (civ and military). If all military peds are in garrison there are 8 docs. Call, then is about 3 -4 nights a month. Weekend call is included in this, and is for an entire weekend at a time.

Type of call:

If the doc lives in Hinesville, call is at home. If you don't live in Hinesville, it is in house.

Delivery Service:

Yes. About 100 deliveries a month. Level I +. We only routinely deliver down to 36 weeks. We have 4 special care beds, mainly for IV fluids, phototherapy, antibiotics and mild, brief O2 (ex. TTN).

Inpatient Service:

Yes. Usually only 0 top 4 patients max (often none). Simple stuff usually - asthma, dehydration, rule out sepsis, RSV.

Outpatient Service:

Average clinic is 25 to 30 pts a day. Population is mainly healthy, young; almost never see adolescents except for sports physicals. High incidence of ADHD and Asthma. There are the scattered more serious patients (sickle cell, diabetes, Trisomy 21) but most complex chronic patients are sent away to tertiary centers.

Deployment:

Count on being deployed at least once.

Residents:

Yes, 2nd and 3rd year FP residents from Ft. Gordon.

Referral Centers:

Savannah, GA. (45-60 min away). PICU, NICU and almost all Peds subspecialists are available and very willing and helpful to consult.

Community:

Hinesville is a very small town with not much to do. Wal-Mart and the movie theater are about it. Savannah has most everything you would need and is about 60 minutes away. Several small bedroom communities in the area to live in. The school districts vary in quality.

Local Attractions:

Savannah. Hilton Head, SC. Charleston, SC. Beaches.

The Best Aspects….

Very good support staff in clinic. Relatively easy workload but enough stuff to keep skills up. There are many opportunities to teach residents and PA students. Overall a good first assignment.

The Worst Aspects…

The high op temp and deployments and field exercises.

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

912-870-5555 com
454-5555 DSN

 

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Ft. Drum

(USA)



City, State:

Watertown, NY

# Pediatricians:

1

Length of Tour:

3-4 yrs

Frequency is call?

There is no hospital at Drum. All inpatient care is at local civilian hospital. Currently, peds is taking one weekend per 4-6 weeks of call.

Type of call:

Home by pager.

Delivery Service:

No newborn deliveries. Can co-manage at local nursery during weekend of call is interested

Inpatient Service:

Is at local civilian hospital. Patients followed by on-call physician which is normally an FP provider.

Outpatient Service:

Regular clinic hours are 0715-1515 (28 patients). Extended hours continues until 1830 (40 patients). God mix of well baby, routines, and acutes.

Deployment:

all physicians are PROFIS to highly deployable units

Residents:

No.

Referral Centers:

all tertiary care is at Syracuse, approximately 75 minutes south. Very few pediatric subspecialties available in Watertown.

Community:

All field grade housing is located on post and is pretty nice. Company grade housing is pretty small. Local community has little in way of rental homes. Plenty of homes are for sale, though re-sale is then difficult because of this. Plenty of outdoor activities (Adirondacks, Lake Ontario, Finger Lakes) are in the region. Shopping and entertainment is pretty limited.

Local Attractions:

Syracuse is only "city" with-in 100 miles. Kingston, Ontario is also with-in 100 miles. Lake Ontario is nearby as are the Adirondacks.

The Best Aspects….

As only miltary pediatrician, you run the show. Limited call and reasonable clinic hours. Good place to live if you like cold weather, snow, and outdoor activities.

The Worst Aspects…

Lack of local available sub-specialty care. Attached to highly deployable units.

Comments:

Overall, an excellent assignment. Probably not the best for someone straight out of residency, as the inpatient and newborn care is very limited.

Phone Number:

(315)772-0859 (DSN same)

 

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USAMEDDAC Wuerzburg

(USA)



City, State:

Wuerzburg, Germany

# Pediatricians:

3

Length of Tour:

3 yrs

Frequency is call?

There are five pediatricians that take call (3 military and 2 civilian). One civilian pediatrician takes around 5 calls per month while the rest of us take 6-8 per month.

Type of call:

Call is by pager.

Delivery Service:

There are 35-40 deliveries per month. Since USAMEDDAC WBG newborn service is Level I, sick babies are sent to a local hospital.

Inpatient Service:

On average for the month, 5 kids are admitted to the ward, 5 to the special care unit (a step down from an ICU) and 5 (from the clinic, ward, ICU and newborn) are transferred.

Outpatient Service:

Usually see anywhere from 25-30 patients per day per provider (total of six providers). Mixture of routine, well baby and consults. Biggest cause of morbidity is asthma.

Deployment:

Under normal circumstances, deployment not likely for pediatricians. However, if needed, peds will fill slots that require a general medical officer (so far Peds has been asked only two times in four years).

Residents:

No.

Referral Centers:

Local facilities - 5 and 15 minutes away.  Conus - WRAMC and NNMC via Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

Community:

Limited on-post housing, however, most people actually like living on the economy.

Local Attractions:

What?! You are in Europe! Go and see all of it!

The Best Aspects….

Travel and the Autobahn

The Worst Aspects…

Have to buy converters and transformers. Instead of 110, Europe's power supply is 220.

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

Commercial: 011-49-931-804-3771
DSN: 314-350-3771

 

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Ft. Campbell

(USA)



City, State:

Ft. Campbell, KY

# Pediatricians:

6

Length of Tour:

Four years or length of commit

Frequency is call?

Call is from every fith to sixth night.

Type of call:

Usually okay to be out of hospital, but frequently need to return within fifteen minute time frame.

Delivery Service:

Heavy, with app. 160 deliveries monthly. No neonatologist presence, Level two and three newborns transferred to Vanderbilt.

Inpatient Service:

Yes, level one, no pediatric subspecialty support.

Outpatient Service:

Load is about 28 per day. Range of care is complete, with many patients requiring subspecialty referrals, easily available at Vanderbilt.

Deployment:

Likely, as GMO.

Residents:

No.

Referral Centers:

Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville TN. App. 55 miles away.

Community:

Housing is inexpensive, base housing 3 to 6 months wait time.

Local Attractions:

Recreation includes land between the lakes, 4 hours to Smokey Mountain National Park, 1 hour to Nashville. Limited local

The Best Aspects….

Congenial fellow physicians.

The Worst Aspects…

Workload sometimes heavy.

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

270-798-0440

 

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Womack Army Medical Center

(USA)



City, State:

Fort Bragg, NC

# Pediatricians:

110 generalists, 1 adol, 1 Cardiologist (Chief), 3 PNP

Length of Tour:

3 years

Frequency is call?

Call 1 night/week and 1 weekend/month

Type of call:

on pager

Delivery Service:

Yes. On ave 250 newborns per month. Busy service. (In house NICU staff available for complicated/sick babies).  Neonatal Intensive Care Unit-Level IIIA fully staffed 24/7 with Neonatologists and Neonatal Nurse Practitioners

Inpatient Service:

Peds Ward 5-15 patients depending on season.  Can have kids in ICU if uncomplicated and > 6 months age

Outpatient Service:

Acute care patients are seen Q15 min.  Routine care and consults are Q20.  Adolescents are Q30-45 min.  Mix of empanelled patients-lots of complex illnesses and with challenging medical management issues; plenty of well child preventive maintenance appts, as well.

Deployment:

High probability

Residents:

Family Practice residents 8/12 months

Referral Centers:

Multiple subspecialty consultants from Walter Reed and Duke visit 1 day per month. Cape Fear Valley Medical Center for PICU and NICU (just a few miles away).  Univ of NC and Duke Univ Med Ctr are approx 60 miles away.

Community:

Fayetteville has some very nice and some not so nice areas to live. It's a community with a lot of military and retired military. Plenty of good shopping and local entertainment. Not too far from many other great sites to visit.

Local Attractions:

Raleigh Durham-city life/international airport.  Pinehurst-golf.  Wilmington-historical/beach.  Myrtle Beach
Winston-Salem-Amish country/historical.   Charlotte-beautiful city.  Greensboro

The Best Aspects….

Great community focus; friendly atmosphere.  Interesting/ complex patients.  Good educational programs-morning report and CME lectures/symposiums.  In house NICU coverage by NNPs and neonatologists.  Close relationship with referral teaching hospitals.  Close to beaches and mountains.  Housing is affordable.  Good schools available

The Worst Aspects…

High Ops Tempo with high chance for deployment-some like this, some don't.  One weekend per month call-perspective on whether this is too frequent varies.  Local crime rate high in certain areas

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

Peds clinic: (910) 907-7337 or DSN 337-8476

 

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Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

(USA)



City, State:

Landstuhl, Germany (Kaiserslautern)

# Pediatricians:

5 Army, 2 AF

Length of Tour:

3 years

Frequency is call?

Every 6th night on average, with one person taking a whole weekend. Holiday weekends are generally split.

Type of call:

Call is by pager.

Delivery Service:

100 deliveries/month. The neonatologist is responsible for the regular newborns. Gen peds assist as needed.

Inpatient Service:

Pediatric ward with average inpatient census of 2-3. The ward also has a peds observation service for sedations. We currently schedule one physician to manage the inpatient service for a week at a time, to include that weekend call.

Outpatient Service:

A full day  has 20 appts, with a mixture of well baby visits, acutes, f/u’s, and consults.   Satuday clinic and evening clinics on most weekdays.   Mixture of primary care and patients referred from elsewhere in Europe. There are fewer children with special needs than at the US centers because these patients are generally screened out by EFMP. We still have a few complex patients (including organ transplant recipients), however, who are managed with cooperation from German colleagues.

Deployment:

One half of a 6-month deployment per tour.

Residents:

No.

Referral Centers:

NICU in house. ICU in house but with limited pediatrics. Real PICU is about a 30 minute trip away (to a German hospital - the doctors there speak English).  Card, neuro, neonatology and endo in house, other subspecialties require German referral or referral back to the US.

Community:

Most physicians choose to live on the economy. The overseas housing allowances make up all of housing expenses for most people. The travel opportunities of Europe are unique, with Frankfurt (and its airport)a 1 hour drive and Paris a 4 hour drive away. One can make day trips to many cities in France and Germany and easy weekends to most of Western Europe. The nearby city of Kaiserslautern is small but attractive with a great soccer team, concerts, and other attractions.

Local Attractions:

All of Germany.

The Best Aspects….

The cultural enrichment of living in Europe and the travel opportunities, coupled with quite a good mix of primary care pediatrics and limited subspecialty care in house.

The Worst Aspects…

One can feel isolated if one has difficulty mixing with a foreign culture. The likelihood of deployment is also above the average.

Comments:

Great cooperation with the pediatricians of the Ramstein Air Force Base clinic located nearby. We have integrated them into the call schedule & have a cooperative Saturday clinic to serve the combined community. (This is in addition to the AF pediatricians assigned to this post.)  Landstuhl is unique. There is opportunity for a large range of pediatric medicine, operational medicine, and unparallelled cultural enrichment in one location.

Phone Number:

011(49)6371-868191.  DSN(314)486-8191

 

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Heidelberg MEDDAC

(USA)



City, State:

HEIDELBERG GERMANY

# Pediatricians:

5

Length of Tour:

3 yrs

Frequency is call?

CALL IS ONE WEEKEND AND 3-4 ADDITIONAL DAYS EACH MONTH.  You are called in about 1/2 the time.

Type of call:

Pager.

Delivery Service:

YES.  40 BABIES PER MONTH

Inpatient Service:

YES.  1-2 ADMISSIONS PER WEEK

Outpatient Service:

20 patients per day

 

EFMP keeps most of our very ill children out of Europe.

Deployment:

Uncertain

Residents:

NO

Referral Centers:

NICU and PICU are 10 minutes away in the local German hospital.  US Army NICU avalible in Landstul Germany

Community:

Its Germany:

Every day off is a foreign vacation

Local Attractions:

Heidelberg is a very old University town.  Paris is 6 hours away by car.

The Best Aspects….

Living in Germany is wonderful.

No crime; Beautiful cities and towns.

Skiing is about 4 hours away.

The Worst Aspects…

It rains a lot

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

011 49 6221 17 2177

DSN  314   371 2177

 

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Ft. Benning, GA

(USA)



City, State:

Columbus, GA

# Pediatricians:

6

Length of Tour:

3-4 years

Frequency is call?

Call is divided among 5 pediatricians (if one is not deployed). Once a week and one weekend every 4-5 weeks.

Type of call:

Call is by pager as there is an FP resident who will be the inhouse POD.

Delivery Service:

Yes, but only infant >36 weeks. LImited capabilities--r/o sepsis, hyperbilirubinemia, 7-10 days of IV antibiotics, etc

Inpatient Service:

Yes, four pediatric beds. Unable to do continuous monitoring

Outpatient Service:

Clinic from 0800-1600 with patients every 15 minutes, or 1300-1900 q15 minutes OR Saturday 0800-1600 q20 min. Wide variety of patients.

Deployment:

One pediatrician is PROFIS to C, 203

Residents:

yes, FP residents

Referral Centers:

NICU downtown Columbus
PICU downtown Columbus, but staffed by general pediatricans. For higher level of care, Eggleston Children's Hospital in Atlanta. Outpatient either Columbus or Atlanta

Community:

Columbus is the 2nd largest city in Georgia. Great housing opportunities in the community. Limited shopping, but we do have two large malls. Better shopping in Atlanta. Same with entertainment. NBDL basketball team, Single A hockey team and Arena football team here in Columbus. NFL, NBA and MLB teams in Atlanta.

Local Attractions:

Atlanta 97 miles away. Montgomery and Birmingham, AL 3 hours away. Beaches of panhandle of FL within 2 hours. Mountains of northern, GA within 2 hours.

The Best Aspects….

Intradepartmental support, friendly working environment, BRAND NEW clinic (open jan 03), teaching opportunities

The Worst Aspects…

Highly deployable units on this post. LImited inpatient abilities

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

706-544-1939

 

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121 General Hospital

(USA)



City, State:

Seoul, Korea

# Pediatricians:

3

Length of Tour:

1 or 2 years

Frequency is call?

Q3

Type of call:

From home by pager

Delivery Service:

25 deliveries per month

Inpatient Service:

Yes.  3 inpatients per month

Outpatient Service:

Providers average 20 patients per day. The patient population is generally healthy. Chronic disease issues are limited, primarily asthma and developmental (ADHD...)

Deployment:

Almost zero. Technically forces in Korea are already deployed.

Residents:

No.

Referral Centers:

The closest US consultants are at Tripler AMC, Hawaii.
The closest US NICU is Lyster Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Japan.

Korean consultants and facilities are available, although standards of care vary.

Community:

Most providers will reside off-post. Korea is a shoppers paradise, with many bargains. Quality varies. Many recreational activities ar available in or near Seoul, to include skiing, hiking, zoos, museums, cultural spots, amusement parks. MWR offer tours and activities. Additionally, the are concerts, opera, shows, movies locally, but in Korean.

Local Attractions:

Japan, DMZ, Cheju-do

The Best Aspects….

Wide range of travel opportunites throughout Asia. Independent practice.

The Worst Aspects…

Distance from the US. Limitations in resources.

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

Commercial: 011-82-2-7917-8072
DSN (315) 737-8072

 

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Ft. Wainwright, AK
(USA)



City, State:

Ft. Wainwright, Alaska (Fairbanks)

# Pediatricians:

2

Length of Tour:

3 years

Frequency is call?

7 days on, 7 days off

Type of call:

Pager at home

Delivery Service:

FP taked first call for deliveries, peds is called for concerning babies. On staff at local civilian hospital with NICU. Keep babies >34 weeks

Inpatient Service:

At Bassett there is a multi-service unit that mildly ill kids are kept at (asthma exacerbation, ROS, dehydration, etc). Pediatric ward at local civilian hospital which we are on staff at.

Outpatient Service:

off call- clinic 0800-1545, q 15 min acute and routine, q 20 min well appointment; on call- 0900-1500 q30 minute

Deployment:

1 of 2 is PROFIS’ed

Residents:

None

Referral Centers:

Only general pediatrics in Fairbanks, no subspecialty except occassional visits from subspecialtist from MAMC, closest referral service is Anchorage, 2 hour Life Flight away (PICU, NICU). MEDIVAC back to MAMC as well for non-emergent things

Community:

Fairbanks has population of 30,000. On-post housing is nice, but wait list for MAJ and above is long. Off-post housing available close to post. Local shopping is limited and expensive. Lots of outdoors recreation available (skiing, snow machines, ice skating, sledding, hunting, fishing).

Local Attractions:

Denali National Park (Mt. McKinnely) is 2 1/2 hours away, Anchorage is 7 hour drive.

The Best Aspects….

The location is beautiful. Lots of outdoors recreational activities and very nice friendly people in the city of Fairbanks with very positive relationship with military.

The Worst Aspects…

Remote location with help 2 hours away by Life Flight. Call schedule is sometimes tiring, being on for a whole week at a time. When one person is on leave or TDY, you are on your own. The only city around in Anchorage which is a 7 hour drive.

Comments:

New hospital is being built and will be ready to move in late 2005.

Phone Number:

907-353-5151

 

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Camp Humphries, Korea
(USA)



City, State:

Korea

# Pediatricians:

1

Length of Tour:

1 year

Frequency is call?

Call is 1 week every 2-3 months and equal share of all holidays

Type of call:

By cell phone.

Delivery Service:

Not at Camp Humphrey's, but I go to 121GH monthly to cover nursery for 2-3 days

Inpatient Service:

None.

Outpatient Service:

I see active duty sick call (5-15 patients). I have Pediatric appts 4+ half days per week. Adult routine, PAP and PE fill the remainder of schedule.

Deployment:

Unlikely, but many taskings in Korea

Residents:

No.

Referral Centers:

121 GH in Seoul or DANKOOK University hospital is 30 minutes

Community:

Small farming community. Easy access to many Korean tourist spots. 1-2 hrs from Seoul and airport. Great shopping in nearby Osan.

Local Attractions:

Seoul

The Best Aspects….

Great travel

The Worst Aspects…

I see lots of adults and have few resources. Both of these will improve in the next several years

Comments:

Updated Jan 2004.

Phone Number:

DSN 753-8111

 

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Brooke Army Medical Center
(USA)



City, State:

San Antonio, TX (Fort Sam Houston)

# Pediatricians:

3-4

Length of Tour:

3 yrs

Frequency is call?

Pager call 2 wks/yr as ward attending and 2 wks/yr as nursery attending with teaching responsibilities; occasional duty to wear Tricare pager as well

Type of call:

Pager

Delivery Service:

Yes - at WHMC, Lackland AFB.

Inpatient Service:

Yes - at WHMC, Lackland AFB

Outpatient Service:

Precept almost 1/2 time with students and residents; average day with 18-20/day if seeing pts all day. EFMP referral center, all sorts of complicated pediatric patients

Deployment:

High likelihood of deployments for CPT/MAJ (have already deployed 10 from our dept in the past 18 mos).

Residents:

Yes, Army and Air Force

Referral Centers:

NICU and PICU across town at WHMC, also downtown PICU if needed

Community:

Sprawling urban area, with Army and Air Force hospitals on opposite sides of town.

Local Attractions:

Lots of fun for families: amusement parks, Fiesta, the Spurs, museums, the missions, and the nearby Hill Country for weekend or day trips. Several shopping malls, great variety of dining.

The Best Aspects….

Working with residents and students (if you like to teach). Fair amount of flexibility in schedule during summer/fall months.

The Worst Aspects…

High likelihood of deployment.  Lots of admin. duties working with housestaff.

Comments:

BAMC Clinic is staffed by both military and civilian providers, though the civilians do minimal admin. duties and the few military staff do all admin. duties. Heavy teaching load, with precepting various levels of residents including transitional year. Also have evening and weekend clinics every day except Christmas and New Year's Day, divided among the WHMC and BAMC military staff providers.  (updated Jul 04)

Phone Number:

(210)916-0707/3206

 

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Madigan Army Medical Center
(USA)



City, State:

Tacoma, WA

# Pediatricians:

4

Length of Tour:

?

Frequency is call?

4 weeks/year inpatient attending- call from home
5 weekends/year in newborn nursery

Type of call:

pager

Delivery Service:

Yes

Inpatient Service:

Yes

Outpatient Service:

~60/day- combined general peds and subspecialty. 16,000 enrolled for PCM, large EFMP population

Deployment:

2 jr. staff deployed last year (2003)

Residents:

Yes

Referral Centers:

Mary Bridge Children's Hospital Tacoma - PICU and NICU
Children's Hospital Seattle - NICU and PICU

Community:

Tacoma and Seattle - more expensive the closer to Seattle you go. Expanding suburban/rural areas.

Local Attractions:

Seattle and all its resources, Tacoma, mountains, water, etc.

The Best Aspects….

Teaching program, excellent residents and primary care and subspecialty staff.

The Worst Aspects…

some have to be PROFIS, primary care providers in relatively short supply.

Comments:

great place to work!  (updated Jul 04)

Phone Number:

253-968-3066

 

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Irwin Army Community Hospital – Fort Riley
(USA)



City, State:

Junction City / Manhattan, Kansas
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# Pediatricians:

3

Length of Tour:

3 yrs +/-

Frequency is call?

~q4 (shared with FP)

Type of call:

Home call. Weekends are in block--eg, take Fri/Sat/Sun as a block, Monday is comp day. Day after call is a half-day and no scheduled patients.

Delivery Service:

Yes. Around 60 per month. Peds rarely required at deliveries. Nurses do workups (except LPs).

Inpatient Service:

Yes. Only 4-6 monitored beds in entire hospital, so many admissions need to be shipped to Kansas City. Much of the time there are no inpatients. Occasionally will get to 3-4 in house.

Outpatient Service:

20min appts, most show up.  Mostly well kids, but there are some NICU grads, and several special needs kids.

Deployment:

Same as any other MEDDAC

Residents:

Not directly working with peds

Referral Centers:

NICU--Stormont-Vail in Topeka - 1hr
PICU--Children's Mercy or KU in Kansas City--2hrs

Community:

Manhattan is the home of Kansas State University. About 20min from the hospital, easy drive. Nice houses for around 200-250K. Rent is cheap,~300/mo
Post housing is nice, especially for O4 and above. A couple of nice lakes around. Manhattan has a fairly nice mall, a Target, Wal-Mart. Scenery is not typical of Kansas--There are actually nice hills and lots of trees.

Local Attractions:

KC is 2hrs away, Topeka, the state Capital, 1hr. Wichita 1.5 hrs. World's Largest Hand-Dug Well, 3hrs

The Best Aspects….

People are friendly. Autonomy for patient care. Fairly healthy population. Facilities are pretty good.

The Worst Aspects…

Probably similar to all other MEDDAC spots--deployment risk and unstable physician population. Replacement for deployed physicians are civilian contractors of variable worth... Also, backfill or civilians can't take the fixed responsibilities (admin, etc.)

Comments:

 

Phone Number:

785-239-7613; DSN 239-7545

 

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Fort Sill

(USA)



City, State:

Lawton, OK

# Pediatricians:

3-4

Length of Tour:

3 years

Frequency of call?

Q 3-4 weeks (week-long)

Type of call:

Call from home 1 week at a time covering nursery and ward; need to live within 10-15 minutes from post.  Peds is responsible for all newborn deliveries and is back-up to FP fro ED calls.

Delivery Service:

40-70 / month

Inpatient Service:

~1 admission to ward/week

Outpatient Service:

~ 1000-1200 per panel; 18-24 patients/day

Deployment:

Likely to inevitable

Residents:

None

Referral Centers:

Oklahoma City NICU and PICU (90 minutes by ground and 20 minutes by air)

Community:

~ 100,000 in community; growing, reasonable community activities available, YMCA, reasonable restaurant selection.  Good Bar-B-Q.

Local Attractions:

Wildlife refuge, local reservoir, Oklahoma City 90 minutes away; Dallas 3 hours away

The Best Aspects….

Great place to solidify training and develop skills over a wide range of general pediatrics.  “You are a big fish in a small pond.”

The Worst Aspects…

Lawton, OK is limited in what it has to offer.  To get away requires some travel.  It requires an adjustment for people not from the MidWest.

Comments:

Updated 10/06

Phone Number:

580-458-2232

 

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Hurlburt Field
(USA)



City, State:

Fort Walton Beach, FL

# Pediatricians:

2-3

Length of Tour:

3 years

Frequency is call?

1 in 6-8 weeks

Type of call:

Pager.  Also `call’ for lunch hour doctor, deployment lines and casualty notification lines

Delivery Service:

None

Inpatient Service:

None

Outpatient Service:

25 to 30 patients per day

Deployment:

Unlikely

Residents:

No (but FP residents at Eglin for uncomplicated admissions)

Referral Centers:

Pensacola (Sacred Heart Hospital) - Peds ER, NICU, PICU. Eglin AFB for admissions and ER.

Community:

Housing becoming more expensive every year. On base housing limited, but also available at Eglin AFB (also in Fort Walton Beach). Beach, water sport, warm weather year round, good shopping, fine dining in Destin.

Local Attractions:

Pensacola, Panama City

The Best Aspects….

Excellent support staff, variety of patients, friendly city, good call schedule

The Worst Aspects…

No in patient or delivery responsiblities. Lack of proximity to major city.

Comments:

Updated 12/05

Phone Number:

850-881-5957
DSN 641-5957

 

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