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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 ˝ 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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