 I'm Dr. Judy Aschner and as Chair of Pediatrics and Physician and Chief, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center. We are a full-service children's hospital with more than 25 medical and surgical pediatrics of specialties represented among our outstanding faculty. The Pediatric Residency Program at Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital is a program that's going to train you well in general pediatrics, as well as prepare you for specialty. The different case mix that we're able to see is more variable than a lot of other places that I have interviewed at that I've seen, and you're able to get a broad kind of overview of pediatrics and see the things that you'll need to be a successful pediatrician. One of the things about this program, which is maybe a little bit unique, is that we don't do any 24-hour call, so all of our scheduling is based on 14 hours day team or night team. So you see your patients after hand-off, and then attending rounds happen every day from 10.30 to noon, and then the afternoon is spent really admitting new patients following up on consults, lab results, and then if you're not on call, you're turning over probably around five o'clock. So I actually rotated through this hospital as a student and was able to participate firsthand. One of the things that stuck out in my mind was the interactions that I was having with not only the staff, but the other residents that were already at the program. They seemed happy, they seemed like they were being taken care of, and they seemed most importantly that they were learning. We have a really experienced and enthusiastic faculty. They're here because they love to teach, and they love to do research, so they're very academic. We focus on education. There's always an opportunity to learn through various media, whether it be our protected time where we have didactics for about four hours a week, whether it be during morning report, and the faculty are very focused on giving us teaching rounds during our inpatient months. I think that we get a good mix here of spending time on the inpatient units such as the general floor is to pick you and the NICU, but then also rotating through the pediatric subspecialties. We have just about every subspecialty in house, so when you're working, when you're on your cardiology elective or you're on your pulmonology elective, you're not only seeing patients at the outpatient clinic, but also getting the experience of coming and doing consults for the floor. There are lots of things that I love about living in New Jersey. I can be on the mountains in a half hour, in an hour. I can be at the beach in an hour. I can be in New York City in 20 minutes, half hour, so I feel like there's something in this area for everybody, and I really like that. I am looking to create really caring, compassionate, competent pediatricians who are equally well prepared to enter general practice or move on to subspecialty training in a fellowship. We really just help guide people to find their passion and then help them get to wherever it is they decide their next move should be. We pride ourselves on being a very supportive program where all the administrators, all of the faculty, really care about you as a person. Everyone here is really knowledgeable, and I think that you start to find those faculty that are really passionate about research and you think, oh, this is the faculty that I want to work on a case report with. At the same time, then you find the faculty that this is the one that I want to sit down and have them give me a lecture on vasopressors because they're great at teaching or events. You know, they have the knowledge and they're passionate about teaching, so I certainly think we have everything that you could need from our faculty here. Our faculty are excellent clinician educators with a commitment and an excellent track record for training medical students, pediatric residents, and fellows.