[phil21]

> Residency at an ER isn't necessary for someone to become a pediatrician.

You may simply be talking past each other here. All of my (now doctor) friends who went through residency pulled at least one, and usually more than that, rotations through ED. I can't imagine all 3 hospitals had wildly different residency programs than the rest of the nation, so I imagine 3-6mo of ED rotation is quite common during residency.

[stephencanon]

Yes, a 3-6 mo ED rotation is quite common for medicine docs (so is an ICU rotation for surgeons), but that's wildly different from an actual emergency medicine residency.