Our Members
- Total regular rank faculty:
- MD faculty: 329
- PhD faculty: 17
- MD, PhD faculty: 3
- Staff: 338
- Residents (PGY 1-3 and combined): 77
- Subspecialty Fellows (PGY 4 and up): 75
Our Rankings
- Duke Pediatrics is a Top 10 Best Pediatrics Program for Medical Schools (2023 U.S. News & World Report’s Best Pediatrics Programs)
- Duke Children’s Hospital 2023-24 U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospitals rankings:
- One of the top 50 hospitals in the nation
- No. 1 in North Carolina
- No. 1 (tied) in the Southeast
- All 10 pediatric specialties nationally ranked
- Specialties in the top 25 include Cardiology & Heart Surgery (2), Neonatal Care (14), Urology (19), Gastroenterology & GI Surgery (20), Orthopedics (23), and Pulmonology (23).
- The Duke Department of Pediatrics ranks No. 1 nationally on the 2023 list of NIH funding for pediatric clinical science departments.
Education Snapshot
Residents and fellows from around the nation and the world come to Duke Pediatrics, where they fuel their passion to become skilled leaders, researchers, and clinicians.
There are more than 150 residents and fellows in our programs. About a third of those are recruited each year, as noted in the graph below.
Patient Care Snapshot
Duke Children’s Hospital
- 6,600 annual admissions (approximately)
- 202 inpatient beds, including:
- 74-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- 20-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- 20-bed Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
- Intermediate pediatric inpatient beds
The Duke Children's Health Center is located adjacent to the hospital and serves as the site for ambulatory pediatric subspecialty care, with approximately 70,000 annual visits.
Alumni Snapshot
Our alumni have an extensive range of experience that spans across the country. A significant number of our alumni reside in North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, and Florida. Their unwavering dedication to serving children has helped to bolster their local communities, and their contributions have been invaluable to Duke Pediatrics.
