Vital Signs
Facts & Figures
Kids' stuff
1933
Year the American Board of Pediatrics was established
1937
Year Dartmouth hired its first pediatrician
2
Number of pediatricians on the Dartmouth faculty in 1957
281
Number of pediatricians at all Dartmouth-Hitchcock sites today
80,000
Number of pediatricians in the U.S. today
1992
Year the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD) was designated
as a children's hospital by NACHRI (the National Association of
Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions)
205
Number of children's hospitals in the U.S. today
6,000
Number of pediatric cases annually in the DHMC Emergency Department
(the only Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center in Northern New England)
10%
Percentage of DMS '11s who entered a residency in pediatrics
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