Where do doctors do residency?
Also, what if someone does not necessarily want to be in motion into pediatrics (they want to become some other doctor like radiologist or common practitioner or something), can they do their residency at a children's hospital?
Answer:
Many pediatric residencies are affiliated with some sort of Children's Hospital. It's not mandatory, but a children's hospital will tend to bring surrounded by more diversity of patients. Definitely, though, if the pediatric residency is based out of a regular hospital it should own a pretty good pediatric end. On the other hand, most other residencies are not base in children's hospitals, because they do not focus exclusively on kids. You may rotate through a children's hospital for your rotations, but you wouldn't be exclusive in that, for you wouldn't get the exposure to adults that you inevitability.
As for spending all three years surrounded by a hospital, it depends. In some residencies you might, but many will enjoy you rotating through different places.
There are residency programs in most university-affiliated hospitals, and surrounded by a lot of community hospitals as very well. Each program has it's own setup for the varied facilities surrounded by which their residents work.
It wouldn't make sense for a radiologist or a inherited medicine doctor to do a residency within a children's hospital, but MANY residency programs send their residents to children's hospitals to get hold of pediatric experience, if that applies to their specialty.