Professional Education
We are committed to creating a culture of excellence in medical education. Children's Mercy provides world-class education opportunities for practicing and aspiring healthcare professionals.

Professional Education
We are committed to creating a culture of excellence in medical education. Children's Mercy provides world-class education opportunities for practicing and aspiring healthcare professionals.

World-class Education
Children's Mercy provides world-class education opportunities for practicing and aspiring healthcare professionals. Education activities are designed to promote professional growth and development and to enhance quality patient care and positive patient outcomes.
Areas of emphasis

Learn about available clerkships, internships, sub-internships, externships, and certificate programs available for students pursing a medical, nursing, or healthcare-related degree.

A residency training experience at Children’s Mercy combines outstanding clinical experiences covering the entire array of pediatric medicine through an extremely diverse patient population.

Fellowships are training programs for post-graduate students or practicing healthcare professionals looking to move into a subspecialty field.

Observerships at Children's Mercy give students, medical students, and practicing physicians to an opportunity to observe physicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals for a short period of time.

Children's Mercy provides comprehensive resources to support practicing healthcare professionals to continue in their academic and educational pursuits.

See upcoming events, conferences, and lectures.

Children's Mercy Library Services assists employees, residents, fellows and faculty members with electronic resource instruction, literature searches, and access to electronic and print resources, including resources from UMKC Health Sciences Libraries.

The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) at Children’s Mercy is committed to supporting the professional and personal growth of all faculty members in their academic medicine careers.
About Education

Browse reports for Graduate Medical Education, including the Policy and Procedure Manual and Annual Report.

Children's Mercy Kansas City is pleased to offer travel reimbursement for GME fellowship applicants invited to interview in our programs.

We promote and recognize excellence in education each year with a series of awards presented at the Annual Graduate Medical Education Awards Ceremony.

Graduate Medical Education programs at Children's Mercy provide a variety of perks, benefits and on-site services to help make the residents/fellows' experience positive and rewarding.