Graduate training in pediatrics, to a large degree, comes under the influence of the Board of Pediatrics. Although originally designed only to examine candidates qualified for certification, it now plays an important role in approval of hospitals for residency training and hence in maintaining standards of specialty training. The Board should be more adequately supported and strengthened to meet its expanding responsibilities. More attention should be given to bringing the pediatric resident closer to the actualities of pediatric practice. All hospitals approved for pediatric residency should provide experience, either on their own services or in an affiliated hospital, in the care of normal newborn infants. The pediatrician should be prepared during his training to meet the problems presented to him by a mother with her newborn infant. He should have had experience in well-baby clinics and be thoroughly familiar with the characteristics of normal growth and development, and he should know the nature and scope of services rendered by community health agencies, such as well-child conferences, school health services and the help available from public health nurses. Residencies for general practice should be encouraged and particular attention given to their pediatric component. Emphasis should be placed upon including at least four months, and preferably six, on an approved pediatric service. In order to provide a sufficient number of places for physicians training for general practice, children's hospitals and pediatric units of general hospitals should offer rotating internships or residency appointments for short periods of time. State pediatric groups, whether section of the medical society, pediatric society, or state chapter of the Academy, would do well to look into the requirements for medical licensure with particular reference to (1) the amount of hospital training in pediatrics which is required, and (2) the pediatric content of the examination. In those states where too little attention appears to be given to pediatrics, steps should be taken to increase the time on a pediatric service during internship and to give a separate examination in pediatrics or at least to include pediatric questions on a general examination. Hospital staff conferences should place greater emphasis on the diseases and health problems of children. If there are no pediatricians on the hospital staff, visiting lecturers and consultants should be invited for this purpose. And finally, more attention should be given to the pediatric content of state and local medical society programs, especially the general postgraduate assemblies that are held from time to time throughout the country.