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- Pediatrics Third Year
During the clinical years, an eight-week full-time clerkship is required.
Students are assigned patients on the ward, in the newborn nursery and in diagnostic
outpatient clinics for independent history taking, examination and clinical and
laboratory evaluation followed by discussion with a staff physician. In addition
to general pediatric clinics, subspecialty clinics are held in the fields of adolescent
medicine, prematurity, diabetes, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology,
allergy, cardiology, neurology, rheumatology, nephrology, birth defects and developmental
disabilities. Clinical experience is supplemented by participation in daily conferences,
lectures and seminars.
- Pediatrics Elective
All fourth-year students are encouraged to spend elective time in pediatrics.
The general pediatric elective provides extensive exposure to common pediatric
problems in the outpatient clinics and a shorter period of intensive inpatient
training with increasing responsibility in both areas. Preceptorship with a practicing
pediatrician, laboratory and clinical research or a combination of these also
may be arranged. These programs should not be confused with research fellowships,
which are available during students' clinical years. Arrangements for such fellowships
may be made through the department chair. Four-week elective periods also are
available in neonatal intensive care, pediatric intensive care, medical genetics,
infectious disease, hematology and oncology, diabetes and endocrinology, developmental
pediatrics, cardiology, pulmonology and gastroenterology.
- Postgraduate Instruction
Advanced postgraduate instruction in pediatrics and residencies are available
to qualified physicians by arrangement.
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