Course Catalog

 
02-520 PEDIATRICS CLERKSHIP
Department PEDIATRICS Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Clerkship Facility Children's Hospital
Course Director HUSSEIN ABDULLATIF, MD Enrollment Limit 20
Contact HANNAH ADAMS MARTIN Enrollment Minimum 10
Email hmmartin@uabmc.edu Address Children's Hospital
McWane Building, Residency Office
Birmingham, AL 35233
Phone (205) 638-9713 Fax
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 1-8, 9-16, 18-25, 28-35, 36-43, 45-52
Prerequisites SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF MEDICAL SCHOOL AND USMLE STEP I. 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites:
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description This is an 8 week clinical clerkship designed to introduce the student to the core principles of Pediatric Medicine. The student will spend four weeks on a multidisciplinary pediatric inpatient team evaluating and caring for children with acute and chronic illnesses. Students will spend one week caring for newborns in the newborn nursery, one week on a service which deals with chronic illnesses of pediatrics, one-half week on the adolescent medicine service dealing with transition form childhood to adulthood, and one and one-half weeks in a general pediatric practice learning concepts of health care maintenance in children. The student will become familiar with the common illnesses of pediatrics, the common causes of death in childhood, normal growth and development of children, the concepts of family centered care and the variation in the immunology, biochemistry, pathology and physiology that occur as the child ages.
Where To Report Follow 1st day instructions sent by course contact.
Requirements Attend all clinics, rounds, and didactic seminars. Be available for patient evaluations at all times during the day. Work up and care for at least two children each presenting with fever, respiratory illness, GI complaints, and other acute pediatric problems, five newborns, three adolescent patients, and two children with chronic illnesses, two well child checks, and complete ten computer based pediatric cases along with 75% of problems on the ED sheet. In-house call will be every fourth night.
Evaluation Clinical Component 70%. NBME Shelf Exam - 30%
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