Course Catalog

 
52-408M PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Department PEDIATRICS Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Elective AI, Medicine AI-Inpatient Facility Children's of Alabama
Course Director KIMBERLY FOWLER WHELAN, MD Enrollment Limit 1
Contact HANNAH ADAMS MARTIN Enrollment Minimum 1
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		 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 18-21, 22-25, 28-31, 32-35, 36-39, 40-43, 45-48, 49-52
Prerequisites Successful completion of the core internal medicine, peds and surgery clerkships and any clerkship which covers the content material of the requested elective or acting internship course (e.g. Pediatric Clerkship must be successfully completed prior to taking a Pediatric Elective or AI). 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites: Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Family Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Psychiatry
Visiting Students
Accepts students from US LCME accredited schools.
Accepts students from osteopathic schools.
Course Description This course is designed to introduce the student to pediatric hematology/Oncology. The student will be an active member of a multidisciplinary health care team. The student will admit and evaluate new patients with disorders of blood and cancer and will evaluate patients with complications of their disease or treatment. the student will be involved in inpatient as well as outpatient consultative visits. The student will be responsible to the senior resoident and Fellow in Pediaric hematology/Oncology. The student will attend tumor conference weekly and may be asked to present at that conference. No inpatient call is required during this month. If this course is selected as an AI the student will be expected to work 2 weekends throughout the month. If the student is taking this as an elective it is M-F only. Learning to deliver bad news and deal with patients with chronic illnesses is a focus of this rotation.
Where To Report 7:30am orientation. 4th floor Children's Harbor Building. Bradley Lecture Center. Email resident to find out where to report following Morning Report.
Requirements Attend all pediatric Hematology/Oncology rounds.
Work up and evaluate patients admitted to this service.
Attend Pediatric Tumor Board.
Attend several pediatric hematology/oncology ambulatory clinics.
Evaluation Pass/Fail. Evaluation is based on obeservation of student acheivement of the six core ACGME competencies.
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