Pediatric Clerkship (6 weeks)

MED MS 313

MED MS 313: Pediatric Clerkship (six weeks) During the six-week Pediatric Clerkship, students will gain experience in clinical pediatrics by rotating at one of the clerkship's unique sites. At the clerkship sites, students may have the opportunity to participate in pediatric care on a number of clinical services, including: the inpatient ward, outpatient primary care and subspecialty clinics, emergency room, newborn nursery, and perhaps a NICU and/or PICU. Up to two students per block can elect to complete this rotation at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara, a busy pediatric referral hospital for the Kaiser system in California, where students will see a broad variety of pediatric illness - from common to rare presentations - as well has have engaging ambulatry and nursery experiences. One student per block can elect into the new rural pediatric medicine track at MACONY Pediatrics in the Berkshires. This student will see a broad variety of routine health maintenace as well as acute pediatric medical care in an ambulatory setting for six weeks, gaining appreciation and knowledge about optimizing outpatient medical care where pediatric inpatient medical services are less readily available.