The Adolescent Medicine elective will take place at Boston Medical Center’s outpatient Adolescent Center, as well as at a handful of community sites. It will be an opportunity for one 4th year medical student per rotation to gain experience caring for adolescents in the outpatient setting. Students will interview and examine adolescent patients with attending physician supervision, and come up with plans for diagnostic evaluation and treatment. Students are expected to work at least 40 hours per week and have various opportunities to interact with attending physicians, mid-level providers, nurses, social workers, and other community providers. This elective will give medical student valuable exposure to common psychosocial and medical health concerns in adolescents such as sexual and reproductive health, disordered eating, reproductive endocrinology, depression and anxiety, substance use, as well as pubertal growth and development. Students will also attend teaching conferences in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center when this does not conflict with clinical experiences. This may include, but is not limited to: Noon Conference, Case of the Week, and Grand Rounds – in addition to adolescent specific education sessions as part of the BCRP Keystone block. Students will receive timely feedback from providers as well as formative feed back at the mid-clerkship evaluation to assess their progress in developing the below skills. At the end of the elective, the student will be expected to complete an evidence-based presentation as outlined below, and will have gained the following skills: • To conduct an age and developmentally appropriate interview • To council adolescents regarding common psychosocial concerns, including but not limited to reproductive health, substance use and mental health • To come up with appropriate treatment plans for common adolescent concerns.

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