Clinical Clerkship: Pediatrics

Catalog description

This five-week clerkship allows students to gain clinical experience in evaluating children (both sick and well) through history taking, physical examination and laboratory data. The following hospital-based settings are utilized: inpatient services, newborn nursery, and ambulatory clinic/ emergency department. Special emphasis is placed on growth and development, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte balance, common infections, and preventive pediatrics (immunizations; accidents; poisoning).