Pediatrics Clerkship

Catalog description

This five-week clerkship provides the student with practical clinical experience in working with the pediatric patient. This preceptorship is intended to augment and develop directed data collection and patient management skills emphasizing a wide range of primary care pediatric problems. It will also stress those cognitive and affective skills that will enable the student to recognize normal and assess abnormal findings. The student will augment such skills as counseling the parent as to normal growth and development, anticipatory guidance, feeding, immunizations, etc., and will become familiar with the indications, limitations, and methodology of ambulatory diagnostic procedures and therapeutics. Further, he/she will gain an appreciation for practice management and the role a PA may play in a pediatric practice setting.