The purpose of the Pediatric Cardiology selective is to provide medical students with general exposure to the field of pediatric cardiology. A shadowing experience will be provided where students will have the opportunity to observe staff cardiologists during their daily routine. The experience will primarily be in the outpatient/ambulatory setting, but may also include some exposure to echocardiography, cardiac ICU, cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, and cardiac MRI.
Students will shadow pediatric cardiologists, primarily in the outpatient/ambulatory setting, but may also include exposure to echocardiography, cardiac ICU, cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, and cardiac MRI.
Outpatient General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (GPAM) provides well child and acute care for non-local pediatric patients, coordinated care for specialty clinics, and evaluations in the pediatric diagnostic and referral clinic. Students on this rotation will have the opportunity to see patients in these various clinics as well as gain exposure to team-based care.
Students who rotate through the Pediatric Critical Care (PICU) should obtain an appreciation of basic pathophysiologic principles related to critical illness and an understanding of specific disease processes which require critical management.
Students will shadow consultants and residents in the only free-standing pediatric Emergency Department in Arizona. Students will also be exposed to the basics of medical and trauma resuscitation in pediatrics.
The goal of this rotation is to expose the medical student to a wide range of illnesses and injuries that present to a busy urban emergency department.
The rotation is primarily hospital-based although the opportunity exists to see pediatric infectious diseases patients in the outpatient clinic. Students work directly with the consultant and fellow and/or resident assigned to the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Service.
Students have the opportunity to shadow staff and residents in the outpatient pediatric infectious diseases clinic. Students will be exposed to a variety of infectious diseases, ranging from common infections among healthy children to unusual infections among medically complex children.
Students participate in the workup of new and returning nephrology patients. They also attend appropriate nephrology and pediatric conferences where, on occasion, they present and discuss case histories.
A three- or four-week rotation with the opportunity to work on both the outpatient and inpatient services under the direction of consultants and residents in pediatric neurology at Nemours Children’s Clinic and Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital.
