Students will gain exposure to a wide range of experiences in the care of minor and major traumatic injuries, multiple pediatric medical illnesses, care of the poisoned pediatric patient, and pediatric patients with psychiatric illness while working with faculty at Naples Community Hospital.
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.
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.
Working primarily in the outpatient setting, see patients under the supervision of pediatric hematology-oncology physicians to provide consultation for blood disorders, gaining an understanding of how to work-up specific concerns such as anemia, bleeding/thrombosis, sickle cell, etc.
The pediatric rotation provides additional experience for students interested in the medical care of infants, children and adolescents. Students become part of the patient care team while serving as a subintern on the rotation.
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.
Students will be introduced to the clinical presentations and current research about the major “Neurodevelopmental Disabilities” in infancy and childhood.
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.