This rotation typically consists of rounding with the inpatient team in the morning, followed by a variety of experiences in the afternoon catered to the students’ interests and the areas of most activity.
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.
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.
During this rotation, students are expected to perform as sub-interns and hence become very familiar with the management details of the children in the PICU. In addition to the core curriculum lectures, readings are assigned by the consultants.
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.
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.