Adolescent Medicine
Description: The Adolescent Medicine Rotation is a 4-week experience in mostly outpatient clinics devoted to adolescent subspecialty care. This is not a primary care rotation.
Educational objectives: Students will learn the medical and psychosocial problems unique to adolescents. Interviewing skills will be developed and basic physical examination skills re-enforced.
Elective rotation director: Andrea Nos, MD (alnos@cmh.edu)
Administrative support: RoseMary Cornell (rcornell@cmh.edu)
General information contact: Holly Frey, (hlfrey@cmh.edu)
Site location:
- Children's Mercy Broadway3101 Broadway Blvd. Kansas City, MO 64111
- Children's Mercy Kansas
- Children's Mercy College Boulevard
- Children's Mercy North
- Children's Mercy East, Synergy Clinic
- Children's Mercy Adele Hall
Elective duration: Four weeks
Format: Clinic, Online educational modules that include articles, slides, videos
Prerequisites: Completion of Core Pediatric Clerkship, strong interest in Adolescent Medicine and in their final year of medical school.
Typical schedule:
- Clinic is Monday-Friday, 8 am - 5 pm
- Conferences are scheduled in the morning or at Noon throughout the rotation. A schedule will be given at orientation.
- Thursday morning - CMH Grand Rounds.
- A school-based clinic experience may also be possible.
- No call
Rotation closed: March, July, late December/early January
Criteria for passing: Satisfactory performance on the clinical evaluation.
Criteria for honors: Outstanding performance on the clinical evaluation.