Pediatric Endocrinology
Description: This clinical experience in Pediatric Endocrinology will include both outpatient clinic and inpatient consult experience. Common conditions include growth and puberty disorders, thyroid disease, and diabetes. Depending on the student's interest, there are also opportunities available in subspecialty clinics, including PCOS, Endocrine Disorders in Cancer Survivors, and 22q deletion syndrome.
Educational objectives:
- Develop skills in taking history and physical exam in patients with endocrine disorders.
- Establish differential diagnoses, work-up and treatment plan for common endocrine disorders appropriate for student's level of training.
Elective rotation director: Michelle Knoll, MD, MPHE
Administrative support: Lindsey Foster (lafoster@cmh.edu)
General information contact: Holly Frey (hlfrey@cmh.edu)
Elective locations:
- Children's Mercy Adele Hall
- Children's Mercy Broadway
- Children's Mercy College Boulevard
- Children's Mercy Northland Clinics
- Children's Mercy East
- Children's Mercy Kansas
Elective duration: Four weeks
Format:
- Three weeks in outpatient pediatric endocrinology clinic.
- One week on inpatient service.
- No call
- Basic endocrinology research is also available.
Typical schedule: Monday - Friday, typically 8 am - 4:30 pm (sometimes as early as 7:30 depending on the clinical schedule)
Prerequisites: Completion of core pediatric clerkship.
Rotations closed: Late december/Early January.
Criteria for passing: Demonstrate proficiency in educational objectives above. Regular attendance in clinic or ward.
Criteria for honors: Demonstrate superior abilities in educational objectives above.