DUTIES OF STUDENTS ON ADOLESCENT MEDICINE ELECTIVE
1. Perform comprehensive assessment of one to three new patients each week. The patients will be new to the CCHMC Teen Health Center and assigned by a precepting physician, who will discuss the evaluation and management. The student may also be assigned to see patients at the Youth Detention Center (2020), Cincinnati Job Corp location, and/or an asthma quality improvement focused clinic as spots are available. Spots are not available every month depending on the number of residents participating in their elective at CCHMC. You will need transportation to get to off-site locations.
2. See various patients for routine follow-up appointments or acute visits (call-in, walk-in). The patients will be assigned by the preceptor for the day who will directly supervise you and discuss the problems and management with you. You will write notes on your assigned patients in EPIC, our electronic medical record when at CCHMC.
3. Round on inpatient adolescent medicine patients for one week. Duties include pre-rounding, writing admission notes, progress notes, examining patients, coming up with assessments and plans. All inpatient work will be under the direct supervision of an adolescent medicine senior resident, fellow, or attending. Typically students follow 1-2 patients per day, but can follow more if skills and time permit. Inpatients are typically admitted with eating disorders, but any type of patient could be admitted to this service.
4. Attend teaching conferences held for the trainees of the Teen Health Center. These include a series of talks on common problems held at 7:30AM in the Teen Health Center. Students are also welcome to attend CCHMC residency conferences as they are invited and able to get to those conferences.
5. When indicated for patient care, give injections, perform examinations of urine and wet mounts, etc.