Directors: Redd, Sharon Lopes; Rockoff, Mark Alan

Prerequisites: Year III standing.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered July.

Location: By arrangement, Sheila Frederick, (617) 355-7759

Time: By arrangement, Sheila Frederick, (617) 355-7759

Description: This course provides students with an introduction to the anesthesia care of children. The student will participate in departmental conferences and the pre-, intra-, and post-operative evaluation and management of patients undergoing...

Directors: Staley, Kevin Joseph

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics or prior course in neurology.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Location: MGH, Vincent-Burnham 731

Time: 9:00 am

Description: In the course students will become acquainted with the basic neurological problems of childhood and gain the ability to examine children neurologically and developmentally. Students will work as part of the ward team, see patients...

Directors: Urion, David Kimball

Prerequisites: Year III standing. Pediatrics or Neurology before taking clerkship preferred

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: This advanced clerkship is structured to expose the clerk to a wide variety of experiences in child neurology, and can be tailored to meet interests or needs of individual clerks. Clerks will spend week-long rotations on four...

Directors: Hunter, David G.

Prerequisites: Year III standing

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: Course OP503.M.7. Introduction to Pediatric Ophthalmology. This is an introductory course, requiring no prior experience in ophthalmology. The student, supervised by David G. Hunter, MD, PhD (Ophthalmologist in Chief at Children’s...

Directors: Hresko, M. Timothy

Prerequisites: Year IV standing.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: This course involves interactions with the pediatric orthopaedic service at Children's Hospital. The department includes divsions of sports medicine, hand surgery, spine surgery, and neuromuscular programs. The curriculum can...

Directors: Healy, Gerald Burke; Rahbar, Reza

Prerequisites: Year III standing

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: The course is designed for third and fourth year medical students interested in the field of Otolaryngology. Students will be exposed to outpatient clinics, inpatient care, and the operating room. He/she will be expected to...

Directors: Boyd, Theonia Kamman

Prerequisites: Pathophysiology

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: The course is designed to teach the principles and techniques of pathology, with particular emphasis on diseases of childhood. Gross and microscopic studies emphasize clinico-pathologic correlations and the impact of development...

Directors: Kinane, Thomas Bernard; Scirica, Christina A.

Prerequisites: Women's & Children's required; Medicine I suggested

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.

Location: MGH, VBK 001

Time: 8:00 am, first morning of rotation.

Description: This is an advanced pediatric clerkship designed for students who have completed their Core Clerkship in Pediatrics and who desire a more intensive experience with increased responsibility in the management of pediatric patients....

Directors: Chiang, Vincent W.

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics. Core Clerkship in Medicine (Strongly encouraged).

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month. Not offered in December.

Description: The advanced pediatrics rotation is a sub-internship, where fourth year students will be assigned to one of the general pediatric teams at Children's and be expected to work with and as one of the pediatric interns. This involves...

Directors: Forman, Sara F.

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Women & Children's.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time in Jul, Aug, Oct.

Description: This course provides experience for the medical student in a busy outpatient adolescent medicine practice. The rotation will prepare students for patient care in the outpatient setting that they may experience during residency...

Directors: Cheng, Jennifer Kimberly

Prerequisites: Year III standing. Must also have had core Clerkship in Pediatrics. Students should contact Dr. Nethersole after being scheduled (355-8565).

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered in July.

Description: This is a course for fourth year students who have completed their core pediatrics rotation and are interested in further outpatient pediatrics training. Students will spend several sessions a week in Children's Hospital Primary...

Directors: Brown, David Whitcomb

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics, and Medicine

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: This clinical elective in pediatric cardiovascular disease is a month-long exploration of the many facets of the current diagnosis and management of congenital and acquired pediatric heart disease. Students will function as a...

Directors: Glader, Laurie Jean

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered July and August.

Description: This elective provides inpatient and outpatient experiences in caring for children with developmental disabilities and special health care needs. The student will participate in interdisciplinary developmental assessment teams...

Directors: Levitsky, Lynne L.

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.

Description: The course offers a clinical overview, using the clerkship technique, of problems of somatic growth, development, chronic illness, and endocrine/metabolic dysfunction. This course will enable the student to recognize causes of...

Directors: Stafford, Diane

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Medicine I and/or Pediatrics.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: This is a one month clinical clerkship in pediatric endocrinology and metabolism through adolescence. The student will beomce an integral member of a team of pediatric residents, Endocrine fellows and an attending responsiblt...

Directors: Holmes, Lewis Ball

Prerequisites: Clinical clerkships in pediatrics and obstetrics are suggested.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered July and August.

Description: This course introduces students to the principles of human genetics and teratology and how these principles relate to patient care. The teaching focuses on consultations with children and adults evaluated in the daily Genetics...

Directors: Stoler, Joan Marilyn

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Medicine I and/or Pediatrics.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.

Description: This course will introduce students to the application of basic genetic principles to clinical genetics problems. Students will attend Genetic Rounds and clinics and participate, under supervision, in the consultation/management...

Directors: Heeney, Matthew; Heeney, Matthew Macleod; Neufeld, Ellis Jacob

Prerequisites: Core Clerkships in Medicine I and Pediatrics

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: The course will develop awareness and experience of non-malignant clinical hematology of infants, children and adolescents. The format is a clinical consult service. Students with closely with the hematology fellow and attending...

Directors: Burchett, Sandra K.; McIntosh, Kenneth; Wessels, Michael Robert

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Location: 1st Day: Dept. of Med. Conf. Rm, Hunnewell 3

Time: 8:00 am, first day.

Description: The student will join the fellow-resident-attending team in caring for all consultations in difficult infectious disease problems at the CH, the student taking responsibility for his/her share of this busy service. The schedule...

Directors: Gregory, Mary Lucia Partin

Prerequisites: Women's and Children's Clerkship.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: The course will introduce students to the physiologic and biochemical adaptations involved in the transition from fetus to newborn. Students will understand, recognize, and manage the disease states that result from prematurity,...

Directors: Parad, Richard Barry; Ringer, Steven Alan

Prerequisites: Core Clerkships in Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Medicine

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: This is an elective experience for students with clincial experience in Pediatrics that extends knowledge in Newborn and Perinatal Medicine. The student will join a team of physicians and participate in the care of patients in...

Directors: Hossain, Tanzeema

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics, Medicine and Surgery, OBY/GYN

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: This course will introduce students to the normal physiological and biochemical adaptations involved in the transition from fetus to newborn and acquaint the student with the recognition and treatment of major disease states that...

Directors: Grier, Holcombe Edwin

Prerequisites: Medicine I

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: Students each function as a member of the oncology consult team at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. The team consists of an attending physician, a fellow, and a nurse practitioner. The team consults...

Directors: Hardy, Stephen C.; Israel, Esther Jacobowitz

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Pediatrics

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month

Description: This course is designed to introduce the student to the wide range of gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases encountered in infants, children, and adolescents. The student will have the opportunity to participate in the management...

Directors: Leichtner, Alan Michael

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Pediatrics

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Fulltime every month

Description: This course is designed to provide the student in-depth exposure to the wide range of gastrointestinal and hepatic disease encountered in infants, children, and adolescents. The student will rotate on the inpatient gastroenterology...

Directors: Boyer, Debra

Prerequisites: Medicine I or Pediatrics

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered in December.

Description: The course offers firsthand experience with pediatric lung disease. Students will participate in the diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic decision-making for hospitalized and ambulatory patients with support and instruction from...

Directors: Antoon, Alia Yousif

Prerequisites: Medicine I, Surgery or Pediatrics.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: The course offers an opportunity to participate in the multidisciplinary approach taken by the staff of Shriners Hospital for Children-Burns Hospital Boston to the complex problem of burns in children. This will provide an overview...

Directors: Noviski, Natan

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Pediatrics.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: Students will rotate as team members in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. The Team consists of an attending, a fellow, and 3-4 residents in pediatrics and emergency medicine. Students will...

Directors: Graham, Robert Joel S.

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Pediatrics.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: The pediatric critical-care rotation in the Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (MSICU) at Children's Hospital Boston is designed to teach students to recognize, prevent and/or treat critical illness in children. Staff, at all...

Directors: Sharma, Amita

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered July and August.

Location: MGH, ACC 709.

Time: 8:00 am

Description: Students participate in clinical activities of pediatric nephrology, including clinics and consultations. Students will be exposed to the spectrum of pediatric renal disease: nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, chronic renal failure,...

Directors: Harmon, William Edward; Herrin, John Thomas

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month. Not offered Jul and August.

Description: The course will provide a working knowledge of clinical nephrology, including principles to integrate natural history, immunopathology and methods of patient evaluation ( renal biopsy, special studies, response to therapy and...

Directors: Rappaport, Leonard Allan; Weissman, Laura Treye

Prerequisites: Pediatrics rotation

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered July and August.

Description: The Developmental Medicine Center provides evaluation and follow-up for children with developmental and behavioral concerns. It serves as both a fellow and residency training program and serves a wide variety of patient needs....

Directors: Lo, Clifford W.

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Pediatrics

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: This course will provide the student with an intensive approach to nutritional problems in the hospitalized patient and to general topics in pediatric nutrition. Activities will include: didactic and clinical experience in pediatric...

Directors: Gonzalez, Wanda I.

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics. Written permission must be obtained from C.D. prior to registering for this clerkship, Spanish proficiency preferred

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered June, July, August.

Description: The course offers students the opportunity to explore community medicine at MGH Chelsea Healthcare Center. Chelsea is an small city with a high percentage of immigrants and low income households. Approximately half their time...

Directors: Weiner, Debra L.

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: The student will learn to care for children with a wide variety of illnesses and injuries and will gain an appreciation of aspects of pediatric primary and tertiary care practice unique to the emergency setting. Students, under...

Directors: Nimec, Donna Lynn

Prerequisites: Women's & Children's Health (Pediatrics) required. Intro to Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation suggested.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Location: Spaulding Rehab. Hosp.

Time: 8:30 am

Description: The rotation in Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation will offer the student experience in working with children who have special needs. The primary objectives will include working with families, understanding the pathophysiology...

Directors: Hillier, Debra

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: Introduction to Pediatric Critical Care is a course offered to 4th year and qualified 3rd year medical students interested in the evaluation, stabilization, and management of critically ill children. The course encompasses 4...

Directors: Rater, Michael

Prerequisites: Core Clerkships in Psychiatry and Pediatrics

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.

Description: This course acquaints students with the current theoretical models and clinical practices in child and adolescent psychiatry. The focus is on the student's active participation. Utilizing a developmental framework, the course...

Directors: Kitts, Robert Li; Raviola, Giuseppe James

Prerequisites: Year III standing. Must have clinical clerkship experience

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered December.

Description: The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry elective is a four week clinical experience on the Inpatient Psychiatry Service, the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation Service and in the Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. There is direct supervision...

Directors: Lieberman, Gillian B.

Prerequisites: Core Radiology.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered July and August.

Description: This course is offered to students who complete the Radiology Core Clerkship and want a more thorough understanding of the Radiologic subspecialties. The standard course would include a week each of CT scanning, ultrasound, MRI...

Directors: Lathi, Subhash G.

Prerequisites: Year III standing.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Location: West Roxbury VAMC, Dept. of Radiology.

Time: Contact Maureen Sullivan (617) 323-7700, X6412.

Description: This course is designed to provide students with a basic knowledge of radiologic interpretation of plain films, CT scans, ultrasound and MRI. The student will also spend time in the fluoroscopic and angiographic suites, to gain...

Directors: Clarke, Peter Douglas; DiSalvo, Donald N.

Prerequisites: Core Radiology.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered July, Aug, Dec.

Description: The course provides an opportunity for students who, having completed the core clerkship, wish further instruction in specific radiological subspecialty areas. Programs will be individually tailored to students' interests....

Directors: Novelline, Robert Arthur; Uppot, Raul N.

Prerequisites: Core Radiology.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered July and August.

Description: The advanced radiology clerkship is designed to build upon the fundamentals of radiological interpretation presented during the core radiology clerkship. Students will expand their knowledge of the clinical indications for imaging...

Directors: Rodriguez, Diana P.

Prerequisites: Core Radiology. Pediatric or surgical clinical clerkship suggested

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.

Description: Students will be assigned to each one of the organ based divisions in the department such as abdominal, musculoskeletal, thoracic, oncology, vascular, fetal,interventional and neuroradiology imaging. Each of these divisons consist...

Directors: Doody, Daniel Patrick

Prerequisites: Year III standing.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: The course is designed to familiarize students with both routine and unusual surgical problems in infants and children. Students are offered a month in the Division of Pediatric Surgery, where they participate as members of the...

Directors: Fishman, Steven J.

Prerequisites: Year III standing.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: A clinical clerkship which offers an opportunity to see and participate in the diagnosis and management of a wide range of surgical disorders of infants and children (abdominal, thoracic, genital, transplant, trauma, endocrine)....

Directors: Kearney, Michael Christopher.

Prerequisites: Core Surgery.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.

Description: The course is designed as an introduction to urological problems. Common urological disorders (infection, neoplasia, BPH, stones, hematuria, and incontinence) will be reviewed systematically. The student will make daily rounds...

Directors: Doyle, Christopher Joseph; Richie, Jerome Paul

Prerequisites: Core Surgery

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered December and May.

Description: Thie course is designed to enable students to concentrate on the clnical aspects of adult and pediatric urologic surgery, pathology, physiology, and radiology. Students will participate as members of the patient care team in...

Directors: Richie, Jerome Paul

Prerequisites: Core Medicine I and Surgery

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month. Not offered Dec and May.

Description: The increasing emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of genitourinary neoplasms has dramatically improved survival rates. This rotation acquaints students with the rapidly changing field of genitourinary oncology,...

Directors: McDougal, W. Scott

Prerequisites: Year III standing.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: The course will orient students toward clinical urology with emphasis on the pathophysiology of disease and diagnostic and therapeutic modalities available for management. The clerkship experience will include: 1) assignment of...

Directors: Retik, Alan Burton

Prerequisites: Year III standing.

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.

Description: The student will attend daily rounds, observe and/or participate in the operating room, see patients in both the office and clinic setting, and attend formal conferences.