Directors: S. L. Redd, M. A. Rockoff

Prerequisites: Year III standing.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered July.  Time: By arrangement, Sheila Frederick, (617) 355-7759  Place: 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 ...

Directors: K. J. Staley

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics or prior course in neurology.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time: 9:00 am  Place: MGH, Vincent-Burnham 731

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 ...

Directors: D. K. Urion

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics or prior course in neurology.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: D. G. Hunter

Prerequisites: Year III standing  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: M. T. Hresko

Prerequisites: Year IV standing.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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. ...

Directors: G. B. Healy, R. . Rahbar

Prerequisites: Year III standing  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: T. K. Boyd

Prerequisites: Pathophysiology  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: T. B. Kinane, C. A. Scirica

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.  Time: 8:00 am, first morning of rotation.  Place: MGH, VBK 001

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 ...

Directors: V. W. Chiang

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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 ...

Directors: S. F. Forman

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Women & Children's.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time in Jul, Aug, Oct.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: J. K. Cheng

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.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: D. W. Brown

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics, and Medicine  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: L. J. Glader

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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 ...

Directors: L. L. Levitsky

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: D. . Stafford

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: L. B. Holmes

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.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: J. M. Stoler

Prerequisites: Clinical clerkships in pediatrics and obstetrics are suggested.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: M. . Heeney, M. M. Heeney, E. J. Neufeld

Prerequisites: Core Clerkships in Medicine I and Pediatrics  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: S. K. Burchett, K. . McIntosh, M. R. Wessels

Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time: 8:00 am, first day.  Place: 1st Day: Dept. of Med. Conf. Rm, Hunnewell 3

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 ...

Directors: M. P. Gregory

Prerequisites: Women's and Children's Clerkship.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: R. B. Parad, S. A. Ringer

Prerequisites: Women's and Children's Clerkship.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: T. . Hossain

Prerequisites: Women's and Children's Clerkship.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: H. E. Grier

Prerequisites: Medicine I  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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. ...

Directors: S. C. Hardy, E. J. Israel

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Pediatrics  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: A. M. Leichtner

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Pediatrics  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Fulltime every month  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: D. . Boyer

Prerequisites: Medicine I or Pediatrics  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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 ...

Directors: A. Y. Antoon

Prerequisites: Medicine I, Surgery or Pediatrics.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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. ...

Directors: N. . Noviski

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Pediatrics.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: R. J. Graham

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Pediatrics.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: A. . Sharma

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month. Not offered July and August.  Time: 8:00 am  Place: MGH, ACC 709.

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, ...

Directors: W. E. Harmon, J. T. Herrin

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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, ...

Directors: L. A. Rappaport, L. T. Weissman

Prerequisites: Pediatrics rotation  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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 ...

Directors: C. W. Lo

Prerequisites: Medicine I and Pediatrics  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: W. I. Gonzalez

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics. Written permission must be obtained from C.D. prior to registering for this clerkship, Spanish proficiency required.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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 ...

Directors: D. L. Weiner

Prerequisites: Core Clerkship in Pediatrics  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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. ...

Directors: D. L. Nimec

Prerequisites: Women's & Children's Health (Pediatrics) required. Intro to Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation suggested.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time: 8:30 am  Place: Spaulding Rehab. Hosp.

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, ...

Directors: D. . Hillier

Prerequisites:   Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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. ...

Directors: M. . Rater

Prerequisites: Core Clerkships in Psychiatry and Pediatrics  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: R. L. Kitts, G. J. Raviola

Prerequisites: Core Clerkships in Psychiatry and Pediatrics  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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. ...

Directors: G. B. Lieberman

Prerequisites: Core Radiology.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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 ...

Directors: S. G. Lathi

Prerequisites: Core Radiology.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time: Contact Maureen Sullivan (617) 323-7700, X6412.  Place: West Roxbury VAMC, Dept. of Radiology.

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 ...

Directors: P. D. Clarke, D. N. DiSalvo

Prerequisites: Core Radiology.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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 ...

Directors: R. A. Novelline, R. N. Uppot

Prerequisites: Core Radiology.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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 ...

Directors: D. P. Rodriguez

Prerequisites: Core Radiology.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: D. P. Doody

Prerequisites: Year III standing.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: S. J. Fishman

Prerequisites: Year III standing.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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, ...

Directors: M. C. Kearney

Prerequisites: Core Surgery.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time for one month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: C. J. Doyle, J. P. Richie

Prerequisites: Core Surgery.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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 ...

Directors: J. P. Richie

Prerequisites: Core Surgery.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

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

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 ...

Directors: W. S. McDougal

Prerequisites: Core Surgery.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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 ...

Directors: A. B. Retik

Prerequisites: Core Surgery.  Credits: 4 CREDITS (Clinical Elective)

Offered: Full time every month.  Time:   Place:

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.