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Adolescent Medicine
Fellowship
The University of Colorado School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics and
The Children's Hospital offers a one- or three-year fellowship in adolescent medicine. The fellowship is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education. The goal of the fellowship is to provide physicians who are board eligible in pediatrics, internal medicine or family medicine with in-depth training in adolescent medicine that will prepare them for a career in clinical or academic medicine.
Fellowship application information is provided at the end of this page.
Clinical Programs and Settings
Clinical training during the fellowship includes extensive experience with
primary adolescent health care and specific problems common during adolescence,
including abnormalities of growth and development; orthopedic and sports
medicine problems; issues relating to sexuality and reproductive health
(including the colposcopic examination of abnormal Pap smears); psychosocial,
mental health and substance abuse problems; and the management of teenagers
with chronic illnesses and recurrent somatic symptoms.
The Children's Hospital's Adolescent Medicine Center has ten faculty members: seven physicians, two mid-level providers and a research assistant. Consultations are available from psychology, nutrition and pediatric subspecialty services.
The Children's Hospital Adolescent Health Center serves as the primary
referral site for the entire Rocky Mountain Region and has 5,000 patient visits a
year. Patients from a variety of socio-economic, ethnic and cultural
backgrounds present with a wide range of acute and chronic medical and
psychiatric diseases. The Adolescent Health Center has a nationally recognized
eating disorders treatment center and adolescent maternity program. The fellow
will have the opportunity to teach and supervise medical students, residents
and other trainees in the Adolescent Health Center, to consult on medical and
surgical patients admitted to the eight-bed adolescent inpatient unit and the 16-bed
adolescent psychiatric unit and to be an active participant in the eating
disorders or adolescent maternity programs.
The Denver Department of Health and Hospitals has two full-time adolescent medicine faculty members. The Teen Clinics at its Eastside and Westside Health Centers have a total of 10,000 visits a year. These clinics, which are part of Denver's nationally recognized neighborhood health program, provide a comprehensive range of acute and preventive care ambulatory services for teenagers who use the public health care system. Both clinics offer extensive experiences with primary adolescent health and medical care and with adolescent reproductive health care.
The Denver School-Based Clinics: The adolescent medicine program
established student health care centers at eight middle and high schools as part
of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's School-Based Adolescent Health Care
Program. These school-based clinics offer opportunities to learn about health
care in an alternative setting, to learn program administrative skills and to
learn how to provide effective health education.
Research Training
Formal Course Work: Fellows may enroll in formal courses offered by the
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado
School of Medicine. Although course work in biostatistics, epidemiology and
research design is required for three-year fellows, the following courses could
be taken electively: computer systems, health administration, health promotion
and disease prevention and program planning and evaluation. Individual studies
depend on personal interests and needs and could lead to a Master of Science in
Public Health.
Research Participation: The three-year fellows are expected to
participate in a weekly Section research conference and to design, conduct and
complete one independent study that results in both presentation at a national
professional meeting and in publication. Each fellow's research activities will
be guided by an advisory committee of three faculty members (at least one must
be from the Section of Adolescent Medicine) who share the fellow's research
interests. We are best equipped to train fellows who are interested in studying
problems related to the distribution of adolescent health care services,
adolescent pregnancy and parenting, reproductive growth and development and
eating disorders. Three-year fellows are expected to learn basic skills related
to the design, implementation and evaluation of research studies, and to
acquire the knowledge required to participate as an active member of a
multidisciplinary research team.
Academic Development
Fellows will have opportunities to enhance their knowledge and professional
growth through several activities. They will learn how to provide clinical
supervision to medical students, residents and other trainees. The faculty will
provide guided direction, so that fellows will gradually be able to assume full
responsibility for supervising in an outpatient setting. Fellows are also
expected to learn how to teach professional colleagues in small groups and in
lecture settings. They are expected to participate actively in and to provide
discussion and leadership for daily interactive resident seminars, a weekly case
conference and a monthly journal club. They will also teach large groups of
housestaff as part of the pediatric training program's resident core conference
series.
Fellows will have multiple opportunities to learn how adolescent medicine
programs operate. They will be invited to attend Section faculty meetings and
will be given administrative responsibility for a programmatic component at
either the Adolescent Health Center or a school-based clinic. In addition, they
will have the opportunity to work closely with faculty employed by Denver Health
and Hospitals to gain firsthand knowledge of the organization and financing of
health care services and of quality improvement programs. On a state level,
fellows will be invited to attend meetings of the Advisory Council on Adolescent
Health, which is an interdisciplinary group commissioned by the Colorado
Department of Health to provide counsel about and advocacy for Colorado's
adolescents. Finally, interested fellows may work on state-wide projects in
concert with the State Adolescent Health Program.
Schedule
First Year
(One-year fellows will only do first year)
50% Clinical Care (70% for one-year fellows)
20% Research (0% for one-year fellows)
30% Academic Development
Second Year
40% Clinical Care
35% Research Training
25% Academic Development
Third Year
30% Clinical Care
40% Research Training
30% Academic Development
Evening and weekend call is taken from home and is shared with the full-time
faculty.
Fellowship Application
Our fellowship application form
is provided as an Adobe PDF file.* Please print, complete and return your application form to us, either by fax or mail (information is provided at the end of the form).
If you would prefer us to mail you a copy of the application form, or, if you require further information about the program, please contact us:
Eric J. Sigel, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Adolescent Medicine
The Children's Hospital
13123 East 16th Avenue, B-025
Aurora, Colorado 80045
Tel: 720-777-6133
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