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Adolescent Medicine
Education Overview
The University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics and The Children's Hospital offer a 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.
Clinical training during residency includes 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; psychosocial, mental health, and substance abuse problems; and the management of teenagers with chronic illnesses and recurrent somatic symptoms.
An elective in adolescent medicine is available for fourth-year medical students who have successfully completed a pediatric clerkship.
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