Full-time attending physicians are integral members of the teams providing care on both the infant and the children's acute disease services. It is the policy of the department to delegate the primary responsibility of caring for all patients to the house staff. The pediatric residency program at MUSC includes a very strong and diverse training experience in adolescent medicine that is designed to provide a good foundation for general adolescent care in pediatric practice. The pediatric resident may have experience in all these clinical settings while on the ambulatory rotation. In addition to this clinical training, didactic sessions in adolescent medicine are scheduled into the resident lecture series.
Residents participate in a month-long adolescent medicine rotation.
The rotation includes experience in all the adolescent clinics as well as participation in an adolescent substance abuse treatment program and adolescent medicine didactic seminars. Other specific areas such as sports medicine, private practice adolescent medicine or eating disorder group therapy sessions can be arranged at the request of the resident.