During the adolescent medicine rotation, residents learn the techniques of interviewing adolescents and become familiar with the scope of problems affecting this patient population. We also are expanding residents' exposure to patients with substance abuse and eating disorders. There is a preceptor for each half day whose sole responsibility is supervision of the continuity clinic. By the end of the PL-1 year, the resident will have approximately 50 continuity patients, and that will increase to about 100 patients by the end of the training program. Our continuity clinic has several unique features.
Residents receive business cards to distribute to patients.
They also have their own examining room marked by a magnetic name plate. To ensure our residents are receiving a well-rounded general pediatric knowledge base, we have a curriculum that is covered at weekly conferences before each resident's clinic. Residents have the opportunity to serve on the Continuity Clinic Advisory Board which makes decisions concerning the clinic. Finally, the director of the continuity clinic is involved nationally in the Ambulatory Pediatric Association's Continuity Clinic Special Interest Group and is the editor of a national continuity clinic newsletter. A retreat is held for all new house officers each fall.