This Web document is updated twice a year, on or about the first day of registration for Fall and Spring semesters. Patient work, unit rounds, well-baby clinics, and special conferences of the pediatric staff. Medical students only. Course will introduce medical students to the physiology of and diseases seen in newborns, infants, children, and adolescents. Meant to give students with basic clinical skills an opportunity to see patients in a clinical practice, and to see how a private practice is managed.
Preceptorships are available only in settings outside the Salt Lake Valley.
The experience will be full time, and preceptors will be selected in consultation with the student. The student should contact the course director several months before the anticipated preceptorship in order to set this up. Cross-listed with SURG 7390. A concentrated exposure to clinical problems in pediatric surgery, both common and uncommon. Designed for senior students who are interested in the care of critically ill children outside of the neonatal age range.