The Department of Child Health focuses on the health of children within the framework of family and society. Faculty emphasize the growth, nutrition, development and mental and physical health of children while teaching skills in interviewing and patient care. Medical students learn to recognize the special emotional and physical features of infancy and childhood. Medical students are involved in daily conferences, lectures, teaching rounds and the admission and care of hospitalized and ambulatory patients. An interdisciplinary patient-care program helps children with multiple disabilities.
Students learn about the early processes of growth and development during their first two years.
During their third year, students enroll in an eight-week clerkship, during which they participate in history taking, examinations and clinical and laboratory evaluation of normal newborns, infants and older children as well as those with intensive illnesses. There is special emphasis on primary care of children in rural settings, and all students have the opportunity to work with pediatricians in private and rural practices during their third-year clerkship. Check the calendar.