The Adolescent Medicine Clinic is a separate clinical facility that provides comprehensive primary care and tertiary care for teenagers referred from their community physicians with specialty problems.
Training includes both a didactic component and patient interaction.
In addition, there is an active and large population of patients seen with eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. There is an opportunity to receive additional GYN training, sports medicine experience and interaction with area mental health professionals who work with adolescents. There are also opportunities to participate in school-based programs, as well as to spend time in an adolescent drug rehabilitation center. Adolescent Medicine includes inpatient coverage of adolescents as well as the Adolescent Clinic. Nurse practitioners and faculty, along with pediatric residents, staff this clinic.