Community Medicine-Pediatrics
Director:
James Mugford, M. D.
Duration: 4 weeks
Students per month: 1
This elective is based at the Mason Square Neighborhood Health Center, the ambulatory training site for the Baystate/Tufts University Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program. This clerkship will allow the student to become involved in the community-medicine approach to the delivery of primary care for both adults and children.
Potential activities include: seeing students at a school health center, home visits for pregnant teenagers and teen mothers, the delivery of health care to an incarcerated population, involvement in a variety of specialty clinics at Neighborhood Health Center (including diabetes care, podiatry care, HIV management, sexually transmitted diseases and others), and seeing urgent care patients at the Health Center. The clerkship also includes time for the student to research a particular interest in the field of community medicine.
The following conferences are included in the schedule: daily morning conferences, community medicine seminars, bi-weekly med-peds conferences, and both Pediatrics and Medicine Grand Rounds.
Students will have the opportunity to interact with the staff at the Neighborhood Health Center, Medicine/Pediatrics residents, Medicine/Pediatrics faculty, and a variety of other providers including nurse practitioners, social workers and others. Students will also have the opportunity to spend time on the Medicine and/or Pediatric wards.
Students will be required to work one or two evenings in the month. A car is necessary for this rotation.
If you are interested in our
4th year elective, please submit an application.