Pediatric Infectious Diseases Clerkship

6 credits · Medicine

VISITING: Open to visitors during Autumn, Winter, Spring Quarter only. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Students gain clinical experience working with patients with infectious diseases, including newborns, children, adolescents, and pediatric patients with underlying malignancies, immunological deficiencies, organ transplants, chronic illness and orthopedic problems. Clinical rounds are held daily and outpatient clinic is held once a week. General principles applicable to the management of infections in all age groups are emphasized, as well as basic ID-specific laboratory results such as cultures, antibiotics, susceptibility data and diagnostic studies. In addition, students participate in a variety of weekly didactic sessions, clinical conferences and laboratory rounds. Students also should attend the Pediatric Residency Program's Morning Report, Noon Didactics and Grand Rounds as the schedule allows. Opportunities exist to explore interests in antimicrobial stewardship, infection control and prevention, as well as other facets of being a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist. For visiting students, please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. Stanford students wishing to enroll during Summer Quarter, please contact the clerkship director for permission PREREQUISITES: Pediatrics 300A and Medicine 300A. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full-time for 4 weeks, 1 student per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Danielle Macris Nahal, M.D., dnahal42@stanford.edu. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Kim Vo, ktvo@stanford.edu, 650-736-2005. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: Center for Academic Medicine, Peds ID Division, 4th Floor, 453 Quarry Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304. Contact Dr. Nahal at dnahal42@stanford.edu and Kim Vo at ktvo@stanford.edu prior to start date. Time: 8:30am. CALL CODE: 0 (no call or rounding on weekends). OTHER FACULTY: M. Amieva, J. Burns, S. Chen, E. Egan, L. Eguiguren, H. Gans, A. Khan, L. Kushner, D. LaBeaud, G. Lee, R. Mathew, S. Nadimpalli, T. Pham, H. Schwenk, T. Seddik, D. Vu. LOCATION: LPCH.