Pediatrics Clerkship - Patient Care

8 units

The emphasis of the Pediatric Clerkship will be on common pediatric illnesses, injuries, and normal development. We also want you to experience the unique opportunity within Pediatric medicine to care for patients from infancy through adolescence and into adulthood. Each age presents its own challenges, and its own rewards. To help expose our students to each age and stage within Pediatrics, our students will rotate on inpatient pediatric teams at St Louis Children’s Hospital, attend newborn deliveries and participate in the newborn care, and spend time in an acute care setting with a focus on “bread and butter” chief complaints. We are very excited to hear from any students considering Pediatrics as a career and look forward to a long-term relationship with you where you will learn much more about Pediatrics than we can teach in 8 weeks. We feel this clerkship is most essential, however, for those students who will NOT become pediatricians as this short time may be the only experience you will have learning about Pediatrics. Some basic Pediatric knowledge is essential for any physician. At some point, someone will almost certainly approach you in your personal life with questions about their children, and we want you to be competent and comfortable to triage these concerns.