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Adolescent Medicine Fellowship

Overview

The Division of Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine offers a three year ACGME-accredited fellowship. The main goal of the program is to prepare fellows for careers in academic medicine that will include research, teaching, and providing outstanding clinical care to adolescents. The educational program is individualized to suit the interests and needs of each fellow.

The Adolescent Medicine Division provides both subspecialty consultation and primary care to adolescents in a variety of clinical settings. The multidisciplinary outpatient Adolescent Medicine Clinic in Oakland is staffed by adolescent medicine specialists, a psychologist, a nutritionist, and a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist; it also provides federally funded confidential family planning services. In addition, the Adolescent Medicine Division staffs the college health center for Duquesne University, the medical clinic of the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, and a number of other community-based sites. Inpatient care is provided at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, whose new state-of-the-art ‘green’ campus opened in 2009.

Fellows will be provided with ample opportunity to conduct research under the mentorship of the Adolescent Medicine faculty or one of their colleagues throughout the University of Pittsburgh, including in the graduate programs of public health and health policy, as well as at Rand Corporation’s Pittsburgh office if appropriate. Fellows will be guided in designing and implementing an independent research project and preparing it for presentation at a national meeting and publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Fellows will be encouraged to pursue additional research training available throughout the University, including at the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE), which provides formal training in research design, biostatistics, medical writing and presentation, and grant writing. Emphasis will be placed on preparing fellows for a successful research career as future faculty. For more information please contact the Fellowship Program Director, Gina Sucato, MD, MPH, via email at gina.sucato@chp.edu.

Last Update
December 12, 2011

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