Curriculum

The first-year of fellowship focuses on

• Acquiring clinical skills in the primary and acute medical care of adolescents, psychosocial/mental health assessments, and gynecology/reproductive health care.
• Developing academic skills by teaching small group seminars for residents and medical students, and by co-attending on the inpatient unit.
• Developing and strengthening research skills by selecting a mentor and formulating the early stages of a research project, up to submission of a proposal to the Institutional Review Board.

Clinical Activity

• On-site at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (four sessions per week)
• Primary care and preventative care (medical and reproductive)
• Acute care
• Inpatient care (co-attend 13-17 weeks per year)
• Specialty care
• Nutrition and wellness
• Parenting teens and infants
• HIV-infected youth
• Transgender Care
• Eating Disorders
• Off-site locations
• School-based Health Clinic (one session per week)

Scholarly Activity

• Case/core didactic/interdisciplinary/research conferences
• Weekly fellows workshop
• Facilitate journal club
• Teach seminars for medical students and residents

Research

• Identify a mentor/preceptor
• Attend didactics on the fundamentals of research methodology
• Identify a research area and formulate a research question
• Perform background literature search
• Submission for IRB approval (if necessary)

Second Year

The second-year of fellowship focuses on

• Continuing to develop clinical proficiency
• Learning new academic, administrative and research skills.
• Opportunities to train in LARC placement and management and experiencing adolescent healthcare in a private practice setting.
• Continuing work on scholarly activities and research

Clinical Activity

• On-site at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (three sessions per week)
• Primary care and preventative care (medical and reproductive)
• Acute care
• Inpatient care (co-attend 13-17 weeks per year)
• Specialty care
• Nutrition and wellness
• Teen Tot program
• Parenting teens and infants
• HIV-infected youth
• Transgender Care
• Off-site locations (one session per week )
• Columbia Health
• Complementary experiences (one session per week)
• Private Practice Setting at AYAM
• Long acting reversible contraception (LARC) insertion training

Scholarly Activity

• Case/core didactic/research conferences
• Weekly fellows workshop
• Facilitate journal club
• Teach seminars for medical students and residents
• Clinical preceptor for first-year medical students learning history and physical examination skills
• Health education and outreach to schools and community sites

Research

• Research project development
• Implementation of research project
• Data collection/retrieval and analysis
• Initiation of writing

The third-year of fellowship focuses on

• Refining the clinical, academic, administrative, and research skills acquired over the previous two years.
• Developing academic skills such as precepting learners in the clinic, co-attending on the in-patient unit,  providing lectures to residents and students, possibly presenting at Pediatric Grand Rounds
• Opportunities to work with experts outside of MSAHC in the area of eating disorders and sports medicine
• Presenting research at a national conference meeting.
• Developing a new program in an area of special interest.

Clinical Activity

• On-site at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (three sessions per week)
• Primary care and preventative care (medical and reproductive)
• Acute care
• Inpatient care (co-attend 13-17 weeks per year)
• Specialty care
• Nutrition and wellness
• Parenting teens and infants
• HIV-infected youth
• Transgender Care
• Complementary Experiences (one session per week)
• Orthopedics/Sports Medicine
• Eating Disorders

Scholarly Activity

• Case/core didactic/research conferences
• Facilitate journal club
• Organize and schedule instructive seminars for medical students and residents
• Precept house staff with faculty back-up
• Serve as junior attending on the inpatient unit, primarily responsible for patient care and teaching activities
• Learn about service grants (where and how to get funding)
• Health education and outreach to schools and community sites

Research

• Research projection completion
• Interpretation of data and writing up results in the form of:
• Abstract submission for consideration for presentation at a national meeting
• Formal manuscript preparation with the ultimate goal of submitting to a peer reviewed journal for publication
• Conduct and present at research seminars