Fellowship Training Program in Adolescent Medicine
First Year

The first-year fellow will focus on acquiring clinical skills. This will include gaining proficiencies in the primary and acute medical care of adolescents, psychosocial/mental health assessments, and gynecology/reproductive health care. The first-year fellow develops academic skills by teaching small group seminars for residents and medical students, and by co-attending on the inpatient unit.

The fellow will develop and strengthen 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 ten weeks per year)
  • Specialty care
    • Nutrition and wellness
    • Parenting teens and infants
    • HIV-infected youth
• Off-site locations (one session per week September to June)
  • School-based health clinics

Scholarly Activity

• Case/core didactic/interdisciplinary/research conferences
• Weekly fellows workshop
• Organize and present at 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
  • 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
  • Design a research project
  • Complete an IRB application for this project by the end of the first year
  • Submit research project as an abstract or a poster to the Mount Sinai Pediatric Research Day