The Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is a three-year training program for physicians. Each year of the program is tailored to provide individualized clinical, academic, and research experience.
Curriculum
The first-year of fellowship focuses on
- Acquiring clinical skills in the primary and acute medical care of adolescents and young adults, 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 (4 sessions per week)
- Nutrition and wellness
- Parenting teens and infants
- HIV-infected youth
- Transgender Care
- Eating Disorders
- 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)
- College Health (one session per week)
Scholarly Activity
- Case/core didactic/interdisciplinary/research conferences
- Weekly fellows workshop
- Facilitate journal club
- Teaching 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 (4-5 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 including eating disorders
- Teen Tot program (Care for teen parents and their child in a multidisciplinary setting)
- 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
- Teaching 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
- 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