Goals
The overall goal of the Pediatric Junior Student Clerkship is to expose the student to an environment in which excellence in pediatric patient care, teaching, and research stimulates the student to explore the health care needs of well and ill children. Although the eight week clerkship period will expose the student to a wide variety of pediatric problems, the clerkship is, by no means, a comprehensive program of pediatric education. It is planned that during the clerkship period the student will be exposed to methods of inquiry which will allow the student to approach and research problems of infants, children, and adolescents which they might not have been exposed to during the clerkship. During the pediatric rotation, the Junior Medical Student is expected to become familiar with many of the ethical and moral issues involved in caring for children, to include recognition of child abuse and the requirement for every physician to remain a child advocate.