Pediatrics
Chairperson:
Hugh O'Brodovich, MD
Department web site:
http://pediatrics.stanford.edu/
Faculty of Pediatrics:
http://pediatrics.stanford.edu/faculty
Preclinical Instruction includes early clinical experiences to those students who seek an opportunity to correlate preclinical coursework with clinical problems. In addition, a limited number of predoctoral research fellowships are available in the departmental laboratories. The investigative interests of individual members of the department range from studies of cell differentiation to chronic disease in children.
Pediatrics co-teaches PEDS 205, a major preclinical required course in Laboratory Medicine-Hematology. The Pediatrics Department co-sponsors PEDS 282, Pregnancy, Birth, Infancy and Childhood, in which preclinical students are paired with expectant mothers and follow them through the pregnancy and birth. Clinical Instruction consists of the core Pediatrics clerkship, PEDS 300A, and more than a dozen specialty elective clerkships. The core clerkship (PEDS 300A) involves clinical experience at Packard Children's Hospital and the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
Residency Program offers internship, residency, and fellowship training in all phases of pediatrics. The program includes experiences in the medical, psychosocial, and community aspects of child health and involves rotations at LPCH, SCVMC, and KPMC. The program emphasizes experience in a variety of clinical settings that provide health care for children; experience with all levels of child care from health maintenance to tertiary care; increasing responsibility as the program proceeds; and the opportunity to become familiar with the various clinical and laboratory subdisciplines of pediatrics. In most instances, the primary responsibility for patient management devolves upon the house staff with supervision and support of the full-time faculty and a group of outstanding pediatricians who practice in the local area and participate actively in the teaching program. See program web page: http://med.stanford.edu/pedsres/. Interim director: William Rhine.
Postdoctoral Training opportunities are available. For information, refer to the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs home page at http://postdocs.stanford.edu/ or the departmental home page.
