Helpful clerkships for peds

[kimos]

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Hello! What other specialties or subspecialties would be most helpful for a 3rd/4th year medical student (in rotations/clerkships)interested in pediatrics?

 

[olemissbabydoc]

Hello! What other specialties or subspecialties would be most helpful for a 3rd/4th year medical student (in rotations/clerkships)interested in pediatrics?

I think there's lots of options here - I'm doing a Radiology month and a peds ER month for two. I have several friends trying ID, Allergy/Immuno. If you're interested in neonatal medicine, perhaps a month of High Risk OB.
This year I did three electives in Genetics, Peds Palliative Care, and Behavioral Pediatrics. All three were useful (but pedi specific).

 

[swim2006]

I guess some of it depends on whether you are trying to decide between something and peds or if you have already decided on peds. If you have already decided on peds do whatever you are interested in...it will be the last time you will get to do some things...go international if you want (there will almost definitely be peds exposure), sports med, wildreness med, radiology, NICU, pedi cards if you are interested in that, ID, GI is popular, PICU if you don't want to do NICU

 

[kimos]

Thank you so much for the replies. If anyone has anything to add, please feel free!
• Peds ER
• Infectious Disease
• Allergy/Immuno
• NICU
• PICU
• Peds Palliative Care
• Behavioral Pediatrics (Peds Psych)
• Sports medicine
• Wilderness medicine
• Peds GI
• Peds Cardiology
• Urology (surgery)
• Peds orthopedic surgery

 

[swim2006]

Oh yeah and if you can do 2 week rotations...I found my ENT rotation really helpful and saw lots of peds patients

 

[Doctorverardoll]

Advice that my advisor gave me was to think about areas of medicine that could be pertinent to peds but not quite under the peds umbrella like derm and sports medicine. It's also a good time to strengthen some weak spots.

As a third year, I didn't have much elective time, but I did 2 weeks in peds endocrinology and I loved it. (Also from my AMA morning rounds email today-"Between 2001 and 2009, prevalence of type 1 disease rose 23% and prevalence of type 2 rose 21%, said Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD, of the University of Colorado in Denver, and colleagues during a press briefing at the American Diabetes Association meeting.")

I think Peds ER is a good rotation to have- it's a lot of bread and butter peds, a great place to practice clinical skills AND do some fun hands-on stuff- splinting, sutures (depending on the attending/family).

I did a PM&R rotation, which while I saw mostly adult patients, the attendings tailored their teachings to peds. It was good to force myself to rethink anatomy (muscle groups, dermatomes) and learn things like return to play rules.

-again- derm is good, infectious disease is generally high yield, tons of peds in ENT
-radiology, anesthesia- I think it is good to get practice in reading films and doing intubations/IVs.

 

[justdoit31]

I'm going into 4th year and decided to do a month each in Peds EM, Peds ID, Peds Hematology (what I want to do long term), and then do 2 weeks each in Peds Cardio, ENT, Anesthesia, and Psych... that's in addition to sub-I, NICU, and ambulatory stuff required. Should be a great year!