Category: 3 Year Fellowship
Close Date: Will remain open until position is filled
Description:
This is a 3 year ACGME approved fellowship that includes an opportunity for Masters of Public Health (MPH) opportunities for research in adolescent depression, HIV in adolescents and young adults, and violence prevention, as well as a broad range of clinical experiences including school-based health centers, adolescent psychiatry inpatient, joint med-psych outpatient, eating disorders, juvenile detention clinics, adolescent gynecology, family planning, sports medicine, obesity treatment, trauma and violence prevention.
Program goals
The subspecialty Adolescent Medicine Fellowship is designed to promote competence in clinical care of adolescents and young adults, development of research skills that will support clinical and health services research oriented toward adolescents, development of advocacy skills in the area of adolescent health, and the development of teaching skills in adolescent medicine.
Curriculum
Clinical
UIC experience
Core faculty will provide training in the outpatient care center adolescent clinic, where the fellow will have a half-day continuity clinic for all 3 years of the program as well as additional assignments in general adolescent clinic, eating disorders clinic, and adolescent gynecology clinic. Inpatient experiences include working with a faculty partner as a co-attending on the wards and acting as a consultant for hospitalized adolescents.
The fellow will also do a 3-month rotation in Adolescent Psychiatry Unit (inpatient and outpatient) under the supervision of the Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty and, for medical aspects, Adolescent Medicine Faculty. The fellow will have a 2-month outpatient rotation in Family Planning where they will work closely with an attending in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Sports Medicine specialists from the Departments of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Medicine will provide training in the Sports Medicine Clinic which provides care to UIC sports teams as well as the general public. In addition, the fellows have the opportunity to rotate with other UIC subspecialists in clinics which specifically address the needs of Adolescents. The fellow will also complete outpatient rotations in the community-based Job Corps clinics attended by the Adolescent Medicine Specialist.
Stroger Hospital and the Cook County Bureau of Health Services experience
Key clinical experiences will be obtained through partnerships with the Stroger (Cook County) Division of Adolescent Medicine. The fellow will have a half-day continuity clinic at Stroger for the entirety of 3 years. In addition, they will have the opportunity to experience outpatient rotations in the Adolescent and Young Adult HIV clinic at the Core Center, caring for youth in the Cook County the Juvenile Detention Center , provide consultative inpatient experience with adolescent and young adult trauma patients in community linkage through the Stroger Trauma Unit – UIC School of Public Health Program Ceasefire connection, and work at the Morton East School-Based Health Clinic.
Research
Research training and experience (18 months) will be obtained through mentoring by faculty both within and outside of the division. The fellows are given the opportunity to participate in additional training, including an MPH in Maternal and Child Health at the UIC School of Public Health. Fellows are expected to apply for funding, design and conduct research, and to present and publish their research as part of their training and in order to be board-eligible. Advocacy training and experience is also a required part of the fellowship.
Prerequisite Training/Selection Criteria
Applicants for the Adolescent Medicine fellowship must have satisfactorily completed residency training in pediatric in an ACGME approved program. Applicants who have graduated from a foreign medical school must have a valid, unexpired ECFMG certificate to enter a program in Graduate Medical Education. *For interested foreign applicants, the only visa we accept is J-1 visa. Applicants are selected on the basis of commitment to advancing adolescent medicine, a history of demonstrated skill in interpersonal communication during residency, medical knowledge as reflected in residency evaluations and test scores, and prior history of scholarship and advocacy.
Malpractice insurance is provided by the University of Illinois system and an excellent benefits package is available including vacations, sick time, CME, health and life insurance. For more information on benefits: Adolescent Medicine Fellowship | Department of Pediatrics | University of Illinois College of Medicine
***For fullest consideration please email CV, copy of MD/OD License, 3 letters of recommendation to agasca2@uic.edu.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Adriana Gasca
Program Coordinator
Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program
University of Illinois at Chicago
Email: agasca2@uic.edu
