Pediatrics

 

Ambulatory Community Selective
Pediatric Option 

Requirements
 

Suggestion and Request: 
send US A photo of yourself
at your community site, with your preceptor,
or at a community agency.  We'll add them to our website.

 
                                 Oziel Ortiz, Class of 2008,  teaching an elementary science class.

 

Pre-rotation Recommendations
Prior to arriving in the community, you should take these steps:

In the week before the rotation begins, you should take these steps:

1.  Review this website in its entirety

2.  Contact the practice (practice manager or preceptor) to confirm you are coming and determine the expected arrival time on the first Monday.

3.  Make an effort to communicate with the AHEC representative to schedule a half-day visit during your time in the community.   The AHEC representative may be helpful in helping you identify a community agency which matches your interests and passions to select as the focus for the community agency you are to learn more about  (see below).   Locating your AHEC representative

4.  Contact the course directors by email if you have any questions.  

ACTIVITIES

Clinical Activities with the community preceptor

  • Patient care

  • Negotiate about joining preceptor on hospital rounds, medical staff meetings, civic activities

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  • Submit to the community preceptor at least one clinic note per day
    (i.e. minimum 10 notes for the rotation)    . 
    Expect feedback on some, but not all, of these notes.

  • Learn about the life of your community preceptor and complete Module 1 (see below).

  • Identify one patient encounter significant to your learning and Complete Module 3 (see below)

Healthcare Systems Learning  (Systems-Based Practice): 
Complete Module 2 (see below).  For this activity, it will be important to schedule 1-2 half-days per rotation to work with the practice manager (aka office manager) and nursing staff.

 

Community AGENCIES (see Module 4 below)
Each student is expected to learn about community agencies serving children, youth and/or families. 

  • AHEC.  one half-day per rotation should be spent with an AHEC staff member, learning what is AHEC and about AHEC's community activities.  It is your responsibility to schedule this time.  Go here to identify the AHEC coordinator in your assigned community.

  • WIC.  You will  be expected to learn what is WIC and how is this agency important to a pediatric practice. You may  want to visit a WIC program.

  • One other agency/organization.   You will learn about one other agency/organization which serves children, youth and families in the community in which you are completing your Pedi ACS.  

NOTES:

  • No more than one 1/2 days per week (4 half-days total) can be scheduled  for reading, studying, or completion of assignments; and these must occur at the practice site.

  • Saturday or evening work can be substituted for a weekday, but only for clinical activity or community activity, not for reading-study-module work.

  • Link here for the absence policy.

REQUIRED SUBMISSIONS

  1. Submit to the community preceptor at least one clinic note per day.
     

  2. Submit to both course directors at least six (6) e-mails during the rotation:
     Gayani Silva, MD, gsilva@utmb.edu ; Virginia Niebuhr, PhD, vniebuhr@utmb.edu

  • Week 1 (Friday): 

    • a quick e-mail.  We want to hear from you about

      • tell us something about yourself, and your plans on graduation from medical school

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      • tell us about your first week's experience

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      • have you scheduled time with the AHEC representative and the practice manager?

  • Week 2 (Friday): 

    • a quick e-mail just to let us know what you have been doing.

    • Module 1: Pediatric Practice

  • Week 3 (Friday): two separate emails

  • Week 4 (by 9:00 PM Wednesday):

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site developed 6-04
last update: 8-12-12
contact:  V. Niebuhr. vniebuhr@utmb.edu.