PEDI 709K Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics

Credits: 4
This elective exposes the student to a broad range of patients with developmental disabilities including those with physical, behavioral, cognitive, language, and emotional disorders from infancy to 18 years of age. The elective is open to second, third, and fourth year students at OHSU, visiting fourth year students, and students interested in our Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Residency training program. The student will participate in a number of clinics including Neurodevelopmental, Spina Bifida, Neonatal Follow Up, Autism, Child Development, Feeding, and Down Syndrome as well as others. Clinics are composed of interdisciplinary teams including developmental pediatrics, physical therapy, occupation therapy, speech language pathology, audiology, social work, and others. This provides the student with a great opportunity to appreciate and learn from other disciplines essential to the care of children with developmental disabilities. Clinic assignments may be adjusted to the student’s interests to some degree. This is exclusively an outpatient rotation and there is no night call or weekend duty. A similar clinical experience is available at the CDRC facility in Eugene.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit