Clinics/Emergency Room
This rotation provides hands-on experience with general and subspecialty pediatric patients in several different outpatient settings: the General Pediatric Clinic, the Continuity Clinic, and the Pediatric Emergency Service. These three settings have a combined total of approximately 30,000 annual visits.
In the General Pediatric Clinic, you will see children for well-child visits and for a variety of general medical problems. Both you and the medical students who assist you will be precepted by general pediatric faculty members. This clinic operates in the Primary Care Center (PCC) on weekdays from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
The half-day, weekly Continuity Clinic gives you the opportunity to follow a group of patients over an extended period of time, much as you will be doing in a regular practice. In particular, it emphasizes
- physical and emotional growth and development
- health promotion/disease prevention
- management of chronic and acute medical conditions
In addition to direct patient care, you will attend and participate in a twenty- to thirty-minute pre-clinic educational conference. The Continuity Clinic is held at one of three locations-the Primary Care Center, the Northridge Pediatric Clinic, or the Orange Pediatric Clinic.
As a pediatric resident, you will join emergency medicine residents in caring for patients in the Pediatric Emergency Service. Pediatric and emergency medicine faculty members provide supervision and emergency medical and surgical care for children and adolescents on a 24-hour basis. Urgent care for non-emergent illnesses is also provided at night and on weekends.
Length of rotation for the Clinics/ER rotation is as follows:
PGY1 Three, one-month clinics, with ER shift every fourth to ninth day
PGY2 One month rotation, with ER shift every fourth to ninth day
PGY3 One month rotation, with ER shift every fourth to ninth day