Education
- Resident Education
- Fellowships
- Medical Students
The UC San Diego Academic General Pediatric Kearny Mesa/Frost St. and La Jolla clinics serve as the main outpatient training site for first and second-year UC San Diego pediatric residents. All trainees have the opportunity to work with multiple faculty pediatricians to learn evidence-based approaches for the management of common and uncommon pediatric conditions in a diverse patient population. Second-year residents assume additional responsibilities including learning how to provide effective phone triage and supervising/educating medical students. Additional educational components include daily small-group teaching seminars and weekly journal clubs.
The clinics also are the primary training sites for continuity clinic where residents can develop a longitudinal relationship with patients, families, and a faculty mentor. There is a strong commitment to continued learning with a structured weekly educational curriculum.
Residents may also elect to work in the UCSD AGP Special Needs Clinic, based at the Kearny Mesa/Frost St. site, to learn evidence-based approaches to providing care for children with complex medical needs; also housed at the Kearny Mesa/Frost St. site are Travel Medicine clinic visits and residents can elect to work with faculty who specialize in these visits, as well as clinics at UC San Diego Health specializing in caring for infants affected by HIV.
UCSD Academic General Pediatrics also partners with the federally qualified health center, Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD), and has faculty staffing their City Heights and El Cajon locations to provided evidence- based medical student, resident and fellow teaching, training, and clinical care for pediatric refugee, immigrant and migrant populations. They provide multi-disciplinary teaching for pediatric, medicine-pediatric, and FHCSD family medicine residents.
Academic General Pediatrics faculty also serve as mentors for resident academic projects (RAP).
First-year residents spend two to four weeks on our service caring for term and late preterm newborns. They work with a multidisciplinary team including attending pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, lactation consultants, social workers, occupational therapists, and nurses to learn how to manage common and uncommon newborn conditions. In addition to learning from direct patient care, other educational components include teaching modules and daily didactic instruction. Yearly, the newborn hospitalists, in conjunction with the UCSD Division of Neonatology, run a half -day seminar for the first year pediatric and medicine/pediatric residents. Newborn hospitalists also serve as mentors for resident academic projects (RAP).
Residents may also choose to do a newborn or breastfeeding elective in their second or third year of residency. The breastfeeding medicine elective crosses over between work with faculty in the UCSD Section of Academic Newborn Medicine at UC San Diego Health/Jacobs Medical Center, the UCSD Academic General Pediatrics Frost St and/or La Jolla site and the UC Health Milk Bank, and can include work in federally qualified health centers.