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VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: This clerkship offers an individualized tutorial experience in the diagnosis, care, and clinical investigation of children with hematologic diseases. It is designed as an ambulatory rotation with an emphasis on pediatric hematology. Clinical activities include participation in the hematology clinic, and inpatient hematology consultations. Teaching activities include small group discussions of clinical problems, instruction on reading peripheral blood smears and bone marrow aspirates, as well as participation in the regularly scheduled hematology and oncology conferences. Students are expected to prepare a 45 minute presentation on a topic of their choosing at one of these conferences. The workload permits time for independent reading and the learning of special hematologic techniques. This clerkship requires pre-approval for all students. Stanford students must obtain approval from the clerkship director prior to enrolling. Please contact the clerkship coordinator. Visiting students should submit a request for Departmental pre-approval, which will be routed to the clerkship staff. Please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Pediatrics 300A. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full-time for 4 weeks, 1 student per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Clara Lo, M.D. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Gretchen Shawver, 650-723-5535, gshawver@stanford.edu. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: 750 Welch Road Suite 220; Time: 9:00 am. CALL CODE: 0. OTHER FACULTY: C. Aftandilian, G. Dahl, K. Davis, M. Chien, M. Gilbert, B. Glader, M. Jeng, S. Kreimer, N. Lacayo, M. Link, C. Lo, A. Narla, A. Pribnow, L. Schultz. LOCATION: LPCH.

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Offers inpatient and outpatient experience in the management of a variety of acute and chronic diseases of the kidney, including patients recieving acute or chronic dialysis and renal transplant. Additional exposure is gained through consultations on pediatric patients with renal, hypertensive, and complex fluid and electrolyte complications of other diseases. Emphasis is on teaching clinical-pathological correlations and pathophysiology as they relate to the diagnosis and treatment of renal disease. Also emphasized are problems experienced by patients and their parents in adjusting to chronic renal disease. This clerkship requires pre-approval for all students. Stanford students must obtain approval from the clerkship director prior to enrolling. Please contact the clerkship coordinator. Visiting students should submit a request for Departmental pre-approval, which will be routed to the clerkship staff. Please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Pediatrics 300A. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full-time for 2 weeks or 4 weeks, 1 student per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Olivera Marsenic Couloures, M.D. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Kim Sands, 650-723-7903, G306. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: Center for Academic Medicine-Pediatric Nephrology, 453 Quarry Road; Time: 9:00 am. CALL CODE: 0. OTHER FACULTY: S. Alexander, A. Chandhuri, O.M. Couloures, P. Grimm, S. Kibrom, M. Leonard, R. Patel, D. Potter, K. Sutha, S. Sutherland, E. Talley, C. Wong. LOCATION: LPCH.

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Provides visitors with inpatient, procedural, and extensive outpatient experience in the management of various acute and chronic diseases of the intestinal tract or liver including the importance of nutritional intervention. The Pediatric GI Service works closely with many other specialties including Pediatric Radiology, Pediatric Surgery, General Pediatrics and Hospitalists, Nutritionists, Social Workers and Pharmacists. Daily inpatient rounds take place with the attending, fellow, and pediatric housestaff. Clinical didactics and conferences are held weekly including monthly joint conferences between various services: Pediatric GI, Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Radiology and Pathology. There are opportunities to observe various procedures including endoscopy, advanced and complex GI procedures, and motility studies. Clinics are held ten half-days per week. Students evaluate patients in clinic where they will spend the majority of their time working directly with clinic attendings. Students also see new inpatient consults under the direct supervision of the attending and fellow. This clerkship requires pre-approval for all students. Stanford students must obtain approval from the clerkship director prior to enrolling. Please contact the clerkship coordinator. Visiting students should submit a request for Departmental pre-approval, which will be routed to the clerkship staff. Please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Pediatrics 300A and prior email consent from Dr. Mostamand. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 2-4, 6-12, full-time for 4 weeks, 1 student per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Shikib Mostamand, M.D. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Alma Gama, acgama@stanford.edu, 650-725-9813, 750 Welch Road, Suite 116. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: 750 Welch Rd., Suite 116; Time: 8:00 AM on first day of clerkship (almost always will be a Monday). CALL CODE: 0. OTHER FACULTY: M. Abu El Haija, L. Alrabadi, D. Bass, R. Bensen, W. Berquist, Y. Cagil, R. Colman, P. Dike, N. Ebel, A. Goyal, R. Gugig, S. Husain, H. Jericho, S. Khan, N. Khavari, J. Moses, S. Namjoshi, A. Narang, M. Rosen, S. Shah, A. Yeh, K. Zhang. LOCATION: LPCH.

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: Students gain clinical experience working with patients with infectious diseases, including newborns, children, adolescents, and pediatric patients with underlying malignancies, immunological deficiencies, organ transplants, chronic illness and orthopedic problems. Clinical rounds are held daily and outpatient clinic is held once a week. General principles applicable to the management of infections in all age groups are emphasized, as well as basic ID-specific laboratory results such as cultures, antibiotics, susceptibility data and diagnostic studies. In addition, students participate in a variety of weekly didactic sessions, clinical conferences and laboratory rounds. Students also should attend the Pediatric Residency Program's Morning Report, Noon Didactics and Grand Rounds as the schedule allows. Opportunities exist to explore interests in antimicrobial stewardship, infection control and prevention, as well as other facets of being a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist. This clerkship requires pre-approval for all students. Stanford students must obtain approval from the clerkship director prior to enrolling. Please contact the clerkship coordinator. Visiting students should submit a request for Departmental pre-approval, which will be routed to the clerkship staff. Please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Pediatrics 300A and Medicine 300A. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full-time for 4 weeks, 1 student per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: David Vu, M.D., davidvu@stanford.edu. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Kim Vo, 650-736-2005, ktvo@stanford.edu. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: Stanford University Hospital, Peds ID Division Offices, Room G312. Contact Dr. Vu at davidvu@stanford.edu prior to start date; Time: 8:30 am. CALL CODE: 0 (no call or rounding on weekends). OTHER FACULTY: M. Amieva, S. Chen, D. Contopoulos-Ioannidis, E. Egan, D. LaBeaud, G. Lee, R. Mathew, S. Nadimpalli, H. Schwenk, N. Srinivas, D. Vu. LOCATION: LPCH.

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Medical students in their third or fourth clinical year are offered the opportunity to enrich their pediatric training in the 40-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) located on the 2nd floor of LPCH. The NICU offers an intensive experience in the management of premature and sick term neonates admitted from the delivery room, community physicians' offices, and an active referral service that draws from throughout Northern and mid-coastal California. The rotation emphasizes delivery room attendance and newborn resuscitation skills, daily management of common newborn problems, and the special follow-up needs of NICU graduates. Exposure to advanced therapies including mechanical ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, nitric oxide therapy, and hypothermia occurs routinely. An active maternal-fetal medicine service, pediatric surgery, and various pediatric subspecialty services support the NICU. Students work under direct supervision of housestaff, nurse practitioners, fellows and faculty, and assume gradual responsibility for patient care as dictated by performance as the rotation progresses. This clerkship requires pre-approval for all students. Stanford students must obtain approval from Weichen Ling prior to registering for this clerkship. Please email requests to wvling@stanford.edu. Visiting students should submit a request for Departmental pre-approval, which will be routed to the clerkship staff. Please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Peds 300A and Anesthesia 306A/P. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full-time for 4 weeks, 1 student per period. NOTE: enrollment is coordinated with Anes 306P. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Christine Johnson, M.D., clcjohns@stanford.edu. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Asia Wesley, awesley@stanford.edu. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: Intensive Care Nursery (Attending Physician or on-service Fellow); Time: 7:30 AM. CALL CODE: 4 - Call is every 4th night until 11pm, no overnight call. OTHER FACULTY: LPCH NICU faculty. LOCATION: LPCH.

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a busy 36-bed academic unit that teaches students to recognize and care for critically ill children. The patients are comprised of medical, surgical, and trauma patients both from within LPCH or are referred from other hospitals throughout Northern California. The medical admissions cover a broad range of disease processes ranging from respiratory failure, to shock, to multi-system organ dysfunction. Surgical patients represent diverse pathologies and vary from solid organ transplants to various types of neurosurgical procedures to multiple other general and sub-specialty procedures. Students will learn the pathophysiology of critical illness in children, understand the many monitoring devices used in the ICU, and become familiar with the various treatment modalities available for organ failure ranging from mechanical ventilation to ECMO. The basic differences in both pathophysiology and management of critically ill children as compared to adults should also become apparent. Students are expected to function at the level of a Sub-Intern on this rotation and fulfill manager-level learning objectives. This clerkship requires pre-approval for all students. Stanford students must obtain approval from Bernadette Carvalho prior to registering for this clerkship. Please email requests to berniec@stanford.edu. Visiting students should submit a request for Departmental pre-approval, which will be routed to the clerkship staff. Please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Peds 300A, Anes 306A or Anes 306P. Visiting students should complete a pediatric core clerkship. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full time for 4 weeks, 1 student per period. Note: enrollment is coordinated with Anes 306P and capped at no more than 2 students in the PICU per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Saraswati Kache, M.D., 650-723-7453, skache@stanford.edu. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Bernadette F. Carvalho, berniec@stanford.edu. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: If assigned to Team-A, report to on service Attending physician/PICU fellow in PICU, LPCH Main 420 Team room, 4th floor; If assigned to Team-B, report to on service Attending physician/PICU fellow in PICU, LPCH Main 320 Team room, 3rd floor; Time: 7:30 AM. CALL CODE: 2 (Students will be expected to take weeknight and weekend call shifts during the 4 week rotation. Students will stay until 10 pm and are not expected to stay overnight). OTHER FACULTY: Stanford PICU faculty. LOCATION: LPCH.

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 1. DESCRIPTION: This elective focuses on the health of adolescents and young adults. Weekly teaching conferences by faculty supplement the elective. The 2-week elective will focus exclusively on inpatient eating disorder at Stanford Children?s satellite unit at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA. This is an excellent opportunity to participate in a multi-disciplinary, nationally recognized inpatient program for the care of adolescents with eating disorders. If the inpatient census is low, the student might be sent to participate in the eating disorder clinic outpatient (Sunnyvale, CA) and/or in the inpatient consult service on the main campus (Palo Alto, CA). The 4-week elective will expand the experience to include other areas of adolescent and young adult health outside of the eating disorder psychopathology. This 4-week rotation occurs across several outpatient clinics located at different sites across the South Bay, so access to transportation, ideally with a car, is highly recommended. Upon request in advance, the 4-week rotation can also available a sub-internship ("sub-i"), with an assigned clinical mentor and responsibilities and expectations similar to those of pediatric interns. This clerkship requires pre-approval for all students. Stanford students must obtain approval from the clerkship director prior to enrolling. Please contact the clerkship coordinator. Visiting students should submit a request for Departmental pre-approval, which will be routed to the clerkship staff. Please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Pediatrics 300A. Visiting students are required to obtain pre-approval from the department. Please email requests to Dr. Elizabeth Stuart at aestuart@stanford.edu. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 4-8 and 12, full time for 2 weeks or 4 weeks, 1 student per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Jonathan Avila, M.D. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Ana Valdez-Fraser (408-427-1318). REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: Review schedule sent via e-mail by coordinator prior to clerkship; Time: TBA. CALL CODE: 0. OTHER FACULTY: A. Anoshiravani, J. Avila, J. Carlson, B. Criss, N. Golden, R. Goldstein, A. Guzman, C. Kapphahn, M. Vo. LOCATION: Various (see description above).

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: This subinternship is designed to build upon the fundamental skills in hematology and oncology learned in Peds 305A, and to provide an intensive inpatient experience on the Hematology/Oncology unit at LPCH. Students act as primary caretakers for their patients, with instruction and supervision from the pediatric residents, hematology/oncology fellow, and hematology/oncology attending. Clinical activities include working up new patients, daily rounds and patient care, writing daily progress notes, writing orders, taking night call, and performing procedures, which may include bone marrow aspiriation and lumbar puncture. Students function as part of the ward team which is comprised of junior residents, fellow, and attending. Teaching activities include bedside teaching, small group discussions of clinical problems, instruction on reading peripheral blood smears and bone marrow aspirates, as well as participation in the regularly scheduled hematology and oncology conferences. Curriculum goals are to strengthen basic medical skills and to learn to manage complex, acutely ill patients with multiple medical problems, as well as to learn common diagnostic presentations of pediatric malignancies and the fundamentals of treating these diseases. This clerkship requires pre-approval for all students. Stanford students must obtain approval from the clerkship director prior to enrolling. Please contact the clerkship coordinator. Visiting students should submit a request for Departmental pre-approval, which will be routed to the clerkship staff. Please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Pediatrics 300A. Pediatrics 305A highly recommended. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full time for 4 weeks, 1 student per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Catherine Aftandilian, M.D., aftandil@stanford.edu. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Gretchen Shawver, 650-724-7164, gshawver@stanford.edu. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: 5th floor LPCH, Heme/Onc inpatient ward. Contact Gretchen Shawver/Dr. Catherine Aftandilian two weeks prior to start date to confirm and get further instructions; Time: 8:30 am. CALL CODE: 2. OTHER FACULTY: C. Aftandilian, J. Andrews, G. Dahl, K. Davis, M. Jeng, N. Lacayo, M. Link, C. Lo, R. Majzner, A. Narla, A. Pribrow, K. Sakamoto, S. Spunt. LOCATION: LPCH.

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: This sub-internship will introduce to the experienced student the challenges of community pediatric hospital medicine in a resource-limited community. Patients in this hospital are primarily Spanish-speaking. Medical interpretation is available. Sub-interns work directly with attendings caring for well newborns, infants in a Level 2 NICU, hospitalized children, and consults on children in the ER. Significant autonomy will be provided to students demonstrating capacity. Watsonville Community Hospital is in Santa Cruz County. Weekends are duty-free. This clerkship requires pre-approval for all students. Stanford students must obtain approval from the clerkship director prior to enrolling. Please contact the clerkship coordinator. Visiting students should submit a request for Departmental pre-approval, which will be routed to the clerkship staff. Please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Pediatrics 300A. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full-time for 2 weeks or 4 weeks, 1 student per period. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Andrew Harkins, M.D., Andrew.Harkins@stanford.edu. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Contact director. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: Watsonville Community Hospital Main Lobby, 75 Nielson Street, Watsonville, CA 95076; Time: 7:00 am. CALL CODE: 2 (student preference, up to one night per week in-hospital if interested, otherwise M-F). OTHER FACULTY: O. Dogan, M. Hasan, T. Kironde, N. McNamara, S. Patel, C. Powell, S. Punjabi. LOCATION: Watsonville Community Hospital.