Child Development is a joint one-month rotation between Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center (BMC). Interns and med-peds PL-2 residents experience a multidisciplinary clinical program providing assessment and follow-up for children from the newborn to adolescent period with developmental, behavioral and/or learning problems. Residents directly observe testing completed by developmental-behavioral pediatricians, psychologists and educational specialists.
Nonclinical experiences in child development provide wonderful adjunct opportunities and more complete appreciation for this important discipline. Residents participate in Early Intervention home encounters, visit the Children's Hospital Childcare Center, and observe in classrooms, including special education settings and an elementary school in the Boston Public School system. Some also attend special education evaluation meetings and special school events. Also, one morning a month, each intern attends the Comprehensive Care Program, a multidisciplinary primary care outpatient clinic for children with complex medical problems, including children with significant developmental delays, mental retardation, seizure disorders, autism, and former premature infants. Didactics at both BMC and CHB augment the clinical experiences of this rotation and includes topics such as developmental screening and surveillance in primary care, special education evaluations and services, mental health screening in primary care, failure to thrive, discipline, the child's experience of grieving and loss, and the child's experience of interpersonal violence.
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