Mentoring and Clinical Care

Mentoring and Clinical Care

Mentoring. We design the fellowship experience to meet individual fellow goals, including building mentorship teams to support fellows in gaining the content, methodologic, clinical, educational, and career mentoring needed to launch the next phase of their career. Mentorship teams are built from General Academic Pediatrics faculty and the Department of Pediatrics faculty as well as faculty from other departments in the School of Medicine and from the thriving research community across the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences (Public Health, Pharmacy, Dental, Nursing, Medicine, Rehabilitation Sciences) and beyond. We also strive to identify a community mentor for each fellow. Fellows meet with the Program leadership regularly during the first months of fellowship to identify potential mentors to fill roles as career mentors, research/project mentors, community mentors, and clinical mentors. Fellows also participate in the ICRE Mentoring Matters workshop during hte summer of their first year.

Clinical Care. MD/DO and other clinician fellows join the clinical and educational efforts of the General Academic Pediatrics Division. Multiple clinical settings are available including primary care at two academic practices, newborn care at Magee Women's Hospital, care for children with medical complexity at the Complex Care Center, care for children with psychosocial complexity at the Whole Child Wellness Center, and linguistically and culturally competent care for Latinx patients through Salud Para Niños.