Pediatrics

Diary of a Fourth-Year Student: Pediatric Rehabilitation in Oakland, Calif.

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Written by Kathryn Schlosser ’15
I am not a pediatrician. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against pediatricians. Some of my best friends are pediatricians. I love kids and I do fine on pediatric rotations. But by week two of the pediatric rehabilitation elective at Children’s Hospital of Oakland, I missed the straightforwardness of a surgical elective, when someone would hand me a retractor and tell me to hold still. The extensive conversations about our pediatric patients – what they felt, why they felt it, and how they expressed their suffering – at first seemed irrelevant to the pressing medical issues at hand. But as I began to contribute knowledge of my own patients to these conversations, I grew to embrace this explicit discussion of my patients’ emotional needs as essential to their recovery, and found myself applying this awareness to adults.

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What is the “Mind?” Treatment of Psychiatric & Physical Illness in Children

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Written by George “Bud” Vana ’14
The Hasbro Partial Hospitalization Program is a medical-psychiatric program for children and adolescents. Patients there need to have both a chronic medical issue with a diagnosis as well as a psychiatric problem which could benefit from a temporary stay at this integrated program. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect; I didn’t know how the discussions of patients’ multifaceted treatment might go, and I did not know who exactly these patients might be. But many of the patterns in patients who came to the partial hospitalization program made sense.

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Match Day 2014: Applying to the Triple Board

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Written by George “Bud” Vana ’14
I applied to a weird residency. It is not so much that I am going to be performing strange medical procedures; it’s just that I generally have to take a few moments to explain what my residency program plans mean. I applied to something called the ‘Triple Board,’ as well as combined adult-child psychiatry residency programs.

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