Education 

The Division of Adolescent Medicine is responsible for providing academic leadership in youth health related educational activities on site. Health care professional trainees from all disciplines receive specialized training. Staff provide workshops, seminars, and lectures to a wide variety of groups on understanding, assessing, and treating adolescents with complex medical conditions.

Specific education activities provided by division members include:

Undergraduate

• Week Captain for the adolescent medicine week in the growth and development block of the undergraduate curriculum in medicine and dentistry at UBC.
• Support to the clinical skills aspects of the curriculum.
• Involvement in the DPAS undergraduate curriculum when it pertains to adolescent health.
• Teaching adolescent medicine to all 3rd year medical students rotating through C&W.

Residency

• Teaching and supervising senior pediatric residents. Elective students are accommodated in the program.
• The Division has eight pediatric residents rotate through each year. The rotation incorporates a mixture of
, ambulatory, and community experiences in addition to providing formal teaching sessions.
• Adolescent Health Pages on the Residents E-Learning Web Site.

Subspecialty Residency Program: the Division has applied for approval for an accredited Sub-specialty residency program to begin July 2010.

Interdisciplinary

• A Youth Health Education Day developed as part of the General Nursing Orientation for the hospital;
• An intranet site has been created on the Pod for Youth Health. This site can be accessed by all staff onsite. The site provides recent articles, clinical and educational tools, key teaching references and policy information. It is anticipated that staff will be able to use the site to reference material and update their information.
• There are internships and PEAK Stream with the focus of Youth Health available for nursing staff at BC Children’s Hospital.

Continuing Professional Education

• Participation in Advances in Pediatrics and Grand Rounds
• Presentations are made locally, provincially, and at national and international meetings.
• Attendance at local, national and international meetings of Adolescent Health Organizations