Education

The Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine trains for clinical care, research methods and participatory process, advocacy, effective translation and presentation of data, community-based collaboration and professional leadership. Our training reaches pediatric and medicine-pediatric residents and post-graduate fellows in medicine, nursing, psychology, social work, nutrition and public health, as well as numerous constituencies in the community.

Resident Training

Pediatric and Medicine-Pediatric resident do a four-week Adolescent Medicine rotation during the second or third year of their residency training program. The rotation includes mentored clinical work at community sites and 26 hours of didactic instruction and skills development related to adolescent care. Particular focus is given to clinical communication skills, with adolescent co-teacher participating in interactive skills training.

Interdisciplinary Fellowship Training

The Division is home to an Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program that brings together a cadre of fellows who lend their disciplinary perspective to the intensive shared fellowship experience. Several funding sources support the program and also provide a range of fellowship focus options.  Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Program (LEAH) is on of seven LEAH programs funded nationwide by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of Health and Human Services. UMN-LEAH provides interdisciplinary training to prepare professionals from the disciplines of Medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Social Work, and Nutrition for leadership roles in their respective disciplines. Other collaborating partners are the Health Youth Development Prevention Research Center, Physician Faculty Development in Primary Care (housed in the Division of Academic General Pediatrics), Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics (also housed in the Division of Academic General Pediatrics), and Adolescent Health Protection Research Training (housed in the School of Nursing). For further information, or to apply to any of the collaborating programs in the Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program, please contact Deb Seyfer, Fellowship Coordinator, at 612-626-2953 or dappe001@umn.edu.

• Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Programs
  
  Healthy Youth Development • Prevention Research Center Fellowship
  
  

  Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Programs 

  The MCHB Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Programs are unique. They provide interdisciplinary leadership training, faculty development, continuing education, scholarship, technical assistance and collaboration with MCH programs, Title V Programs in state departments of public health, State Adolescent Health Coordinators, policymakers and professional organizations concerned with the health of adolescents. Leadership training produces the manpower for the next generation of leaders who will influence and train clinicians, public policy and public health experts, investigators and educators. All of these individuals will move the field forward by improving clinical services, program development and research/evaluation.

  The seven currently funded programs have a long history of commitment to training in adolescent health. Two of the existing programs (Cincinnati and University of California, San Francisco) were among the first cohort of interdisciplinary programs funded in 1977. One Program (Minnesota) was initially funded in 1978. Children's Hospital at Harvard (one of the first physician-only programs funded by MCHB in the 1960's) and Indiana were initially funded in 1992. Based on their demonstrated excellence in leadership training, Baylor and Rochester joined the cohort of currently funded programs in 1997.

  For More Information Please Contact:

  Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine
  Department of Pediatrics
  University of Minnesota
  717 Delaware Street SE, #353
  Minneapolis, MN 55414-2959
  Phone: (612) 626-2820
  Fax: (612) 626-2134
  E-mail: ahp@umn.edu

  LEAH Fellowship Application Materials
  

  
  Healthy Youth Development • Prevention Research Center Program Fellowship  

  Application for the Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center Fellowship

  For More Information Please Contact:
  
  Michael Resnick, PhD, Director
  Phone: (612) 624-9111
  E-mail: resni001@umn.edu

   

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