Clinical

Academic General Pediatrics has become its own division in the Department of Pediatrics in 2007. However, for more than 20 years, Academic General Pediatrics flourished through the core network of participating community hospitals and clinics:

• University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital
• Fairview Children's Clinic - Minneapolis
• Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
• Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
• Hennepin County Medical Center
• HealthPartners Clinics
• Regions Hospital

Clinical Services

The University-based faculty have responsibility for the:

• Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
  Begun in 1976, the Behavioral Pediatrics program was one of the first such clinical and training programs in the US. It serves as a consultation and referral source for families and physicians locally and throughout the Upper Midwest. It specializes in the evaluation and management of a wide variety of developmental and behavioral concerns, including training in self-hypnosis, relaxation and mental imagery and computerized biofeedback.
  
• The Center for Safe & Healthy Children
  The Center for Safe & Healthy Children at University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview is dedicated to caring for possible victims of child maltreatment and preventing abuse and neglect in children and adolescents.
• University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital
  (University and Riverside campuses) - Inpatient General Pediatrics services & Newborn Nursery
• Kids Into Health Careers
  KIHC is a three-year summer internship for students of color entering 9th, 10th, and 11th grade who are interested in careers in the health care field.
• Community University Health Care Clinic (CUHCC) Academic General Pediatrics
  CUHCC provides full-service primary care to an ethnically diverse, low-income, urban neighborhood population. Opened in 1966, CUHCC has a long history of providing care to underserved and vulnerable patients and families, with a mission of advancing the well-being of people experiencing health disparities. Dental, nursing, nutrition, psychology, social work, legal, and medical providers staff the clinic. Most patients are uninsured or underinsured; 70% are people of color, immigrants or refugees. On-site interpreters work with providers for the multiple cultures and languages of CUHCC patients, including Somali, Hmong, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Cambodian.
• St. Joseph's Home for Children
  St. Joseph's Home for Children cares for children in need by addressing immediate needs for shelter and stability and offering long-term solutions to emotional and behavioral issues.

• Training

  • Primary Care Fellowship in Academic General Pediatrics
  • The academic faculty are responsible for medical student and pediatric resident training and faculty development. They provide oversight of resident rotations, including developmental pediatrics, behavioral and developmental pediatrics, an urban rotation, emergency medicine, and inpatient and ambulatory rotations in affiliated hospitals and clinics.
  
  

  Community Outreach

  • Parents as Teachers
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• Contact Us

  Academic General Pediatrics
  Department of Pediatrics
  University of Minnesota
  717 Delware Street SE, #353
  Minneapolis, MN 55414-2959
  Phone: (612) 626-2820
  TTY: (612) 624-3939
  Fax: (612) 626-2134
  E-mail: drcindy@umn.edu