We are thrilled to have your interest in pursuing a career in adolescent medicine! As a newly created adolescent and young adult medicine fellowship program, our goal is to provide a foundation of exposures to the primary and subspecialty care of adolescents and young adults, while fostering our trainees' unique interests and educational needs. Our faculty are experts in the field with a passion not only for educating the next generation of adolescent medicine specialists, but also as a Harvard Medical School-affiliated institution, we are happy to connect our adolescent medicine fellows to all of the resources needed to pursue careers in clinical expertise, research and scholarly advancement, medical education and innovation, and advocacy and community engagement. Our hope is to provide a solid foundation of clinical experiences in the first year to advance to a "choose your own adventure" to align your advanced years of fellowship training with your individual passions and career goals.
Welcome to Adolescent Medicine! Welcome to Mass General Brigham! Welcome to our Program!
-Dr. Kronish, Dr. Hadland and the faculty of the Mass General Brigham for Children Adolescent & Young Adult Fellowship Program
Our major objectives are that by the end of their fellowship, fellows will:
Develop the clinical expertise and professionalism of experts in adolescent and young adult health with foundational understanding and applications of adolescent development, disease, psychosocial systems, and research
Receive an adult learner-based education in basic science and pathophysiology, clinical application, and expansion of evidence-based research of diverse youth populations
Apply their expertise to expand access to and quality of clinical care of youth, education of multidisciplinary professionals and the public on the unique needs of adolescence and young adulthood, and
Contextualize physical and mental health conditions, including substance use disorders, with a health equity lens, paying special attention to populations who have been marginalized or systemically oppressed