Our Mission:
The Massachusetts General Brigham for Children Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Fellowship aims to train adolescent medicine fellows in the clinical care, research, advocacy, and education skills necessary for the healthcare of adolescents and young adults in primary and subspecialty care. The overall goal is to expose fellows to broad clinical experiences, emphasizing outpatient clinical training in multiple settings where the practice of adolescent medicine may occur as a primary care provider and/or consultant.
Outpatient Continuity Care
The Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Mass General Brigham for Children provides primary care and consultative care to adolescents and young adults from age 12 years through their twenties. Patients may come to the Division for primary care or be referred for complex medical or psychosocial problems.
Consultative care is provided to patients for problems including eating disorders, substance use, depression, gynecologic concerns, contraception, and oral isotretinoin.
Fellows will spend between 2 to 6 half-day sessions in the Adolescent Medicine clinic at Mass General Brigham for Children in the West End of Boston, MA. They will carry their own patient panel for the experience of being a longitudinal primary and subspecialty care provider.
Inpatient Consultative Care
Fellows will work with the adolescent medicine faculty as inpatient consultants throughout fellowship: approximately 1 week every 4 weeks as a first year fellow, every 6 weeks as a second year fellow, and every 8 weeks as a third year fellow
Fellows will be first call for inpatient consults related to nutritional deficiency, adolescent substance use and other inpatient adolescent medicine questions with supervision and oversight
Our Division consults at Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston and Newton Wellesley Hospital in Newton, MA.
1st Year Rotations
Eating Disorders and Nutrition (3 months)
Mental Health and Addiction (3 months)
Sexual and Gender Identity (3 months)
Reproductive Health (1 month)
Sports Medicine (1 month)
Elective (1 month)
2nd/3rd Year Rotations
Reproductive Health & Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (3 months)
Special Populations and Settings (3 months)
Electives (6 month)
Fellows will be learn research methods to conduct in ethical manner with proper study design and develop their own scholarly work throughout their fellowship training.
The research curriculum for the first year of fellowship consists of understanding research processes related to background review of the literature, recruitment, consenting and assessment of research subjects. The second and third years will be dedicated to fellows carrying out their research project, including data collection and analysis, results interpretation, manuscript preparation and dissemination.
Our faculty have a wide array of research interests and ongoing projects that fellows may choose to contribute to, including:
substance use disorder management in pediatric primary care settings
abnormal uterine bleeding treatment
medical education
sexually transmitted infection prevention and treatment
eating disorder treatment modalities
and more!