Curriculum
Social Pediatrics Rounds & Tuesday Curriculum
This core conference and curriculum is held weekly, providing social pediatrics residents advocacy training based on monthly themes such as:
| Housing Insecurity | Special Populations | Child Welfare |
| Education | Health Literacy | Mental Health |
| Global Health | Community Advocacy | Linguistic & Cultural Competency |
| Health Policy | Complementary & Alternative Medicine | Legislative Advocacy & Community Collaboration |
| Juvenile Justice | Research Design | Child & Family in Crisis |
Components of Tuesday afternoon curriculum also include home visits, a biopsychosocial case conference, housing and family court visits, community outreach, research presentations, journal club, policy rounds and board review. Residents also participate in several advocacy/lobby days in Albany and Washington DC.
There are also weekly Thursday Continuity Clinic conferences at CHCC as well as bi-monthly Social Work Rounds and EBM rounds.
School Health Program
Social Pediatric residents also participate in a continuity clinic at a Montefiore Medical Center School-Based Health Center, one of the largest school-based health systems in the country.
Other Clinical Experiences
Social Pediatric residents do clinical activities with the Bronx Health Collective’s Health Project, a Montefiore program that utilizes mobile medical vans to provide health care to children and families in various shelters in New York city.
Behavioral Health Focus
Residents work closely with a clinical child psychologist who co-precepts in clinic twice a week. There are also monthly didactic sessions with a bio-psychosocial focus. The clinical training site for the Social Pediatrics program, CHCC, has a comprehensive behavioral health team composed of social workers, clinical psychologists and a child psychiatrist.