Adolescent Medicine Fellowship

The length of training is three years and we have funding to accept one fellow per year. Fellows work closely with faculty in both inpatient and outpatient clinical settings. Our home base is the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital where our inpatient consult service and multiple outpatient clinical programs are located. Our administrative offices are right across the street from the hospital. Fellows also join us out in the community at the Corner Health Center in Ypsilanti, in the network of school-based health centers through the Regional Alliance for Healthy Schools, and in the college health clinic. 

Fellows meet regularly with our fellowship program research training directors starting in the first year of fellowship to assist in connecting to research mentors and making strides in scholarly learning and projects. Research mentors may be through our division, department or other schools such as Public Health and Nutritional Sciences within the university.

Every week we have protected time for our fellow education series including journal clubs, case conferences, adolescent medicine topic lectures including the David S. Rosen, MD, MPH Lectureship, research meetings, and board review sessions. Fellows also participate in a monthly pediatric department-wide fellow curriculum, monthly division Quality Improvement/Patient Safety training and working group, and weekly board topic focused didactic sessions with other adolescent medicine fellows across the country. The ratio of research/clinical training time increases from the first through the third year of training. Depending on fellow areas of interest and career goals, there is an opportunity in second and third years of training to participate in focused scholars’ programs.

Our Team

Our division team includes our Adolescent Medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, Pediatric Sports Medicine physicians, fellows, social workers, dietician, registered nurses, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, psychologists, our program coordinator, and division administrative assistant. We have close training and clinical ties to Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology, Pediatric Endocrinology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Health Service, the Athletics Department, the Adolescent Health Initiative, and our Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program team.

Fellows gain clinical experience in a variety of outpatient settings, including: 

• Adolescent/Young Adult Specialty Clinic
• Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology clinic
• The Regional Alliance for Healthy Schools, a network of school-based health centers
• The Corner Health Center, a community health center for adolescents and young adults in Ypsilanti
• The Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program
• Sports Medicine
• Addiction Treatment Services
• University Health & Counseling

We also have a busy Adolescent Medicine Consult service at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, and fellows are on-service for 1 week per month on average, along with one of the Adolescent Medicine attending physicians. During on-service weeks, fellows and faculty also take call from home in the evenings and on the weekends to help with questions coming in about in-hospital patients, our clinic patients, and from providers across the state who have concerns about adolescents. Interested fellows can also do rotations on the Child & Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Unit or on the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Consult Service.

We provide fellows with research training and mentorship to complete one or more scholarly projects during the course of their fellowship training and to prepare fellows to engage in research throughout their careers.

Fellows engage in monthly research training sessions with our program research directors, Dr. Terry Bravender and Dr. Shelby Ortiz, and have access to diverse resources like the Child Health Evaluation and Research Center (CHEAR) and the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR).