Ambulatory Care Rotation Conferences are a component of the Pediatric Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Pediatric residents rotating on ACR1 (Pediatric Behavior and Development), ACR2 (Career Development) and ACR3 (Adolescent Medicine) meet weekly on Tuesday mornings from 9 am to 12 pm to have small group discussion-style conferences. These conferences are moderated by the ambulatory care attending of the month and are each given by a clinician-teacher. All residents take part in a formal journal club led by Jeanne Van Cleave, MD, during this time as well. The topics covered in these sessions run on a three year cycle so that all residents are exposed to all topics over the course of their three years of residency. The conference topics are listed below.
Year A
- Normal Infancy
- Screening for Developmental Delays
- Feeding Problems
- Normal Early Childhood
- Toilet Training
- PDD
- Normal School Age
- IEPS and Services in Schools
- Discipline and Limit Setting
- Normal Adolescence
- Contraception
- Eating Disorders
Year B
- Normal Infancy
- Sleep Problems
- Parental Adjustment
- Normal Early Childhood
- Expressions of Anger
- Language Development
- Normal School Age
- Conception of Illness
- Bullying
- Normal Adolescence
- STDs
- Depression and Anxiety
Year C
- Normal Infancy
- Stranger Anxiety
- Behavior Modeling
- Normal Early Childhood
- Fears
- What Makes a Family
- Normal School Age
- Attention Problems
- Learning Disabilities
- Normal Adolescence
- Menstrual Problems
- Vaginal D/c
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