Medical Student Education
The primary aim of the teaching program of the Department of Pediatrics is
to stimulate interest in developmental biology, especially human growth and
development, and to provide the student with a foundation sufficiently
comprehensive so that he or she will have an appreciation of clinical
pediatric problems regardless of his or her future career choice in
medicine.
The major clinical and research facilities are in St. Louis Children's
Hospital and the newborn services are at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. St. Louis
Children's Hospital is a facility with 235 beds that accepts patients
through 21 years of age with all types of medical and surgical problems.
Hospital admissions average 11,000 annually. Pediatric medical ambulatory
activity, including subspecialty and emergency visits, averages about
90,000 visits a year. Nearly 5,000 infants are born annually in the
Medical Center.
First Year
Second Year
Students are introduced to pediatrics and to the faculty through a series
of lectures and symposia designed to acquaint them with the concepts of
human growth and development and the effects of age and maturity on
reactions to injury and disease. The unique aspects of the physical
examination of the infant and child are presented in the Introduction to
Clinical Medicine course. Members of the faculty are active participants
in the second-year Pathophysiology course.
Third Year
Fourth Year
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