Resident Education

GOAL
To gain experience in the medical care of internationally adopted children

ELIGIBLE
PL 1 – 3, MP 1 – 4; available to any University of Minnesota medical resident, or by special arrangement for any non-U of MN medical resident

# OF RESIDENTS/MONTH
1-2

SITES
Pediatric Specialty Clinic (Wed, Fri)
Clinic 4A, Phillips-Wangansteen Building
516 Delaware St SE
Minneapolis, MN  55455

Pediatric South Specialty Clinic (Tues)
305 Nicollet Boulevard, Suite 372
Burnsville, MN  55337

St. Joseph’s Home For Children (Tues)
1121 E 46^th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55407

SUPERVISING FACULTY
Cindy Howard, M.D. (Director)
Dana Johnson, M.D., Ph.D.
Judith Eckerle Kang, M.D.
Mary Chesney, M.S., R.N., C.P.N.P.
Pi-Nian Chang, Ph.D.
Maria Kroupina, Ph.D.
Megan Bresnahan, O.T.R.
St. Joseph’s Home for Children

CONTACT
Ann Fandrey, 612-626-2884 tel; 612-625-2920 fax; fandr002@umn.edu

STRUCTURE
Clinic is three mornings per week, one day at Ridges in Burnsville and two days at Peds Specialty Clinic in Minneapolis, three to four patients per clinic.

There are five didactics: international adoption medicine overview, cognitive @ social-emotional development, physical development, failed adoptions and fetal alcohol spectrum issues.

There is built-in time for completion of required readings, and the remainder of the time is spent either in clinic or reviewing preadoption medical histories for families who use our preadoption medical review service.

REQUIRED READING
Please review the general information on our website and, in particular, literature resources written by our staff, prior to your first day with us: www.peds.umn.edu/iac

The basic text for required readings is Pediatric Clinics of North America; International Adoption: Medical and Develomental Issues; Oct 2005, Vol 52, No 5 (ISBN 1-4160-2751-3).  You may borrow a copy of this text for the duration of the elective.

In addition, we will provide copies of the following:
Gunnar, M. R. (2001). Effects of early deprivation. Findings from orphanage-reared infants and children. In C. A. Nelson and M. Luciana (Eds.) Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience (pp. 617-629). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Engle PL, Black MM, Behrman JR. Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world. 2007 Lancet 369:229-42

Walker SP, Wachs TD, Meeks Gardner J. Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries. 2007 Lancet 369:145-57

Grantham-McGregor S, Cheung Y B, Cueto S. Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries. 2007 Lancet 369:60-70.

Hoyme HE, May PA. A practical clinical approach to diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: clarification of the 1996 institute of medicine criteria. Pediatrics. 2005 Jan;115(1):39-47.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Guidelines for Referral and Diagnosis  http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/fas/documents/FAS_guidelines_accessible.pdf

View the entire Elective Compendium here.