Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

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Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Chairperson	Abboud, Miguel
Professors	Abboud, Miguel; Badr, Lina (Adjunct); Bitar, Fadi; Boustany, Rose-Mary; Bulbul, Ziad; Charafeddine, Lama; Dbaibo, Ghassan; Majdalani, Marianne; Mikati, Mohamad (Adjunct); Mroueh, Salman; Muwakkit, Samar; Nabulsi-Khalil, Mona; Sanjad, Sami (Adjunct); Yunis, Khalid
Associate Professors	Aoun, Bilal (Adjunct); Arabi, Mariam; Assi, Jana (Adjunct); Hanna- Wakim, Rima; Karam, Pascale; Musallam, Salim (Clinical); Sinno, Durriyah; Tfayli, Hala; Yazbeck, Nadine
Assistant Professors	Al Ojaimi, Mode; Bechara, Elie; Charafeddine, Fatme; El Taoum, Katia; Haddad, Laith; Ismail, Ali; Maalouf Faouzi; Moukhaiber, Jihane; Munla, Nabil (Clinical)
Instructors	Abou Daher, Ghadi; Anka, Carine; Borghol, Rafah; Habanjar, Dima; Karam, Maria; Khalifeh, Simone; Noun, Dolly; Romani, Diala; Youssef, Nour
Clinical Associates	Abdelnabi, Reem; Al Ali, Razan; Al Araj, Alia; Badr, Dana; Khafaja, Sarah; Nasrallah, Mona; Shamseddine, Fadi; Tannoury, Theresia; Yazbek, Soha; Mroueh, Karim

The Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine offers clerkships to medical students. The clerkships concentrate on those aspects of children and adolescent healthcare that are important to any physician, including the management of healthy and sick children; peculiarities of disease in infancy, childhood, and adolescence; and nutrition growth and development. These clerkships also concentrate on the importance of combining preventive with curative medicine. Graduate training is offered to physicians leading to specialization (residency) in pediatrics over a three-year period.

Course Descriptions

Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Courses

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Ward rounds and case discussions (daily), journal club, pediatric grand rounds, morbidity and mortality conference, and specialty conferences and journal clubs (adolescent medicine morbidity review, hematology/oncology, neonatology, infectious diseases, critical care, and pediatric cardiology) (weekly), core curriculum lectures and guidelines sessions (three times per week) , Med 3 and Med 4 clerkship lectures (daily).

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