Home  > Clinical Sections & Programs  > General Pediatrics  > Developmental Behaviorial Pediatrics: Education  > DBP Rotation

Developmental Behaviorial Pediatrics

Welcome to the Rotation in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics

This rotation is an opportunity to expand your understanding of developmental-behavioral and psychosocial issues, particularly those that impact on your professional interests. We aim to combine a traditional approach to training with more learner-centered models of education so that your experience exposes you to the basics of child development and also addresses your individualized interests.

Core activities include:

• Hands on clinical experiences
• Targeted observation activities
• Community experiences
• Didactics
• Developmental Behavioral Peds seminar
• Mentored learning experiences
• Case-based learning
• Independent learning activities

Your schedule and directions to all activities is posted on the web. If you cannot make any of the scheduled activities please call the site you are scheduled for to let them know. If the schedule is incorrect, please alert Annmarie Healy at 785-3898.

We have developed a bibliography of important Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics articles for your library. Before you meet with Dr. Avni-Singer, please read Chapters 2 and 3 from Encounters with Children. This can be found under the "Family Communications" heading on the Reading Articles page. The articles you will need to read to prepare for and to execute the germ talk are under the heading "Germ Talk", also on the Reading Articles page.

Listed below are descriptions of modules that require some planning on your part for them to be successful and interesting. Please read these sections carefully.

Resident DBP clinic

Resident DBP clinic will happen once on a Tuesday morning during your rotation. In advance of this session, you need to find a patient with behavioral concerns and arrange to bring in the parent, the child or both for an interview in the developmental room within the PCC. (First, make sure you will be present during the session - not on vacation, post-call or in clinic.) Schedule patients for 9:30 or 10:30 am and coordinate with the other residents on rotation. Faculty will rotate each month and one faculty member will be there to discuss the case in advance, observe the session behind a one-way mirror and provide guidance and feedback after the session is complete. We anticipate that you will interview the family and/or child for approximately 20 minutes. We want this to be real world pediatrics!!

It is essential that you find and schedule the patient. Start thinking about this in advance of the rotation. Please confirm with them the day before so we have high show rates.

Rotating Faculty:

Carol Weitzman, M.D.
John Leventhal, M.D.
Andrea Asnes, M.D.
Joanne Burger, M.D.
Joe Avni-Singer, M.D.
Ron Angoff, M.D.

Developmental Screening

As part of this rotation, you will be learning to screen young children's development using standardized instruments. Please read the following online article.

Please try to schedule 2 children you follow in clinic who are less than 5 years of age with or without developmental concerns to come in on 2 successive weeks for developmental screening. (Week 1: 2pm or later - coordinate with the other residents on rotation, Week 2: 1:30 pm or later- coordinate with the other residents on rotation). Either you or Dr. Stahl will administer the developmental screens. In total, it will take approximately 20 minutes of families' time. The screening will take place in the developmental room within the PCC.

It is essential that you find and schedule a patient. Once you have scheduled a patient, let Dr. Stahl know (sherin.stahl@yale.edu) Otherwise, we have to find patients in the waiting room to screen and this is often inefficient and not always successful.

Independent Learning Activities

There are a number of components to the independent learning activities. Begin by identifying an area of child behavior and development of interest. If you are not going into general pediatrics, try to identify a topic that pertains to your subspecialty. During the rotation, accomplish the following goals:

• What are the kids reading? Read a book relevant to your topic that is aimed at kids and critique it*. Use your public library for this. If you can't find ANYTHING let me know and we will see if we can help to get a book.
• What are the parents reading? Read a book relevant to your topic that is aimed at parents and critique it*.
  

  *Please submit a completed review of the book you've read that was aimed at kids or parents. DBP Book Review Form

  Go to BOOK REVIEWS

---

• Complete at least three modules in the Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics Training Modules for Clinical Issues in Primary Care. Choose the cases that are of most interest to you. Dr. Weitzman has the discs for this. Please be prepared to discuss them and offer your critique.
• Attend a parent support group relevant to your topic if you can find one or attend a parent support group for anything related to child behavior and development. (There is a list of potential groups to attend on the next page.) If you find a new group or one of the listed groups doesn't exist anymore, or is not good, etc., please let me know.
• Conduct a literature search on some aspect of your topic. Find one particularly interesting or relevant article (if you think it is a good article for your fellow residents, email the COMPLETE CITATION to AnnMarie Healy to be added to the website) and meet with a faculty member or other appropriate person to discuss it. Try to think outside the box here!
• Interview a parent with autism or fetal alcohol syndrome to understand more fully how chronic disability impacts a family. Dr. Weitzman can help you make those connections.
• Summarize your findings and conclusions in a 15-minute presentation at the end of the month in DBP conference.

Please complete the Independent Learning Activities Checklist and return to Dr. Weitzman at the end of the rotation.

Parent Support Groups

• Downloadable PDF of available Parent Support Groups
• Please call in advance to confirm that the group is happening at the stated time. These groups are a bit of an unknown entity.
• Explain who you are and obtain permission to attend. (I can provide a letter of introduction to fax to them.)
• If you go to a new group, please forward contact and information to Carol Weitzman so it can be added to the list.
• Please write a thank you note after the visit if applicable.