1. Results Description Objectives Introduction Maximum Potential: Medical Training in Pediatric Ambulatory Clerkship Jina Youn, MS4; Chad Teven, MS4; Tarak Trivedi, MS3; Kinga Skowron, MS3; Marcus Dahlstrom, MS3; Puneet Singh MS4; Zoe Yu, MS4; Tao Cui, MD, PhD*; Yingshan Shi, MD. * West China Women’s and Children’s Hospital, China Clinical training in medical school focuses on the technical knowledge that medical students will need to succeed in their medical careers. In the age of information technology (IT), the dimension for patient, physician, and student education has been greatly extended. The nature of medical training must reflect this change. The pediatric ambulatory clerkship at the University of Chicago provides junior medical students with four weeks of patient care experience, directed by attending pediatricians. This one-on-one interaction between attending and student allows for the teaching of important clinical skills. While technical knowledge and basic clinical skills are the most essential skills gained, medical students also gain exposure to the rapidly evolving IT advances that are reshaping primary practice. The objective is to maximize the educational potential of the ambulatory pediatric rotation using unique opportunities such as participation in closely-mentored research, the development of online resources for patient education, and community outreach. This allows students to acquire skills and knowledge for their future careers regardless of specialty choice. During the last four years, medical students and their mentor have collaborated on building a website and workshops to provide extra tools for medical training. Since March of 2006, 51 junior medical students and their mentor have worked to: Gain mastery of the curriculum and participate in extra- curricular education. Identify evidence based medical literature and patient education resources and to organize such resources for patient education by designing a user-friendly web-site. Identify clinical research topics in primary practice, design surveys, analyze data, and present results. Student activities supplementing their medical education: Development of http://www.funandeducation.org, a website dedicated to medical education and patient education.http://www.funandeducation.org Initiation of clinical research workshops helping students identify potential hypotheses, design clinical surveys, and perform statistical analyses. Building online Child Mental Health Center with an online survey to receive feedback. Over fifty local and international medical students have participated in the survey to date. Initiated online School Health Center&community outreach. Designing and conducting a clinical survey entitled, “The Factors Affecting the Decision of Parents to Accept Seasonal Influenza and H1N1 Vaccination for their Children during a Pandemic” with primary pediatricians, as well as analyzing the data and writing the manuscript. Conclusion Medical students are eager to gain traditional clinical skills and medical knowledge and also to negotiate newly emerging tools for patient education and clinical research in primary practice. Medical students have the ability to handle the additional responsibilities of developing patient education, community outreach, and clinical research effectively, without compromising the curricular objectives. This experience allows medical students to gain skills in harnessing the power of IT to fulfill patient education objectives as well as gain experience in how research is conducted in a busy primary care practice at an academic institution. Fig 1. An example of a page developed by medical students & their mentor to provide educational material. Year 2006Commencement of website www.funandeducation.orgwww.funandeducation.org Workshop for online patient education 2007Website design and development 2008Workshop for searching online clinical literature and patient education resources effectively 2009Publication of the Book, “Maximum Potential for Toddlers” Workshop on “How to make web-pages” 2010Clinical survey “The Factors Affecting the Decision of Parents for Accepting Seasonal Influenza and H1N1 Vaccination for their Children during a Pandemic” Building the online Child Mental Health Center with an online survey to receive feedback. Clinical survey “School Health Initiatives –Parent Perception” Tutorial for clinical survey design Timeline of Extra-curriculum for Pediatric Ambulatory Rotation