Provision of health care for adolescents is now a basic tenet of pediatrics, advocated and
supported by both the American Academy of Pediatrics 1 and the American Board of …

Adolescents report important unmet health care needs. This study directly assesses
pediatricians' current practices pertinent to the primary care of adolescents. An anonymous …

The recently published Report of the Task Force on Pediatric Education has had a
substantial impact on the growth of the field of adolescent medicine in three areas. First, the …

PURPOSE:: To determine current adolescent health care practices of pediatricians and
evaluate whether changes have taken place during the past decade. METHODS:: A …

Background According to 2000 census data, adolescents aged 10 to 19 years comprise
14.6% of the US population. 1 This large population is a vulnerable group with specific …

Adolescent and young adult medicine is a concept that has gained traction in the last
decade or so. The medical literature has come primarily from oncology. Advances in …

Adolescent medicine has emerged as a discipline in the present era with few key curricular
or skill areas clarified and little consensus regarding the acceptance and interest generated …

Leean and mean, cost-effective but comprehensivethe prescription for not just adolescent
medicine but all of medicine in the 1990s. Perkins et al remind us in this issue of the Journal …

More than a quarter of a century after Dr. J. Roswell Gallagher began the first formal
adolescent medicine program, several significant issues surrounding care for teenagers …

Teaching clinical medicine—like the practice of medicine—remains an art. Even in
ambulatory pediatrics, where attempts have been made to provide objective analysis in …