The Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, led by Division Chief Todd Callahan, MD, MPH, was founded in 1979. Our fellowship program, led by Program Director Debra Braun-Courville, MD, was accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in 2022. Our pediatric fellowship provides comprehensive interdisciplinary training for those who have successfully completed a pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine-pediatrics or internal medicine residency. The mission of the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program at Vanderbilt is to train future leaders in adolescent medicine by providing them with the necessary skills to become expert and effective clinicians, teachers, researchers, scholars, and public health advocates in a variety of health care settings.
We offer a three-year fellowship program designed to provide training through a variety of clinical experiences, formal educational activities, structured research opportunities, and quality improvement projects. The five core faculty members of the Division of Adolescent Medicine are committed to personal, supportive mentoring of each fellow in both their clinical and scholarly pursuits. The faculty are committed to ensure the success of our trainees both during the fellowship and in their post-fellowship careers.
Adolescent Medicine fellows will have the opportunity to participate in multiple clinical, educational, and professional experiences including:
- Provision of primary care to adolescents and young adults aged 12-22 years of age at the Adolescent and Young Adult Health Clinic at Vanderbilt (AYAH) at the One Hundred Oaks location
- Adolescent medicine subspecialty/referral practice sessions at One Hundred Oaks
- Practical experience in placing and managing Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC)
- An eating disorder outpatient and inpatient interdisciplinary team program
- A college-based student health service
- A multidisciplinary program devoted to the care of adolescents and young adults affected by and at-risk for HIV
- Sports Medicine
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Community-based outpatient pediatric clinic at Meharry Medical Center
- Clinical teaching in the outpatient and inpatient setting
Over the three years of the fellowship, fellows participate in all these activities with more clinical rotations in the first year and fewer in the second and third years to allow protected time for research and other scholarly pursuits.