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Children's Health The Department of Child Health focuses on the health of children within the framework of family and society. Faculty emphasize the growth, nutrition, development and mental and physical health of children while teaching skills in interviewing and patient care. Medical students learn to recognize the special emotional and physical features of infancy and childhood. Research activities encompass a wide range of topics: adolescent medicine, critical care, cardiology, child abuse, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, endocrinology, gastroenterology, genetics, growth, hematology, infectious diseases, neonatology, nephrology, nutrition, rheumatology and developmental problems. Children's Hospital has a 16-bed adolescent unit, an 11-bed pediatric intensive care unit and mid-Missouri's most experienced Level III NICU. An interdisciplinary patient-care program helps children with multiple disabilities. There is special emphasis on primary care of children in rural settings. Divisions in the department of Child Health include:
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