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Pediatrics

Adolescent Medicine

BMC’s Division of Adolescent Medicine, or Adolescent Center, is a medical home to adolescents and young adults ages 14 to 25, providing primary care as well as hosting targeted subspecialty clinics and programs.

BMC’s Division of Adolescent Medicine is a medical home to adolescents and young adults ages 14 to 25. The division provides primary care and hosts subspecialty programs in areas such as addiction and substance use, family planning, gender care, menstrual disorders, and parent–child one-stop care for youth who are parents. An interdisciplinary team—comprised of adolescent medicine fellowship–trained physicians, providers with strong adolescent medicine expertise, adolescent medicine nurses, social workers, a family planning counselor, a patient navigator, and a practice coordinator—provides wraparound services to address the unique needs of adolescents and young adults.

Location and Contact

Referrals are not necessary to establish primary care at the Adolescent Center. Outside facilities may refer patients to our subspecialty clinics. Patients who require a confidential reproductive health visit should request it when booking the appointment.
Department of Pediatrics
801 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA 02119
7th Floor
Crosstown Center
617.414.4086

Monday – Thursday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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Related Departments and Programs

Pediatric Primary Care

Our pediatric team is dedicated to delivering the highest quality care to children from infancy through young adulthood, partnering closely with families to support every child’s …

Aftercare Clinic

BMC’s Adolescent Aftercare Clinic offers confidential short-term medical and behavioral health care for patients ages 13 to 22 who have experienced sexual trauma. Patients are wel…

CATALYST Clinic

An initiative offering counseling, support, and medical care for teenagers and young adults with substance use concerns.

Family Planning Clinic

The Adolescent Family Planning Clinic at Boston Medical Center provides confidential, compassionate, and nonjudgmental reproductive health care for teens and young adults up to ag…

Menstrual Disorders Clinic

Boston Medical Center’s Menstrual Disorders Clinic (MDC) is located in the Adolescent Center, within the Department of Pediatrics. Our clinicians provide expert diagnosis and trea…

Teen and Tot Program

The Teen and Tot Program (TTP) is a specialized program focused on adolescent pregnancy and parenting, located within Boston Medical Center’s Adolescent Center.

Education and Training

The Division of Adolescent Medicine is a primary training site for pediatric residents in the Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical Center Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) and is home to a fourth-year medical student elective for students at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Residents in family medicine and in the combined family medicine/psychiatry program, as well as fellows in addiction medicine and endocrinology, regularly rotate through the division.

Learn More About BCRP Explore Our Family Medicine Residency

Adolescent Medicine Research Overview

Adolescent Medicine faculty participate in research activities through the Youth Advocacy and Research Collaborative or the Pediatric Health Services Division.

Current research in the Adolescent Division includes the Youth Overdose Prevention Study, which aims to create a brief, universal overdose prevention intervention for youth that can be delivered during their annual physical exam. In the initial phase, the team worked with a community advisory board of local stakeholders to design an anticipatory guidance intervention. The intervention will be piloted in a randomized control trial at BMC, and that data will be used to develop a larger-scale trial.

In addition, researchers are participating in the PrEP/Apretude Adherence study, which uses innovative smartphone gaming apps and guided text messages to measure adherence in adolescents and young adults who have recently started or restarted pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV.

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