What is pediatrician residency

Pediatrics is the specialty primarily concerned with the physical, emotional and social health of children from birth to young adulthood. The field encompasses preventive health as well as diagnosis and treatment of both acute and chronic diseases.

These are minimum requirements. Some programs may have longer residencies. There are rotations in general pediatric inpatients, neonatology, emergency, subspecialties, and community pediatrics. In the second and third years, intensive care is added, as well as elective time. There is graded responsibility from junior to senior residency, with the second year being a transition from junior to senior.

The general pediatric ward utilizes a Clinical Teaching Unit CTU format with the supervisory senior year resident assuming leadership of a resident-medical student team.

This team is responsible for all patient care on the CTU. Call commitments are designed to provide residents with further educational opportunities. A night float call system is used for the coverage of the clinical teaching units CTU during the weeknights.

Residents in years 1 through 3 complete two 2-week night float rotations per year. Night float runs Sunday through Thursday nights with cross covering residents working the weekend. Program Information - Victoria site. Our program reflects the components of specialty training: the first three years provide exposure to acute care and ambulatory pediatrics as well as the subspecialties, with a graded responsibility from junior to senior residency.

Most of the subspecialty education will be via longitudinal experiences with mixed general pediatrics and subspecialty clinics. Rural community pediatric rotations will occur for months, once during the junior and once during the senior years. Block rotations in emergency medicine, CTU, NICU, surgery, neurology, and rural experience, with half the year constructed around longitudinal experiences in a range of areas including ambulatory pediatrics, endocrinology, psychiatry, developmental, cardiology, allergy, rheumatology, genetics, social pediatric and others.

A range of experiences directed at helping the trainee take on a more senior role in clinical reasoning and management, with ongoing longitudinal experience, and a senior rural block. The Program Director counsels senior residents and works with them to tailor much of their fourth year to meet academic interests, career goals and objectives.

The Pediatric medical staff in Victoria are a collegial group, interacting frequently with their subspecialty colleagues, other specialities, primary care providers, and with inter-professional team members. Trainees can expect significant hands on experience in a range of settings, and enjoy the opportunity to thrive in a professional environment that is excited about a new training opportunity. The Facilities. British Columbia Children's and Women's Hospitals serve as the primary source of pediatric training in the province.

A new Acute Care Center opened in late The hospital also provides primary and secondary pediatric care to the pediatric population in and around Vancouver. Virtually all medical and surgical subspecialties are represented at this centre. There is a total of beds with approximately 8, admissions per year.

The bed Pediatric ICU has approximately 1, admissions per year. We also have an active pediatric cardio-thoracic surgery service. The Ambulatory Care Building hosts over 40 clinics seeing over , visits per year.

There are active medical, surgical and psychiatric daycare programs. Victoria General Hospital is an acute care hospital where the pediatric ward has 23 pediatric beds. A 5 bed Pediatric Intensive Care, a 22 bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a labour and delivery unit where there are deliveries per year. Outpatient specialized pediatric clinics exist here, in the areas of diabetes, oncology, asthma, cystic fibrosis, genetics, neurology, rheumatology, neonatal follow up and cardiology.

A range of subspecialty and general pediatric experiences will occur both in a block and longitudinal format in Victoria. The Developmental Centre of Queen Alexandra Centre in Victoria allows exposure to many complex behavioral and developmental patients in the context of a multidisciplinary team setting.

The placement of this hub as a referral center for all of Vancouver Island will allow the resident in training to see a range of developmental issues and appreciate the importance of forging management plans that acknowledge the resources of the referring community. Our faculty and staff members are very approachable and incredibly invested in all aspects of patient care and resident education.

In addition to the top-notch training you will receive, CHM is also a friendly and welcoming environment in which to work. Although you will be busy during your time here, you can look forward to an always-smiling pediatric education staff, co-residents with a strong sense of camaraderie, and a lot of support from attending physicians and ancillary staff.

In your free time, Detroit is a city on the rise! With a revitalized downtown area, an exciting and ever-growing culinary scene, and four major professional sports teams, there is so much to explore. We wish you the best during the residency application process and hope to meet you soon! In the meantime, do not hesitate to contact our pediatric education office with any questions or concerns that you may have.

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