Pediatrics
Overall Goal(s)
- Provide a concentrated exposure to the care of infants, children and adolescents that is supplemental to the one during family medicine clinical experiences
Background and Description
Clinical experience in pediatrics is provided through all family medicine experiences. Typically, well-child care and other common acute and chronic pediatric presentations and conditions are learned best during the pediatric experience during family medicine. Consequently, the pediatric rotation is a supplemental pediatric experience and thus a resident has a choice of this experience in the pediatric emergency room, community pediatricians’ offices, and community pediatric wards
Specific pediatric rotation descriptions can be found here.
Applicable Residency Objectives
1.2 Care of Infants and Children
1.3 Care of Adolescents
1.7 Surgical and Procedural Skills (Not all of the objectives here are applicable)
1.8 Behavioural Medicine
1.9 Emergency Care (especially when rotation is done in the pediatric emergency room)
2.2 P-Pt Relationship
All 7 CanMEDS-FM roles are expected to be demonstrated through this rotation:
- Family Medicine Expert
- Communicator
- Collaborator
- Manager
- Health Advocate
- Scholar
- Professional
