Pediatric Emergency Medicine Training

Training Pediatric Emergency Medicine Specialists in India.

The 180-year-old, Madras Medical College, to which the Institute of Child Health (ICH) is affiliated, has an annual intake of 250 under-graduates and 54 pediatric post graduates. Established in 1997, our Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) was equipped by Japan’s International Cooperation Agency [2]. To sustain the project, the Tamil Nadu government sanctioned a faculty position in PEM. Over, ...

Pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training: a survey of program directors.

Child Abuse Training, Comfort, and Knowledge Among Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, and Pediatric Residents.

PURPOSE To assess the training, comfort, and knowledge related to the medical management of child abuse among emergency medicine, family medicine, and pediatric residents. METHOD In 2004, a 25-item survey was distributed to 274 pediatric, emergency medicine, and family medicine residents at two medical schools in Norfolk, Virginia and Dallas, Texas. Analyses focused on identifying differences...

Parental and Pediatricians’ Perception of Need for Subspecialty Training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine for Delivering Emergency Care to Pediatric Patients

The quality of pediatric emergency care may depend on the competence of the emergency department physicians. It is important to know whether parents and general pediatricians associate the quality of pediatric emergency care with the pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) training of the emergency department physicians. We designed the study to determine parental and pediatricians' opinion and expe...

Best educational practices in pediatric emergency medicine during emergency medicine residency training: guiding principles and expert recommendations.

The state of pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) education within emergency medicine (EM) residency programs is reviewed and discussed in the context of shifting practice environments and new demands for a greater focus on the availability and quality of PEM services. The rapid growth of PEM within pediatrics has altered the EM practice landscape with regard to PEM. The authors evaluate the comp...