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Discipline of PaediatricsThe University of Adelaide SA 5005 Australia Telephone: +61 8 8161
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Welcome to Paediatrics and Child Health, Year 5The Year 5 Paediatrics and Child Health course is of 9 weeks duration, and is run by the School of Paediatrics & Reproductive Health, Discipline of Paediatrics, as part of the MBBS course in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide. Enjoy your time in Paediatrics and Child HealthCurrent students with enquiries concerning their studies in the Discipline of Paediatrics should use the following contacts:Ms Juanita Carter or Dr Christina Boros YEAR V COURSE: PAEDIATRICS & CHILD HEALTHCourse DetailsGeneral InformationThe Discipline of Paediatrics is situated at the Women's and Children's Hospital. The Women's and Children's Hospital is a teaching hospital of the University of Adelaide. It provides inpatient and outpatient care at a primary, secondary and tertiary level for Adelaide and South Australia in conjunction with other hospitals and facilities. Some services are also provided for the Northern Territory and for adjacent areas of Victoria.The hospital has over 200 inpatient beds with more than 19,000 admissions of children to its inpatient facilities per year. There are nearly 40,000 casualty attendances by children each year. General medical and surgical facilities are provided for children of all ages. There is a strong emphasis on ambulatory care: in total there are over 200,000 outpatient occasions of service for children annually. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have a major component of their services closely associated with the psychiatry services provided from the hospital campus. Further special areas of service are provided by the Child Development Unit, intensive care facilities and specialist units including pulmonary medicine, gastroenterology, haematology and oncology, cardiology, renal medicine, neurology, genetic and metabolic disorders, endocrinology and diabetes services, allergy, immunology and rheumatology services, paediatric surgery and urology, paediatric orthopaedics, plastic and cranio-facial surgery, ophthalmology, ENT surgery, and paediatric organ imaging facilities. There is a strong commitment to research in child health and disorders of childhood, with excellent research groups extensively involved in clinical, basic science, and public health research. The campus also houses the Child Health Research Institute, and there is a close link with Child and Youth Health. Outpatient facilities/ Paediatric Emergency DepartmentMedical outpatient facilities and general surgical outpatients are situated on the 1st floor of the Rogerson Building. Orthopaedics outpatient clinics and some medical clinics (rheumatology) are on the ground floor of the Clarence Reiger Building.The Paediatric Emergency Department is on the ground floor of the Rogerson Building. Within the Emergency Department is the Short Stay Ward, often used for short term or overnight observation. The Immunisation services and General Practice facilities are adjacent to the Short Stay Ward. Teaching PersonnelTeaching in Paediatrics is under the direction of the Discipline of Paediatrics of the University of Adelaide, and involves University staff and other staff employed by the Women's and Children's Hospital as well as other agencies who provide services for children. The key personnel in the Discipline of Paediatrics are:
The co-ordinator for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health components of the program is Dr Prue McEvoy. Teaching facilitiesThe Discipline of Paediatrics is on the 2nd floor of the Clarence Reiger Building, Women's and Children's Hospital. Access to the Discipline is from the lifts to the left of the main entrance in Kermode Street or from the Rogerson Building lifts (see handbook appendices for map).Lectures, seminars or tutorials will usually be held in the Maxwell Seminar Room in the Clarence Reiger Building on the 2nd floor adjacent to the Discipline of Paediatrics or in the Surgical Seminar Room on the 2nd floor in the Department of Surgery. The Department of Paediatric Surgery (Professor Hock Tan) is on the 2nd floor of the Good Friday Building. Inpatient facilitiesInpatient wards in the hospital have different functions, and the units and wards are listed below:
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