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Department of Paediatrics
Clinical Department Head: Medical education has been integral to the Department of Paediatrics from its inception in the late 1950’s. Currently, the Paediatric Programme of the Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation continues to embrace and emphasize medical education in its philosophy of care. In the early days, well-known and respected paediatricians such as Dr R. G MacDonald, Dr R. L Smith, Dr Stephen Wayman and Dr. Douglas Gibbon mentored Residents and Interns. Dr Stephen Siauw, still a valued member of this department, was one of the first Paediatric Residents to train here. Presently, in the department there are four General Paediatricians, two Neonatologists, a Paediatric Endocrinologist and a Paediatric Neurologist. Our medical educaton programme directed by Dr. Cecil Ojah, offers comprehensive teaching and clinical activities for Medical students, Nursing and Respiratory Therapy students, Family Practice, and Paediatric subspecialty residents. All attending paediatricians are involved in offering trainees a broad view of the care of acute and general pediatric inpatients via two busy emergency rooms, the Pediatric and Neonatal intensive care units and the general pediatric ward. The impatient experience is augmented by an active ambulatory area offering outpatient care in virtually all subspecialty areas including Pediatric Cardiology, Rheumatology and Genetics done in association with our colleagues from the IWK Health Centre. We are also exploring, with the Public Health services, an arrangement whereby our house staff may participate in all areas of community health clinics. Additionally, members of the department participate in outreach clinics to the other parts of Health Region 2 and the province of New Brunswick.
Over the coming years we look forward with enthusiasm to new paediatricians joining the department bringing with them innovative approaches to the delivery of care and further strengthening our educational resources. Our success as a major teaching unit for Paediatrics at the Saint John Campus of Dalhousie University is reflected in the consistency of outstanding evaluations from our trainees at all levels. All members of the department have contributed to this. In addition, we acknowledge the willingness and support of Dr M.O. Iype, Mrs. Pamela Bourque and all in the Department of postgraduate and undergraduate medical education. Last Updated: 2001-11-13 |
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Administrative Director:
Apart from the breadth of clinical teaching available, the
department also has a well structured series of seminars and Paediatric Grand Rounds at
which all trainees are given the opportunity to present. Our Visiting Paediatric speaker
forum, preceded by an evening journal club at the homes of the paediatricians, affords us
the opportunity to meet and learn from the experts. These speakers are chosen from our
colleagues at the Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre for Women and Children as well as from
paediatric centres across Canada. In keeping with this, we are aggressively working with
the AHSC Telehealth steering committee to be leaders in Paediatric Education for the
Province. All members of the department are encouraged to initiate or participate in
research activities especially with the development of the AHSC Research Services
division. In all our endeavours, we aim to meet and exceed the expectations of the Can
MEDS 2000 Project recognized by both the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and the
College of Family Physicians of Canada.