Pediatrics is the branch of medicine dealing with the health and medical care of infants, children, and adolescents from birth up to the age of 18.
A paediatrician is a child's physician who provides not only medical care for children who are acutely or chronically ill but also preventive health services for healthy children.
Paediatrics is different from adult medicine in more ways than one. The smaller body of an infant or neonate or a child is substantially different physiologically from that of an adult. Paediatrics is concerned not only about immediate management of the ill child but also long- term effects on quality of life, disability and survival.
Paediatrics is a collaborative specialty. Paediatricians need to work closely with other medical specialists and healthcare professionals and subspecialists of paediatrics to help children with problems
In our department, pediatrics residents are taught not only how to treat patients and reduce infant and child rate of deaths but alsocontrol the spread of infectious disease, promote healthy lifestyles for a long disease-free life and help ease the problems of children and adolescents with chronic conditions.
Overall program goals of Pediatric Residency Program in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences:
The program operates under six core competencies:
- Patient Care,
- Medical Knowledge,
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills,
- Professionalism,
- Practice Based Learning and Improvement
- Systems Based Practice
- Pediatrics Department Established at 1976 in Isfahan University of medical Sciences.
- Subspecialties in Isfahan University Pediatrics Department:
- Neonatology
- Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Pediatric Intensive Care
- Pediatric Endocrinology
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
- Pediatric Infectious Disease
- Pediatric Nephrology
- Pediatric Neurology
- Pediatric Pulmonology
- Pediatric Rheumatology (commencing from October 2018)
Missions and Visions:
Mission:
Through excellence and leadership to optimize the health & wellbeing of infants, children, and youth within the context of their families.
Visions:
Our mission will be accomplished through the following practices:
- Comprehensive and complex clinical care at the highest level
- Dynamic education of professionals involved in pediatric health that puts the needs of learners first
- Innovative and transformative research in pediatric health at the bench, at the bedside, in the clinics, and in the population at large
- Effective advocacy on behalf of vulnerable pediatric populations as an engaged partner with the communities we serve
- Commitment to an effective, efficient, transparent, and accountable organization that encourages professional growth
Faculty Members:
Total Number of Faculty members are 53 academic members including:
- 12 General Pediatrician
- 41 Subspecialties in different branches
Programs and degrees:
Specialty degreein Pediatrics (Iranian board certified)
Subspecialty degree in:
- Pediatric Endocrinology
- Pediatric Neonatology
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Pediatric Neurology
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
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