Community Child Health

Supervising Committee

Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) in Community Child Health

Definition of Specialty

Community Child Health involves an understanding of how the interplay between physical and social environmental factors and human biology affects the growth and development of all young people whether well, ill, impaired or disabled. The social environment includes family and school as well as broader social influences, such as the regard given to the rights of children and the policies and laws that affect the life of children and the services provided within a society to promote their developmental health and well being.

The specialist Community Paediatrician will exercise professional leadership in community child health through participation in activities such as teaching, clinical and population health research; health promotion; evidence-based policy and service development; program planning and evaluation; community education and advocacy for the well being of children and young people, in addition to the provision of relevant clinical care and demonstrable commitment to their own professional development.

General Principles

1. Advanced Training in Community Child Health will be supervised by the SAC in Community Child Health (SAC CCH), reporting to the CPPT and Board of Paediatric Censors (BPC).
   
2. Until such stage as a process for accrediting institutional training programs and supervisors has been finalised, and you wish to pursue the Advanced Training in Community Child Health, you should discuss your proposed training prosepectively with the Coordinator of Advanced Training (CAT) or Chair of the SAC in Community Child Health.
   
3. Advanced Training in Community Child Health will be for three years following satisfactory completion of Basic Training and the FRACP Examination in paediatrics.
   
4. At least 6 months must consist of supervised clinical training in a multidisciplinary community based child health setting approved prospectively by the SAC CCH.
   
5. The equivalent of one year full-time could be spent in a SAC CCH approved post-graduate university study leading to an MPH, MBA or similar higher course work degrees in which elective modules, theses or dissertations relevant to the practice of Community Child Health are taken.
   
6. The equivalent of one year full-time could be spent in a SAC CCH approved population-based or health services research.
   
7. Working in more than one setting and working in more than one centre is encouraged.
   
8. The specialist Community Paediatrician must develop a broad understanding of the ecology of child and adolescent health and development and the risk and protective factors which influence them at an individual, family, community and societal level.

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