Community Child Health

Components of Training

Demonstrable Skills should be acquired in the domains of:

• clinical practice: including assessment and management of children and young people with developmental, learning and behavioural problems and disabilities, child abuse and neglect, paediatric rehabilitation, child and adolescent psychiatry
  
• population medicine: which encompasses needs assessment, including the needs of child and adolescent populations with specific needs, community diagnosis, screening and surveillance, infectious disease control, injury control, health program planning, evaluation, and research including the quantitative and qualitative measurement of health outcomes
  
• effective health service provision and utilisation: management, communication, team leadership, liaison and referral skills within and across disciplines and relevant government, non-government and private agencies
  
• child and adolescent health promotion: through education, information provision, effective use of medicine and other preventive programs and advocacy
  
• academic leadership: through participation in teaching, training and research
  
• individual professional development: through an ability to critically appraise literature, undertake research, demonstrable keyboard and computing skills, and continuing medical and other professionally relevant education
  
• knowledge: of government policies, programs and services and their philosophical underpinnings which affect the health of children, particularly those with additional needs.

Advanced Training should provide you with a flexibility and a diversity of opportunities to enable exposure to each of the domains listed above. Further information about the suggested content of training is available from the CAT. It is expected that when you apply to enter Advanced Training, you and your supervisor should, in consultation with the DPPT and where necessary with the SAC CCH, review your Basic Training, and plan subsequent training according to your long term plans regarding your future role and pattern of practice as a Community Paediatrician. Core requirements for training should be noted at this stage and a formal review of training with supervisors should occur twice yearly.

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