 Waikids
Child and youth health is unique and different. To acknowledge this Waikato District Health Board now has ‘Waikids’, a new name and a new look to unite all Waikato child and youth health services!
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 The Child and Youth Health service is a dynamic forward-thinking department. Integration of care comes from the community to acute care with good working relationships between professionals who continue to provide a child-friendly service.
Our service comprises secondary and tertiary paediatric medical and surgical inpatient services (48 beds), acute and elective, and newborn intensive care (level 3 - 36 cots), with the retrieval and transfer of sick neonates by air. We have a brand new Newborn Unit opened February 2009.
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We provide outpatient services for paediatric medicine and surgery (both secondary and tertiary) – region-wide (e.g. Tauranga, Thames etc). Paediatric surgery includes neonatal surgery and is the tertiary service for the Midland region. There is accreditation for paediatric surgical training. We also have a Child Development
Centre, Mothercraft Unit, play specialists and a Child Protection Service.
Who we are:- Nine paediatricians with subspecialty interests (oncology, haematology, respiratory and CF, cardiology, behavioural and developmental, renal)
- Four neonatologists
- 10 medical registrars and three surgical registrars
- Seven medical SHOs and one surgical house officer
Opportunities for RMOs:- Orientation at start of each run for RMOs
- Paediatric specific training: departmental teaching – case-based and topic-based, Journal Club & radiology conference. Access to tele-paeds teaching: weekly Starship Update and Starship Grand Round. (four-six hours/week)
- Support with Diploma of Child Health (Otago) or Diploma of Paediatrics (Auckland)
- FRACP preparation – access to tele-paeds weekly FRACP teaching
- Involvement with outpatient clinics – both SHOs and registrars
- Essential experience for anyone considering a future in General Practice, ED, sub-speciality surgeries (ENT, Orthopaedics, Plastics or Ophthalmology – as all have contact with children).
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