Paediatric Medicine

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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.


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).