(1) Provides the students with a data base in pediatrics in order for them to approach the clerkship with some basic understanding of pediatric problems. The course will cover aspects of growth, perinatology, morbidity-mortality in Pediatrics, nutrition, fluid balance, infections of many systems, and neurologic and psychologic development. The course will consist of didactic teaching and small group tutorials where problems related to lecture content are discussed.
(8) Clerkship in Pediatrics as a member of a clinical service provides the opportunity for experience in the management of pediatric problems under supervision. The clerkship includes ward and ambulatory rotations at the Montreal Children's Hospital and newborn experience at either the Jewish General Hospital or the Royal Victoria Hospital. The clerks participate in a series of core-material conferences in addition to the regularly scheduled educational program of the hospital.
