Pediatric training in emergency medicine

✍ Scribed by C. Randolph Turner

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 81 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(82)80504-0

✦ Synopsis

and colleagues at the Philadelphia Children's Hospital (PCH) Emergency Department present in this' issue • of Annals a provocative article, especially for those who are directors or trainees in emergency medicine (EM) residencies. The questionnaire responses which form the basis of the article present an interesting, and occasionally almost incongruous, variance of facts and opinions concerning the pediatric component of the endorsed EM residencies, ie, the volume of pediatric patients varied from legs than 1,000 to 60,000 annually in the programs surveyed.

Other items discussed in the article are length of time spent in pediatrics, location of training, qualification of directors and consultants, and the scope of didactic presentations.

The authors stress the need for prompt and accurate Pediatric Emergency Care (PEC). Recognition of the truly ill and severely injured can be difficult even for the best trained. Their concern is that volume and gravity of PEC rendered in the emergency departments is not proportionately considered in planning the EM residency programs. This same concern has been expressed to me in my