zma000473 Abstract Kopyta Kopyta Ilona I Dr. med.

Silesian School of Medicine, Department of Neuropaediatrics, 40-752 Katowice, Medykow street 16, Poland, Tel.: +48 (32) 207-1600Silesian School of Medicine, Department of Neuropaediatrics, Katowice, Poland

neurdziec@slam.katowice.pl author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 Undergraduate and Postgraduate Paediatric Education, Subspecialities 20070925 20070925 20071001 20071114 engl 1860-3572 24 4 GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung GMS Z Med Ausbild 179 Abstract Paediatric curriculum for undergraduate medical students The paediatric course starts in the third year of studies and lasts up to the sixth year of the studies. In each year, the course lasts four weeks and is carried out exclusively in the clinical centres; in every week of the course, the students have lectures and classes with the patients. In the sixth year, the students take the examination, which consists of three parts: test, patient’s examination and an oral interview, discussion. Postgraduate paediatric course for general practitioners The general practionioner’s course lasts 48 months and the paediatric course takes 6 months. During this time the doctors study neonatal pathology, normal psychomotor development, genetic and metabolic congenital disorders, the most common neurological, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrinological, circulatory and haematopoetic system disorders, skin and infectious diseases, childhood neoplasms. The whole course ends with a test. Postgraduate paediatric speciality The general course lasts 60 months and again is carried out only in clinical paediatric centres. The course is divided into the following parts: infants’ department ( 15 months), older children department (14 months), neonatology, cardiology, pulmonology, nephrology, gastroenterology, neurology, intensive care, oncology units (2 months each), allergology, endocrinology, ENT, surgery, infectious diseases, rheumatology, ophthalmology, dermatology departments (1 month each). The course is finished with an examination that consists of a test, patient’s examination and a case discussion / interview. Paediatic subspecialities There are four paediatric subspecialties in Poland: neurology, oncology and haematology, neonatology, and cardiology. The paediatric neurology course lasts 42 months, cardiology- 36 months, oncology and haematology- 36 months, neonatology- 24 months. There also exist other paediatric specialties, paediatric surgery, ENT and psychiatry, which may be started just after the medical study course. The courses may be only taken in the clinical centres. The paediatric curriculum and all the specialty programs are created by the Ministery of Health. 0 0 0 0