Sub-specialty program

Objectives:

To prepare a pediatrician who is capable of providing high quality, culturally acceptable clinical service/care to pediatric patients in an ethical and professional manner to individuals, families and communities at all level of health care settings.
To prepare a pediatric specialist who promotes and prevents pediatric and child health services to individual, families and communities at all level of health care settings.
To prepare a pediatric specialist who is able to lead and manage the pediatric health care system
To prepare a pediatric specialist who can effectively teach pediatrics and child health and be a role model for learners
To prepare a pediatric specialist who is able to conduct relevant clinical, epidemiological, and operational research to improve pediatric and child health care system
To prepare a pediatric specialist who demonstrates commitment to autonomous maintenance and continuous improvement of competence (life-long learning)
To prepare a pediatric specialist who is able to critically think, make decisions, and solve problems and develop new solutions for new problems.

Entry Requirements:
The applicant must:

Have practiced as a general practitioner for at least one year.
Pass the residency entrance examination.
Have a sponsor that supports him/her throughout the residency period.
Be registered and licensed to practice medicine by the relevant authority in Ethiopia.
Be in a good state of mental and physical health.

Graduate profile
To meet the needs of the population it serves and mitigate child health problems, the graduate must have the following competencies. The list of competencies is adapted to meet our needs from CanMEDS 2015.
Medical expert

Apply knowledge of established and evolving clinical and biomedical sciences relevant to pediatric patient care.
Elicit a history, perform a physical examination, select and interpret appropriate investigations, perform appropriate clinical procedures to reach at diagnosis and management, disease prevention, and health promotion.
Plan and provide care in collaboration with medical team, patients and their families.
Actively participate, as an individual and as a member of a team providing care, in the continuous improvement of health care quality and patient safety.

Communicator

Elicit relevant information, incorporating the perspectives of patients and their families.
Share health care information and plans with patients and their families.
Engage patients and their families in developing plans that reflect the patient’s health care needs and goals.
Share health information with colleagues and stakeholders.
Document clinical data in an accurate, complete, timely manner.
Timely reporting of notifiable diseases to relevant authorities.

Collaborator

Work effectively with all medical team in the health care professions.
Engage in respectful shared decision-making.
Work with staff in the health care professions to prevent misunderstandings, manage differences, and resolve conflicts.
Safely transfer care of patients to another health care professional or setting.

Leader

Lead a medical team in the care of patients.
Use health care resources for optimal patient care.
Apply management processes to achieve cost-appropriate care.
Design and organize elements of health care delivery.
Facilitate change in health care to enhance services.
Set priorities and manage time to balance practice and personal life.
Manage career planning, finances, and health human resources in a practice.
Anticipate, analyze and prevent adverse events to enhance systems of care.

Health advocate

Work with a community to identify the determinants of health that affect them.
Participate in a process to improve health in the community.
Work with patients and their families to adopt healthy behaviors.
Incorporate disease prevention, health promotion, and health surveillance into interactions with individual patients.
Actively participate in the health rights of children.

Scholar

Engage in the continuous enhancement of professional activities through ongoing learning.
Facilitate the learning of residents, residents, the public, and other health care professionals by ensuring patient safety and creating safe learning environment.
Integrate best available evidence for decision-making.
Critically evaluate the integrity, reliability, and applicability of health-related research and literature.
Contribute to the dissemination and creation of knowledge and practices applicable to health.

Professional

Demonstrate accountability to patients, society, and the profession.
Fulfill and adhere to the professional and ethical codes, standards of practice, and laws governing practice.
Recognize and respond to unprofessional and unethical behaviors in physicians and other colleagues in the health care professions.
Participate in peer assessment and standard-setting.
Promote a culture that recognizes, supports, and responds effectively to colleagues in need.
Demonstrate a commitment to physician health and well-being to foster optimal patient care.
To be a role model for residents under training.

Duration of Study
3 years
Graduation Requirements:

Completion of three years of residency program
Successfully defend thesis
Qualifying exam score of 70% or more

Degree nomenclature
Upon completion of the pediatric and child health residency program, the candidate will be granted certificate of specialty in pediatrics and child health. In Amharic yህፃናት ሕክምና ጤና አጠባበቅ ስፔሻሊስት
List and semester breakdown of courses:
Year I

MODULE TITLE: GENERAL PEDIATRICS I
MODULE TITLE: PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY I
MODULE TITLE: INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND IMMUNOLOGY
MODULE TITLE NEONATOLOGY I
MODULE TITLE: PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE AND PULMONOLOGY I

Year II

GENERAL PEDIATRICS II

MODULE TITLE NEONATOLOGY II
MODULE TITLE PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE AND PULMONOLOGY II
MODULE TITLE PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE II
MODULE TITLE GENERAL PEDIATRICS II
MODULE TITLE PEDIATRIC – HEMATO-ONCOLOGY I
MODULE TITLE GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION
MODULE TITLE NEPHROLOGY
MODULE TITLE ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLIC DISEASES
MODULE TITLE RESEARCH METHODS
MODULE TITLE CARDIOLOGY I

Year III

MODULE TITLE GENERAL PEDIATRICS III
MODULE TITLE NEONATOLOGY III
MODULE TITLE PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE AND PULMONOLOGY III
MODULE TITLE PEDIATRIC – HEMATO-ONCOLOGY II
MODULE TITLE CARDIOLOGY II
MODULE TITLE RESEARCH PROJECT
MODULE TITLE OTOLARYNGOLOGY (ENT)
MODULE TITLE PEDIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH
MODULE TITLE DERMATOLOGY
MODULE TITLE NEUROLOGY
MODULE TITLE OPHTHALMOLOGY
MODULE TITLE: OBSTETRICS