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Child Health Curriculum

Teaching in child health commences in Year 1 within the community course where students are placed in general practices and visit families and clinics. In Year 2, students are introduced to common child health subjects within the systems-based lecture course. In Year 3 they are introduced to clinical paediatrics in tutorials and the wards in the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital.

In Year 4, small group teaching occurs and students each spend 5 weeks in Paediatrics and Child Health and Infectious Disease of which 2 weeks are in the medical ward, 1 week in the surgical ward, 1 week in community child health and the neonatal unit and 1 week in the infection ward. In Year 5, the last year of undergraduate teaching, those students who opt for paediatrics and child health, rather than adult medicine or medicine for the elderly, spend 8 weeks in a designated child health area and produce detailed case reports on children and families that they have cared for in that time. The Scottish Child Health core curriculum, which was developed in collaboration with the Universities of Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh forms the basis for these attachments and the assessments at the end of Years 3, 4 and 5. In the Foundation years, new graduates can choose to include paediatrics in their rotations.