Accredited Subspecialty Training Programs

Allergy

Information about the Allergy Subspecialty Training Program will be posted shortly.

Developmental Pediatrics

Developmental Pediatrics offers a 2-year Royal College accredited Subspecialty Residency (Fellowship) training program providing an excellent opportunity for cross-discipline exposure in Developmental Pediatrics, Neurology and Psychiatry. The program provides involvement with a wide range of clinical problems including assessment of children with motor and physical disabilities, emotional and behavioural problems, pervasive developmental disorders, communication disorders, neuromuscular disorders, learning problems, acquired brain injuries and sensory impairments.

The goal of the program is to train Developmental Pediatric Specialists with expertise in child development spanning from birth to adolescence. In addition to providing developmental pediatric consultation the subspecialty resident will also participate in a number of multi-disciplinary clinics. This will allow the resident to participate as a medical consultant in these clinics and in the multi-disciplinary discussions and feedback process to families. The opportunity to attend regional Outreach Clinics in Timmins, Brantford, St Catharine’s and Guelph, Ontario will allow the resident to participate in community-based assessments. The program seeks applicants who are enthusiastic about child development and rehabilitation.

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Critical Care

The Pediatric Critical Care Unit is an 8-bed Tertiary Care, Intensive Care Unit that functions as a referral centre for the catchment area of Hamilton/South and Central West Ontario comprising 2.2 million people. The PCCU provides intensive care for more than 750 patients per year with a wide range of complex, rapidly changing medical, surgical and traumatic disorders occurring in pediatric patients aged 17 and under, excluding premature newborns. The PCCU is a fully equipped medical/surgical critical care unit offering a broad range of therapies including HFOV and CRRT and supported by the full complement of pediatric subspecialty services of McMaster Children’s Hospital. In April 2012, a newly constructed PCCU will be opened, offering 12 PCCU beds in a state-of-the art facility.

The McMaster PCCU provides the residents with exposure to a wide variety of medical-surgical patient cases in a closed ICU setting. In this environment, residents have the opportunity to function as junior staff in regards to patient management, supervision and teaching of junior trainees, and administrative decision making (bed management). The Program incorporates 4 blocks of clinical elective time for residents to gain further training and experience according to their individual interests and needs.

The Pediatric Critical Care Unit at McMaster Children’s Hospital has been recognized as an outstanding learning environment by both the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Education Programs at McMaster University and as such, more than 50 trainees of various levels of training rotate through the PCCU on an annual basis. Consistently, individual teaching faculty and the learning environment as a whole have received excellent evaluations from trainees and a number of the PCCU faculty have been formally recognized with teaching awards.

A robust academic Division of Pediatric Critical Care with 7 pediatric intensivists with various areas of interest and expertise including clinical education, information technology, health care and hospital administration, bioethics, palliative care, basic science and health research methodology. Residents will be provided with excellent teaching around research methodology and critical appraisal, with 3 of the faculty members formally trained in this area. Residents at McMaster also benefit from the close professional relationships within the Department of Pediatrics and the formal teaching opportunities and teaching faculty associated with the various pediatric subspecialty training programs at McMaster University.

Gastroenterology

A two-year program is offered giving a breadth of exposure to Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Transplant, Motility and Nutrition. There is an excellent balance with inpatient and outpatient care and residents have ample opportunity to gain competence in endoscopy, including level 1 and 2 type procedures. A continuity clinic is set up in the second year, allowing residents to see consultations and follow-ups with arms-length supervision by staff. Residents are welcome to become more involved in the Pediatric resident education rounds, especially in the second year. The focus of the program is on graded responsibility and learning to balance ward, outpatient, endoscopy, teaching, and research responsibilities in order to be ready for practice as an academic or community pediatric gastroenterologist. Click here for more information.

Hematology/Oncology

The goal of the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology training program is to ensure that the specialists have the competence to consult for and treat children and adolescents with cancer of any organ or non-malignant disorders of the blood and blood-forming tissues. Click here for more information.

Neonatology

Information about the Neonatology Subspecialty Training Program will be posted shortly.

Neurology

In addition to a five year residency training program, the Division of Pediatric Neurology also offers a three year Royal College accredited Fellowship training program. Trainees enter this stream after having completed at least three years of residency training in General Pediatrics. By the end of the additional three years of training in Pediatric Neurology, the trainee will be expected to complete the Royal College Licensing Exam.

Our program begins with a 3 month training period in basic neuroanatomy and neuroscience.  The trainee will then be exposed to a variety of rotations including four 12-week blocks in pediatric neurology, two 12-week blocks in adult neurology, as well as formal blocks in neurophysiology, neuromuscular diseases and developmental pediatrics. Elective time is also available each year.

The McMaster Pediatric Neurology program strives to encourage a life-style friendly learning environment and train pediatric neurologists who are able to practice in a wide variety of clinical and academic settings. Click here for further information about the Pediatric Neurology Subspecialty Training Program.

Non-Accredited Subspecialty Training Programs

Endocrinology

Information about the Endocrinology Subspecialty Training Program will be posted shortly.

General Pediatrics

Information about the General Pediatrics Subspecialty Training Program will be posted shortly.