The Department of Paediatrics is a vibrant and active department. The department is involved in clinical work and contemporary research addressing the issues unique to the children of a developing country. Imparting education and training to the budding doctors using innovative techniques is a priority. Each faculty member is pursuing a subspeciality interest besides doing general paediatrics. To achieve this end, they all attend regular CMEs and training sessions. All have had training at reputed institutions in India and abroad. Wholesome and compassionate care by the department has made it extremely popular in the area and is a favoured referral centre for the paediatricians of the area. The NICU and PICU are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment to render the best contemporary services to sick children attending the hospital. To make the hospital experience less painful for children, painting competitions, fun games, etc. are organised from time to time. Even in the hospital, such needs of children are considered in an empathic manner. To focus on childhood diseases, their identification and comprehensive management, the department conducts regular camps in the hospital and the field. Implementation of national programmes is attended to as a responsibility. Immunisation, nutrition, anaemia, ARI and diarrhoea management are as per the national guidelines. IMNCI, an important component of RCH II, has been taken up in a big way. All faculty members are IMNCI trainers. The programme has been incorporated in the undergraduate curriculum. We have conducted workshops for the training of faculty from other medical colleges. The department has a well-equipped library with books of all specialities and subspecialities. There are several paper and online journals that add to the knowledge of the ever-questing minds of the physicians in the department.

FACILITIES:

1. Child Welfare Clinic

2. Immunization Clinic, Child Rehabilitation Clinic, Nutrition Clinic 3. Teaching Beds – 90 No. 4. Nursing Station, Examination Room, Treatment Room, Pentry, Store, Duty Room & Demo Room. 5. PICU - 05 Beds & NICU - 05 Beds

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

The goal of teaching undergraduate students is to allow them to acquire adequate knowledge and appropriate skills for dealing optimally with the major health problems of children. Objectives: The objective of undergraduate teaching is that at the end of the course the student is able to

1. Describe the normal growth and development during foetal life, the neonatal period, childhood and adolescence and outline any deviation.
2. Describe the common paediatric disorders and emergencies in terms of epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, rational therapy and rehabilitation.
3. State age-related requirements of calories, nutrients, fluids, drugs, etc. in health and disease.
4. Describe preventive strategies for common infectious disorders, malnutrition, genetic and metabolic disorders, poisonings, accidents and child abuse.
5. Outline national programmes relating to child health, including immunisation programmes.

Skills:- At the end of the course, the student is able to

1. Take a detailed pediatric history; conduct an appropriate physical examination of children, including neonates; make clinical diagnoses; conduct common bedside investigative procedures; interpret common laboratory investigation results; and plan and institute therapy.
2. Take anthropometric measurements, resuscitate newborn infants at birth, prepare oral rehydration solution, perform a tuberculin test, administer vaccines available under current national programmes, perform venesection, and start an intravenous saline.
3. Conduct diagnostic procedures such as lumbar puncture, liver and kidney biopsy bone marrow aspiration pleural tap and ascetic tap
4. Distinguish between normal newborn babies and those requiring special care and institute early care for all newborn babies, including care of preterm and low birth weight babies, and provide correct guidance and counselling in breastfeeding.
5. Provide ambulatory care to all sick children, identify indications for specialised inpatient care and ensure timely referral of those who require hospitalisation.

Integration:- The training in pediatric is such that it prepare the students to deliver preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative services for children for both in community and in the hospital as a team in integration with other disciplines as Anatomy, Surgery, Medicine, Gynecology , etc.

SERVICES / CME

SERVICES PROVIDED BY DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS

• TRAINING & TEACHING: - MBBS Undergraduate students
  1. An IAP quiz is conducted regularly for the undergraduates so that learning is mixed with fun.
  2. The IMNCI programme has been incorporated into the undergraduate curriculum.
  3. The department has conducted workshops for training of faculty from other medical colleges.
  4. Many CMEs are conducted round the year
  5. ORS week is celebrated every year from 25th to 31st July.
  6. Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1st to 7th August.
  7. Nutrition week is celebrated every year from 1st to 7th September.
  8. Global Handwashing Day is celebrated every year on 15th October.
  9. Adolescent week is celebrated every year from 14th to 21st November.
  10. World AIDS Day is celebrated every year on 1st December.
• PATIENT CARE & EMERGENCY SERVICES:
  1. Indoor/outdoor patient care
  2. Emergencies care in the triage room
  3. Neonatal resuscitation in the labour room & O.T.
  4. Intensive care in NICU/PICU
  5. Specialty clinics
• COMMUNITY SERVICES
  1. Immunization
  2. Health camps in collaboration with Department of Community medicine

FACULTY