The earliest mentions of child-specific medical problems appear in the Hippocratic Corpus, published in the fifth century B.C., and the famous Sacred Disease. These publications discussed topics such as … 查看更多內容

The body size differences are paralleled by maturation changes. The smaller body of an infant or neonate is substantially different physiologically from that of an adult. Congenital defects, genetic variance, and developmental issues are of greater concern … 查看更多內容

Aspiring medical students will need 4 years of undergraduate courses at a college or university, which will get them a BS, BA or other bachelor's degree. After completing … 查看更多內容

Subspecialties of pediatrics include:
(not an exhaustive list)
• Addiction medicine (multidisciplinary)
• Adolescent medicine 查看更多內容

A major difference between the practice of pediatric and adult medicine is that children, in most jurisdictions and with certain exceptions, cannot make decisions for themselves. The issues of guardianship, privacy, legal responsibility, and informed consent must … 查看更多內容

The training of pediatricians varies considerably across the world. Depending on jurisdiction and university, a medical degree course may be either undergraduate-entry or graduate-entry. The former commonly takes five or six years and has … 查看更多內容

(not an exhaustive list)
• Child neurology
• Child and adolescent psychiatry, subspecialty of psychiatry
• Neurodevelopmental disabilities
• Pediatric anesthesiology, subspecialty of anesthesiology 查看更多內容