Australasian college paediatrics

Tell me about Training for Pediatric Surgeons at Australasian College? Please give me the list of all post graduate courses in Pediatrics and list of medical colleges in Australia?

[Kiran Chandar]

As you want to know the full name of Australasian College which is The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is a not-for-profit professional organization responsible for training, education, and representing over 13,500 physicians and paediatricians and 5,000 trainees in 25 medical specialties in Australia and New Zealand.

Training for Paediatric Surgeons is part of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeon's Surgical Education and Training (SET) program.

In Paediatric surgery who want to do training must have following knowledge:
A detailed knowledge of those conditions recognized as belonging to General Paediatric Surgery including Paediatric Urology.
General knowledge in following areas of:
• surgery
• paediatric neonatology
• anaesthesia
Principles of surgical practice such as:
• infection control
• electrical and radiation safety
• safety in the operating theatre
• communication with families
• rehabilitation and ethics

Contact details of Royal Australasian College of Physicians are following:
Executive Officer Paediatric Surgery: Terleetha Kruger
College of Surgeons' Gardens, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
paediatric.board@surgeons.org
Telephone: +61 3 9276 7416


List of available Postgraduate Courses in Pediatrics are following:
• M.Ch Pediatric Surgery
• MS in Pediatric Dentistry
• Master of Surgery in Pediatric Surgery
• Master of Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics
• Master of Physiotherapy in Pediatric Neurology
• Master of Physiotherapy- Pediatrics
• Doctor of Medicine in Pediatric Surgery
• Doctor of Medicine in Pediatrics and Neonatology
• Doctor of Philosophy in Pediatrics
• Doctor of Philosophy in Pediatrics Surgery
• Doctor of Medicine- Pediatrics Medicine
• Postgraduate Diploma in Pediatrics
• Postgraduate Diploma in Adoloscent Pediatrics
• Post-Doctoral Certificate Courses in Pediatric Gastroenterology
• Post-Doctoral Certificate Courses in Pediatric Endocrinology

List of medical colleges in Australia is following:

Australian National University [ANU]
Bond University [Bond]
Deakin University [Deakin]
Flinders University [FLINDERS]
Griffith University [GRIFFITH]
James Cook University [JCU]
Monash University [MONASH]
University of Adelaide [ADELAIDE]
University of Melbourne [MELBOURNE]
University of New South Wales [UNSW]
University of Newcastle [NEWCASTLE]
University of Notre Dame Australia - The [UNDA]
University of Queensland [QUEENSLAND]
University of Sydney [SYDNEY]
University of Tasmania [TASMANIA]
University of Western Australia [UWA]
University of Western Sydney [UWS]
University of Wollongong [UOW]