A Common Vision for the Pediatrician
Global Perspective
Task
Draft the Vision
The Pediatrician Defined
"Pediatrics is concerned with the health of
infants, children and adolescents, their growth
and development, and their opportunity to
achieve full potential as adults."
Richard E.Behrman
Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics
The Global Pediatrician
A Global Pediatrician
Understands the state of child health globally
and locally and has the knowledge, skills,
attitudes, and behaviors to improve the lives
of children individually and collectively.
Elements of a Global Pediatrician
• Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
• Global demographics.
• Children in the health care systems function.
• Social structures supporting child health.
Elements of a Global Pediatrician
• Diseases and conditions (ICD-10).
• Function (ICF-CY).
• Child Development.
• Environmental health.
• Ethics and Child Health
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Professional
Manager
Communicator
MEDICAL
EXPERT
Advocate
Scholar
Collaborator
A Global Pediatrician
Has the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and
behaviors to:
• Improve the lives of individual children.
• Impact the lives of all children.