Paediatrics

Paediatrics is medicine of children, the definition of children being debatable depending on who you ask. A 17 year-old with a rib fracture is likely to be treated as an adult despite legally being a child. The first rule of paediatrics is that children are not little adult. Do not treat them as such - medicine is different with children and treating them as small adults will annoy and frustrate your consultants.

For the purposes of this website, it is difficult to classify paediatrics so hopefully simply adding paediatric in brackets at the end will suffice. The categories are roughly the same as the adult ones with a few extras and a few taken out:

• Cardiology (Paediatric)