Professional Education

Developmental Pediatrics Subspecialty Residency Program

Program Description

Developmental pediatrics is the branch of medicine concerned with providing highly specialized health care to children of all ages and developmental levels with respect to their development and psychosocial well being.

The specialty aims to foster understanding and promotion of optimal development of children (infants, children and youth) and their families (including other caregivers) through clinical care, education, research and advocacy.

The specialty focuses on developmental trajectories of children with congenital or acquired disorders and/or individual variations in physical, motor, cognitive, sensory and social-emotional development. This discipline also encompasses children’s behavioural responses to those challenges.

Its overall goal is to promote and maintain the developmental and emotional well being of all children and their families, especially those who are most vulnerable.

The specialty promotes preventive strategies, which minimize the prevalence and impact of disorders of development. Developmental pediatrics is concerned with both the individual development profile of the children’s psychosocial and cultural milieu of their lives.

The developmental pediatrician will have a commitment to advancement of the field through education at the undergraduate to postgraduate levels and through continuing education to physicians and allied health professionals. The developmental pediatrician will be dedicated to advancement of the field through research.

The University of Toronto’s developmental pediatric residency program is based at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.

For more information, contact:
Romana Karnetova
Program Assistant
Tel: 416-425-6220 extension 3586
E-Mail: rkarnetova (at) hollandbloorview (dot) ca *(see Note below)

*Note: Copy the above e-mail address into the To field of your e-mail message and reconstruct the e-mail address by removing the spaces and replacing the “at” and “dot” with the proper symbols (@ and .) respectively.

Adapted from Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada: Developmental Pediatrics Standards Document

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