Talk:Pediatrics

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[edit] Spelling

Spelling: pediatrics. This is a fully acceptable, British spelling of pediatrics. However, as per wikipedia policy, the spelling throughout an article should remain consistant. Policy gives no preference for British or American spellings. Given that this article's title is Pediatrics, it makes little sense to use the British spelling throught the article. Of course, it makes sense to mention the spelling and to keep the British spelling where used as part of an organization's name. Rklawton 16:07, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

More on pediatrics versus paediatrics

There's a slight semantic difference associated with the difference in spelling. In the USA, a pediatrician (US spelling)is a primary care physician who specializes in children. A similar situation exists in Germany. In UK and the Commonwealth generally, a paediatrician (British spellling) is a specialist physician not in primary general practice, sees patients who are either urgently admitted to hospital or who are referred by GPs, and often has had longer post-graduate training in child health than a primary care pediatrician. A paediatrician in this sense could fairly be described as an internist subspecializing in infants & children. In Australia, paediatricians (like me) are fellows of a college of physicians, which has adult & paediatric sections. This was the situation in the UK till the late 1990s, when the specialist paediatricians split off to form thier own college.

I am considering editing the article to this effect. Any comments?

--DavidB 02:57, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Major edit: I rearranged the existing material into sections, made the edit foreshadowed above, and added a bit extra to history.

More work needed, especially in sections 1 and 2, plus more references needed.

--DavidB 08:40, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Academic Training Section

Renamed section - previously just 'education' (which at ifrst I thought to mean paediatrics within education, rather than academic training/requirements)

Also, it's solely about the US requirements and standards, I don;t know enough to update it myself, but it should be flagged as such.--Cooper-42 14:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

The first note on this discussion page should read consistent where it says 'consistant'.

sorry, παιδι means "child" not "boy" changed

What type of tasks do pediatricians perform? Please answer my question as soon as friday 4/20/07. Bhavana101 01:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC) bhavana101

[edit] history section

I am deleting a reference to 'jasmine brown', said to be a famous pediatrician, as I can't find any reference to her.

--DavidB 21:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC) -- this ie cool —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.161.11 (talk) 20:30, 16 April 2008 (UTC)