Paediatric medical education: Challenges and new developments

Canadian medical schools have a social accountability to ensure that the knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired by medical students meet the needs of patients and communities (6). This was a key theme of the symposium: "Child health in the 21st century: The role of the paediatrician in an inter-professional environment" (7). Some of its recommendations are aimed at undergraduate medical education programs to ensure that additional subject areas (Table While the educational recommendations are not intended to displace other areas of the current curriculum, a deliberate coordinated approach is needed to ensure that this does not occur.