Pediatric Specialist Training Program

Overall Goal

Program aimed at the post-graduate training of specialists in general pediatrics, through practical, classroom and research activities. It aims to provide them with knowledge and skills that enable them to develop and carry out a comprehensive care of children at an individual or community level from the newborn period to adolescence, from a healing, preventive, and health promotion perspective with a marked social perspective and a solid scientific base.

Specific Goals

• Hospital General Pediatrics: 9 months duration. Infants 6 months duration, Childhood 3 months duration. During their internship for Hospital General Pediatrics, interns must develop:

General Traits:

• The necessary skills for a general and specific physical examination of systems and organs as an essential element of an initial diagnosis that acts as a basis for the monitoring and subsequent follow-up of the patient.
• The skills to elaborate a remote and current anamnesis that serves the purposes of proposing a diagnosis and directing initial laboratory study based on collected evidence.
• The ability to develop diagnosis hypotheses using the collected information, and to request testing based on a careful clinical rationale.
• The ability to identify patients who will require in-hospital care, considering not only medical but also social and environmental elements.
• The ability to know the caretaking procedures children with surgical pathologies require both before and after the intervention.
• The skills and abilities to elaborate differential diagnoses of the most frequent pathologies.
• The ability to diagnose and treat acute decompensation in patients with chronic pathologies such as: bronchial asthma, cystic fibrosis, congenital heart disease, metabolic diseases, chronic renal failure, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy, among others.
• The ability to properly handle the different elements involved in terminal patient care.
• The ability to interact with families and institutions outside the health field.
• The ability to know, define and prevent in-hospital infections.
• The ability to develop teamwork skills with a multidisciplinary team consisting of kinesiologists, nurses, psychologists, social workers, medical technologists, nutritionists, paramedical technicians, and auxiliary assistants.
• The ability to apply elements that Clinical Management involves regarding decision-making for patient management, with a basis in evidence-based pediatrics and the best cost-benefit ratio.

• To recognize the essential elements of pediatrics, including ethical principles and legal responsibilities.
• To understand the importance of certain principles for the benefit of children, society, and pediatrics.
• To know how to apply social justice to pediatric practice: all children are equal to us. When they have no family, we will be their family. We will also be their defendants.
• To develop a professional practice with respect for children and their family environment’s beliefs and culture.
• To recognize your own limitations and the need to maintain and update your professional competence in pediatrics. Staying up to date is an ethical duty to provide children with the best possible treatment to alleviate their suffering.
• To develop pediatric practice respectfully alongside all members of the health team. To treat teachers with deference.

Pediatrics, neonatology, and children health center in Antofagasta’s Clinical Regional Hospital, its attached specialty practice, and Primary Healthcare Centers. According to availability and the student’s choices, this may be complemented with internships in other training centers.

Fees

Ministerial Scholarships:

• Annual Tuition Fee: $7.372.142 CLP
• Registration Fee: $300.000 CLP

Self-financed, teaching grants, and others:

• Annual Tuition Fee: $6.500.000 CLP
• Registration Fee: $300.000 CLP

Student quota

• 4 spots per period.

• Preferably under 35 years of age. Attach updated original birth certificate or a notarized copy of ID card.
• Physician diploma from a local or foreign university. If you are a national doctor with studies abroad, you will need to bring revalidation documents. If you are a foreign doctor, you must have all your documents legalized in Chile and provide all necessary documentation to verify the authenticity of the certificates.
  National Medical Qualification.
• Certificate of NATIONAL MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE EXAMINATION (EUNACOM).
• Two Letters of Recommendation from Academics (in a closed envelope addressed to the Program’s Director). The Board may request further information.
• Personal Interview.
• Physical and Mental Health compatible with the program’s requirements. Attach a Health Certificate.
• Other applicants must attach work experience certificates with the name and phone number of their last employer to corroborate their background if necessary. Those who have worked in the Public Sector must present a Certificate of their last Qualification and service record.
• Fill Application Form (request via e-mail to ximena.sanchez@uantof.cl)

Selection Process

Must be carried out through a public competition that allows for the selection of the highest-scoring graduates, and a Joint Commission must be created (with representatives of the Faculty of Medicine and Odontology and the Pediatric Service) to carry out the process in accordance with instructions coming from the Dean. A personal interview will be included.

The Antofagasta Health Service must open at least one spot a year to meet the demand for specialists in the region’s public establishments.

Application dates

Ministerial competitions are governed by the calendar published by MINSAL.

Application and selection process contact

Director: Dr. Antonio Cárdenas Tadich.
Mail: dr_cardenas2000@yahoo.es
Phone: 55-2637082

Postgraduate Unit Secretary: Ximena Sánchez Aracena.
Mail: ximena.sanchez@uantof.cl
Phone: 55-2637082

Program Start Date

• April each year.