PEDIATRICS Vol. 43 No. 2 February 1969, pp. 306
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Childhood Ecology and Child Development—As Training for Pediatric Practice

H. E. Thelander M.D.1

1 3641 California Street San Francisco, California

At the meeting of the Child Development Section of the Academy of Pediatrics in October 1968, one of the physicians asked why medical schools and pediatric departments failed to prepare pediatricians for the private practice of their specialty. When I was chief of the department of Children's Hospital in San Francisco, two special exercises were introduced to remedy this deficiency.

One of these was a weekly seminar in childhood ecology. It started in July of each year with discussion of fetology, perinatal problems, and the newborn; from there on we "grew up," as it were, with the child during the year, and by June we were discussing the adolescents.