Community Child Health

Core positions

24 months

In community child health, at least

Developmental and behavioural

12 months

At least, within core training

Non-core positionsA rotation outside the areas the program requires. It counts toward training time only up to the program's limit.

12 months

Most, in 2 different prospectively approved positions

In Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand

24 months

At least, of the 3 years

Child development training

6 months

Full-time equivalent in Australia, if not done in Basic Training, needed for Fellowship

• Accredited positionsEach position is accredited on its own, for core or non-core time, and core training counts only in an accredited position. Each position's months and kinds of training are in the accredited sites list
• Aotearoa New ZealandStarship and Kidz First children's hospitals, Te Wao Nui Child Health Service, Waikato Child Development Centre, Te Rito o Rongokako, and Christchurch, Dunedin, Hutt Valley, Rotorua, Taranaki and Whangārei hospitals
• Aotearoa New Zealand, non-coreGisborne Hospital, Nelson Marlborough Health, Tū Māia and the Kidz First Centre for Youth Health
• In the territoryCanberra Health Services' community paediatrics and Child at Risk Health Unit, and for non-core trainingA rotation outside the areas the program requires. It counts toward training time only up to the program's limit., Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

What every accredited community child health setting must give you

Orientation

Each rotation

To each new setting and rotation, with an induction to the training program

Supervisors

2

Each rotation

Research project supervisor

1

Nominated before specialty consolidation, recommended

Child protection course

1

A recognised course

Child protection position

3 months

Accredited, or 15 learning and 10 observation capturesA work-based assessment in which an assessor watches you at work and gives feedback against your learning goals. on child maltreatment instead

Child population health

6 months

In an accredited position, or learning activities instead

Divisional examinations

2

Written and Clinical, passed in Basic Training before Advanced Training

Learning capturesA work-based assessment in which you record and reflect on a learning activity, linked to your learning goals.

12

Each phase, at least one a month

Observation capturesA work-based assessment in which an assessor watches you at work and gives feedback against your learning goals.

12

Each phase, at least one a month

Progress reportsYour own and your supervisors' assessment of your progress against the learning goals over a period of training.

4

Each phase, at least one every 3 months

Rotation plansA plan for each rotation of how you will cover your learning goals there, approved by your supervisors.

1

For each rotation, at its start

Research project

1

Before the end of training, submitted by the end of specialty consolidation, recommended

Tutorial series

40 hours

In community child health, over 12 months, by the end of training

Supervisor workshops

3

Free, by the end of training

Part-time training

0.2

Full-time equivalent, at least

Interruption

12 months

Continuous, with no extra training required

Time limit

8 years

To complete the program