Continuing Education
Education Calendar - Training
For information on training for staff at The Children's Hospital at Westmead please see the attached Education Calendar 
CHW School-Link Newsletter
The Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) has recently joined the NSW School-Link Initiative, a partnership between the Departments of Education and Training and NSW Health to improve the mental health of children and young people in NSW. CHW will specifically focus on the special needs of children and adolescents with an intellectual disability. Click here to view the inaugural CHW School-Link newsletter which contains professional development opportunities on the mental health of children and adolescents with an intellectual disability.
For more details about this program, please contact: schoollink@chw.edu.au
FRACP Lectures
Click here to view the FRACP lectures.
Paediatric Obesity Update 2013
Date: Friday 28th June 2013
Venue: Lorimer Dods Lecture Theatre, Level 4, Education Centre
The Paediatric Obesity Update is a half day course for General Practitioners and General Paediatricians. The course consists of a program covering several general and specialised topics in relation to child and adolescent obesity to update knowledge and skills in this area for the general practitioner and paediatrician.
Click here to view the brochure.
Paediatric Postgraduate Weekend for General Practitioners
Date: Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th August, 2013
Where: The Children's Hospital Westmead, Lorimer Dods Lecture Theatre
The course has a program of a wide variety of topics to update knowledge and skills in paediatrics for the General Practitioner.
The focus is to highlight current advances in research and practice and to cover changes in the management of paediatric problems.
Paediatric Update 2013
Date: Thursday 14th and Friday 15th November, 2013
Where: The Children's Hospital Westmead, Education Centre, Lorimer Dods Lecture Theatre.
Diploma in Child Health
The Diploma in Child Health (DCH) was developed in 1992 in order to meet the demands of the medical community and the resident staff of the Hospital for a course in primary care paediatrics. The course provides resident staff with a focus for learning and formal recognition of a short period of paediatric training. The Diploma is also suitable for doctors in general practice or training in other areas of medicine who wish to improve their paediatric knowledge. The course is open to medical practitioners registered or registrable in Australia who have 6 months experience in clinical paediatric medicine or its equivalent. Community or general practice paediatrics is considered as experience (see enquiry information through the above link). It is also open to GP registrars who are concurrently doing their hospital paediatric term. The experience may be concurrent with the course as a junior medical officer on the staff of The Children's Hospital at Westmead.
DCH has been offered in Hong Kong as a distance education site for the first time in 2005. There are specific criteria for admission to the DCH course in Hong Kong. For further information contact DipCH@chw.edu.au
University Research and Education
The University of Sydney Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health is involved with:
- teaching medical students;
- supervising postgraduate research students;
- working cooperatively with the Hospital in the development of research activities;
- postgraduate training and education.
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