• Program Contacts
• Teaching Facilities
• Residency Training Objectives
• Program Description
• Application to Program
• Subspecialty Training Program
• Current Residents
• Alumni

The IWK Health Centre is the main location for the Dalhousie University pediatric residency program. Our residency program is extremely competitive and we attract residents from across the country. We provide all four years of training for the resident to be eligible for The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Fellowship Examinations. We accept four or five first-year residents through the Canadian Resident Matching Service every year. As well, we will often have one or two excellent international medical graduates in each year of training. Residents complete their four years of General Pediatrics or may do three years in General Pediatrics and then start their subspecialty training.

We are committed to giving residents a well rounded training in General Pediatrics. As well as rotations through the pediatric inpatient unit, NICU, PICU, and Emergency Medicine, our residents also do mandatory rotations in Community Pediatrics as well as at the Saint John Regional Hospital for a general consultant pediatric inpatient and outpatient experience. Residents have selectives each year to do varying pediatric subspecialties and, as well, have elective time that they can take at other centres if they wish. All residents do mandatory rotations in Child Protection as well as Developmental Pediatrics.