Starting Anew: Returning to the Pediatric Emergency Department as the First and Only Trained Pediatric Emergency Medicine Specialist - Barnett, Peter; Stocker, Sergio (Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2012)
Formal pediatric emergency medicine training did not exist in Australia in the late 1980s, so I ventured overseas to gain experience and knowledge from the then leaders in the field. I completed my fellowship and returned to an emergency department (ED) in Australia as the only pediatric emergency medicine-trained attending. This article describes my experiences in transforming an ED run solely by residents into one with now 14 full-time consultants and our own fellows. Imbedded in this story is the experience of one of our first fellows who came from Switzerland, where even emergency medicine was not yet a recognized specialty. On his return home, he too transformed his ED. © 2012.
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