Editing Pediatrics (section)

==Training of pediatricians==
{{Infobox occupation
| name= Pediatrics
| image= [[File:Rod of Asclepius2.svg|60px]]
| caption=
| official_names=
* Pediatrician
* Paediatrician
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| type= [[Specialty (medicine)|Specialty]]
| activity_sector= [[Medicine]]
| competencies=
| formation=
* [[Doctor of Medicine]]
* [[Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine]]
* [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery]] (MBBS/MBChB)
| employment_field= [[Hospital]]s, [[Clinic]]s
| related_occupation=
}}

The training of pediatricians varies considerably across the world.  Depending on jurisdiction and university, a medical degree course may be either undergraduate-entry or graduate-entry. The former commonly takes five or six years and has been usual in the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]]. Entrants to graduate-entry courses (as in the US), usually lasting four or five years, have previously completed a three- or four-year university degree, commonly but by no means always in sciences. Medical graduates hold a degree specific to the country and university in and from which they graduated. This degree qualifies that medical practitioner to become licensed or registered under the laws of that particular country, and sometimes of several countries, subject to requirements for "[[medical intern|internship]]" or "conditional registration".

Pediatricians must undertake further training in their chosen field. This may take from four to eleven or more years depending on jurisdiction and the degree of specialization.

In the United States,  a medical school graduate wishing to specialize in pediatrics must undergo a three-year residency composed of outpatient, inpatient, and critical care rotations. Subspecialties within pediatrics require further training in the form of 3-year fellowships. Subspecialties include critical care, gastroenterology, neurology, infectious disease, hematology/oncology, rheumatology, pulmonology, child abuse, emergency medicine, endocrinology, neonatology, and others.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CoPS |url=http://www.pedsubs.org/subDes/index.cfm |website=www.pedsubs.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130918013152/http://www.pedsubs.org/SubDes/index.cfm |archive-date=2013-09-18 |access-date=2015-08-14}}</ref>

In most jurisdictions, entry-level degrees are common to all branches of the medical profession, but in some jurisdictions, specialization in pediatrics may begin before completion of this degree. In some jurisdictions, pediatric training is begun immediately following the completion of entry-level training. In other jurisdictions, junior medical doctors must undertake generalist (unstreamed) training for a number of years before commencing pediatric (or any other) [[Specialty (medicine)|specialization]]. Specialist training is often largely under the control of '''pediatric organizations'' (see below) rather than universities and depends on the jurisdiction.