A rural rotation is offered Iqaluit on Baffin Island. The regularly scheduled teaching sessions include protected academic time, medical grand rounds and chief of service rounds. The Montreal Children's Hospital has provided excellence in care to children for more than 90 years. It is a busy tertiary care hospital with 85,000 visits to the emergency department, over 8,000 admissions, and 121,000 outpatient visits per year. The faculty is composed of general pediatricians and a full complement of subspecialists.
Fellowship programs are available in all subspecialties.
Finally, the Montreal Children's Hospital has a history of providing a truly multicultural environment for our patients and staff. The hospital has won national awards for their efforts. This receptive environment has allowed us to care for children from all over the world with a variety of medical and surgical problems. The Department of Pediatrics has initiated a two-year clinical academic fellowship program, in addition to the Allan Ross Academic Fellowship program. Applicants apply after having completed the equivalent of R2 or R3 level of training in Pediatrics at the time they assume the fellowship, in one of the Pediatric Specialties or Subspecialties.