Pediatricians review patients' medical histories and examine patients to evaluate their symptoms. Then they prescribe medications or recommend dietary and activity programs. They also administer immunizations or other preventive health measures. Pediatricians treat many children from birth through teens. They monitor patients for mental and physical growth and development.
Pediatricians devote some of their time to educating parents and children about preventing illness.
In addition, they sometimes must evaluate children for behavioral problems. Pediatricians is a specialty of Physicians . For more information, see the Physicians occupation. Pediatricians is in the Health Services Career Cluster.