Child Health and Diseases

HISTORY

Süleyman Demirel University and its School of Medicine were established in 1992.  Academic education has started at 1993.
Our Department of Child Health and Diseases, which was established by Professor Doctor Ahmet Rifat ÖRMECİ on 01.04.1994, started to provide education/training and patient services in the same year. The service, which was given in the old Chest Diseases Hospital from 1994 to 2001, continues in the existing new building as of 01.01.2001. Currently, 9 faculty members, 17 research assistant doctors, 42 nurses, 15 assistant personnel and 6 medical secretaries are working in our department.

Since its establishment, it has contributed to the training of 45 specialist physicians in the field of Pediatric Health and Diseases, and still trains 21 physicians as specialists and 2 pediatricians as minor specialists, ensuring the production of quality health care and scientific studies.

CAPACITY

Our Department has 6 polyclinics and 1 Pediatric Emergency Polyclinic.

We have 4 services in our clinic:
Neonatal Intensive Care Service (20 incubators, 5 open beds, 15 mechanical ventilators, 5 high-frequency mechanical ventilators, 25 bedside monitors)
Pediatric Intensive Care Service (6 beds, 6 mechanical ventilators, 6 bedside monitors)
Child Service (27 beds, 7 bedside monitors)
Pediatric Emergency Service (4 beds, 2 bedside monitors)

In the Videoendoscopy Unit of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Department, around 500 endoscopy/colonoscopy procedures are performed annually.
Ultrasonographic imaging and invasive procedures of Pediatric Endocrinology patients are performed in the laboratory of the same department under the supervision of the relevant faculty member. Treatment and education services are provided on childhood diabetes, and insulin infusion pump applications are made. Diagnosis and treatment services are also provided for adolescent diseases.
 

EDUCATION OF RESIDENTS

Educational duration of residents is four years. Four rotations, one month of each, in different non-pediatric departments are compulsory: Gynecology and Obstetrics, Dermatology, Pediatric Surgery, and Pediatric Psychiatry.

In addition to these, rotations are present in different pediatric disciplines: general pediatrics, gastroenterology, hematology-oncology, nephrology, endocrine, and neonatology.

 Academic meetings are held for three days of a week (article presentation at every Tuesday, seminar/lecture at every Wednesday and problematic inpatient clinic case presentations at every Thursday) at 01:00-02:00 pm.

DIVISIONS

General Pediatrics
Pediatric Endocrinology
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatric Hemato-oncology
Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Neonatology
 FACILITIES

·         Children’s inpatient clinic

·         Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

·         Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

·         Sixout-patient clinics

·         EmergencyService for Children

 

Contact: +90 246 211 91 74 - 211 91 95