The curriculum standards are summarised as 17 learning goals. The learning goals articulate what trainees need to be, do and know, and are assessed throughout training.

BE
  1. Professional behaviours
DO
  1. Team leadership
  2. Supervision and teaching
  3. Quality improvement
  4. Clinical assessment – essential general paediatrics
  5. Clinical management – essential general paediatrics
  6. Clinical assessment and management – neonatal and perinatal medicine
  7. Clinical assessment and management – adolescent and young adult medicine
  8. Clinical assessment and management – child safety and maltreatment
  9. Clinical assessment and management – developmental and behavioural paediatrics
KNOW
  1. Acute care and procedures
  2. Communication with patients, families, and health professionals
  3. Promote improved outcomes in child and adolescent health and development
  4. Regional, rural, and remote paediatric care
  5. Essential general paediatrics
  6. Neonatal and perinatal medicine
  7. Acute care
  8. Developmental and behavioural paediatrics
  9. Adolescent and young adult medicine
  10. Child safety and maltreatment
  11. Regional, rural, and remote paediatrics
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