Emergency Medicine
Division of Emergency Medicine
Our Division
The Division for Emergency Medicine at the BC Children’s Hospital provides 24/7 care to infants, children and youth with urgent and emergent care. We look after medical and surgical conditions as well as trauma. All patients are accepted in the emergency department from birth through their 17th birthday, for acute illness and those with chronic illnesses requiring pediatric expertise.
The Emergency Department is staffed by pediatricians who have completed a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship. We pride in interdisciplinary approach to children in need of urgent care, and the physicians are working closely with the Divisional nurses, respiratory therapists, child-life specialists, social workers and administrative staff.
As the only specialty Pediatric Emergency Department in the Province of British Columbia we serve almost 40,000 children every year, and are the only Pediatric Trauma Center in the Province.
Our international teaching program includes Medical Students, Residents and Fellows from the University of British Columbia and from Universities in other parts of Canada and other countries. Our Fellowship program allows sub-specialty training for 7 Pediatric-Emergency Fellows that will shape the future of Pediatric Emergency Medicine in Canada. Our teaching program also includes a knowledge translation component, allowing us to provide hundreds of community practitioners further training and updates in pediatric acute care.
The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Program focus on clinical research in the areas of pain and sedation, fever, gastroenteritis and trauma. We work in collaboration with other pediatric centers in Canada and the US and allow each Fellow to explore clinical research during their training.
Following the theme “children are not small adults” we strive to develop and maintain the best clinical care for children in our Emergency Department, but also for children all around British Columbia through Clinical Practice Guidelines and collaborations with Child Health BC and community health providers.
Dr Ran D. Goldman
Division Head and Medical Director
About the Division / Education / Research / Faculty and Staff