The Department of Pediatrics aims to achieve the following:

A. HEALTH CARE

1. To strengthen and improve the effective delivery of appropriate, competent and compassionate care of all pediatric patients.

2. To strive to meet the ideal standards and best practices of pediatric care.

3. To continue developing and establishing new and relevant ambulatory service programs for children.

B. TRAINING AND RESEARCH

1. To make sure residents acquire adequate knowledge in Pediatrics, develop critical thinking and analytical skills, and possess the proper attitudes and conduct.

2. To promote and further strengthen its pursuit for excellence in research

3. To provide continuing medical education, as well as professional and human development programs, for medical and non-medical personnel of the hospital.

Child Development Specialist
Dr. Ma. Ferriza Isaguirre

Pediatric Neurologist
Dr. Gilda Fernandez

Child/Adolescent/Adult Psychiatrist
Dr. Daisy Ann Artuz

Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Melanie Herrera 

Speech Therapist
Davilin G. Quilantang

Child Occupational Therapists
Anya Dizon
Erwin Torres
Mary Ann Roldan
Jomar Tiburcio 
Josef Bareng.

PHILOSOPHY
The Residency Training Program of the Department of Pediatrics of Brokenshire Hospital exists to provide holistic training of residents in clinical Pediatrics based on the prescribed standards of training set by the Phil. Pediatric Society Inc. It seeks to graduate clinicians who are competent and skilled and who will provide quality and compassionate care to the children in communities they choose to serve. This program shall favor trainees whose career direction is to bring their services to communities where they are most needed.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Residency Training Program of the department is a progressive and graduated training program of at least three years duration. Its academic and instructional activities are designed and regularly updated according to the standards set by the Philippine Pediatric Society, Inc. The program is intended to create opportunities for the acquisition of knowledge, the necessary skills and the proper attitudes in dealing with the preventive, promotive and curative aspects of child health care.`

The program is directly under the supervision of the Training Officer of the department with the support of its own Training Committee, as well as, that of the Committee on Continuing Medical Education of the hospital.

The residents-in-training are medical graduates who have passed the Medical Board Licensure Examinations and who have fulfilled the selection criteria set by the department and have passed the entrance requirement prescribed by Brokenshire Hospital.

CORE CURRICULUM
The core curriculum of the training program is based on the levels of care drafted by the Phil. Pediatric Society Specialty Board and likewise, the Hospital Accreditation Board. It is intended to enable the graduates of the program to be certified and accredited by the PPS Specialty Board.

Increasing Pediatric patient census over the past years merited the creation and recent opening of the Pediatric Wing located at the ground level of the hospital. This wing has private, semi-private and ward accommodations. It also houses the Treatment Room/Procedure Room of the city’s first Hemophilia and Bleeding Disorders Treatment Center. This wing also has 2 Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds and a 2-bed Isolation Room for children. In addition, it shares with the Department of Internal Medicine, a 6-bed Hematology–Oncology Room for patients requiring chemotherapy.

The Newborn Care Unit (NCU), which is located at the OB-Gyne Wing, can accommodate up to 15 cribs. It houses the Neonatal Intensive Care Area (NICU), the Observation/Step Down Care Area and the Neonatal Isolation Area. It is equipped with a pediatric ventilator, incubators, radiant warmer and phototherapy units among others. Only high risk newborns are admitted to the NCU.  Brokenshire Hospital, being a “Mother-Baby Friendly Hospital” strongly enforces its policy of rooming-in low-risk normal newborns.

The newly renovated Emergency Room (ER), located at the ground level, has an ORT (Oral Rehydration treatment) section and is equipped with facilities for emergency and ambulatory pediatric care.

SERVICES & PROGRAMS

• Newborn Screening Program
• Neonatal Hearing Screening Program
• Well-Baby Program
• Child and Adolescent Neuro-Developmental (CANDEV) Center

TRAINING PROGRAM

• Residency Training

Newborn Screening Program. The department’s NEWBORN SCREENING PROGRAM, temporarily suspended following the Department of Health’s directive prohibiting the operation of a Newborn Screening Center outside of that operated and accredited by the Department of Health (DOH) and the National Institute of Health, has been made available again after the required arrangements with the said institutions were finalized.

Neonatal Hearing Screening Program. A new program that has been developed and ready for full implementation is the UNIVERSAL HEARING SCREENING PROGRAM for newborns. This program is being undertaken in coordination with the trained otolaryngologists under the Department of Surgery and supported by a civic organization, Quota International.

Well Baby Program. The department’s WELL BABY IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM offers a comprehensive package that includes complete PPS-recommended immunizations, nutrition tips and growth and development monitoring at a very affordable cost, to be paid in 12 monthly installments. The program is partly supported by the Davao City Health Office.

Hepatitis B Birth Dose Program. To prevent the risk of vertical (mother-to-infant) Hepatitis B transmission in the neonate, as well as, prevent early childhood infection and its complications, the Department of Pediatrics implements the HEPATITIS B BIRTH DOSE PROGRAM. All eligible newborns delivered in the hospital, shall receive the first dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine within the first 12 hours of life, regardless of the HepBSAg status of the mother.

Hemophilia and Bleeding Disorder Treatment Center.

Child and Adolescent Neuro-Developmental (CANDEV) Center. Children with developmental, behavioral and neurologic concerns are provided both diagnostic and therapeutic services in a child-friendly, hospital setting at the Child and Adolescent Neuro-Development Center, a multidisciplinary specialty center composed of medical and allied medical specialists.

Inspired by a similar set-up at UP PGH, its establishment locally was proposed and pursued by the incumbent Chairperson of the hospital’s Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Demosthenes R. Albay. A key factor in its inception was the decision of Dr. Ferriza Isaguirre, Mindanao’s first Child Development specialist, to establish her practice in the hospital. From a simple Development Clinic in 1999, it slowly evolved to become a department unit in 2004 with the arrival of medical sub-specialists including the city’s only Speech Pathologist and Child Psychiatrist, and allied medical professionals, thus completing its initial target of required basic services. With the construction of its physical infrastructure, Brokenshire’s CANDEV Center, becomes the only hospital-based Neuro-Dev’t Center outside of Metro Manila.

CANDEV Center aims to address the increasing need to handle and manage developmental, behavioral and neurologic conditions which are among the most important causes of childhood and adolescent morbidity in the present day. The multidisciplinary approach to their evaluation and management results in a more holistic and optimal care of these children with special needs, and provides the convenience of a “one-stop center”.  Presently, the center caters to children of Southern Mindanao, as well as, the neighboring provinces of Surigao, Agusan, Butuan and Zamboanga.

(When the newly reopened Brokenshire Memorial Hospital became a secondary health care facility in 1994, 3 general physicians were employed to serve as hospital residents. This set-up later gave way to a more defined program when the Family Medicine Residency Training program was established a few years later. To help the said department gain accreditation and more importantly, to provide better medical care for its patients, the Department of Pediatrics created a training program modified to meet the requirements of the Phil. Academy of Family Physicians. With the influx of more difficult pediatric cases requiring more specialized care the creation of a formal and structured training program became mandatory. Thus evolved in 2002 the Philippine Pediatric Accredited Residency Training Program.

In February 2004, the department officially applied for a Phase I accreditation with the Philippine Pediatric Society Hospital Accreditation Board (PPS-HAB). The PPS-HAB granted the department a Phase I accreditation valid up to 2006.

Last January 15, 2007 the Phil. Pediatric Society Hospital Accreditation Board officially informed the department of the approval of its application for an upgrade of its accreditation status to Phase II-A/B(Level I) retroactively effective June 2006. With this development, its residency graduates now gain the privilege to take the Phil. Pediatric Society Specialty Board Exams and become accredited members of the prestigious organization of pediatricians. Except for a few, this also puts its training program at par with most of the accredited training hospitals in the country.)

Accredited by the Philippine Pediatric Society Hospital Accreditation Board on January 15, 2007 and given the accreditation status of Phase II-A/B (Level I) retroactively effective June 2006, Residency graduates of Brokenshire Hospital now have the privilege to take the Philippine Pediatric Society Specialty Board Exams and become accredited members of the prestigious organization of pediatricians. This puts its training program at par with most of the accredited training hospitals in the country.