The three-year post-residency fellowship training program in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) is an interdisciplinary program offered by the Institute of Pediatrics of The Medical City (TMC) to provide in-depth training in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.  After having established the Center for Developmental Pediatrics in October 2009, the DBP fellowship training program was started in 2013 with the encouragement and support of then Chair, Dr. Romeo Santos, who inspired Dr. Stella Manalo, Dr. Ma. Theresa Arranz-Lim, Dr. Jacqueline Navarro, and Dr. Lourdes Tanchanco to initiate the program.  Dr. Stella Manalo was appointed as the head of the section, and Dr. Lourdes Bernadette Tanchanco assumed the role of the first training officer.  Their leadership and dedication have been instrumental in shaping the success of the program into what it has become today. To date, the program has produced several graduates who are board certified by the Philippine Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (PSDBP) serving families in Metro Manila, Pampanga, Bicol, Lanao del Norte, Davao, Tarlac, Quezon province, Bulacan, Laguna, Nueva Ecija and Bacolod.

 

The objective of the program is to produce graduates who will have mastery of the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to be a competent developmental and behavioral pediatrician with a heightened self-awareness to lead and influence stakeholders in the field in line with the unique patient partnership service paradigm of The Medical City. 

 

The program includes:

• Clinical observation and preceptorship by Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric consultants

• Mastery in administration and interpretation of several developmental screening and developmental assessment tools

• Supervised and hands-on developmental assessment and multidisciplinary management of children with neurodevelopmental disorders and other chronic diseases

• Rotations in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Genetics, Pediatric Neurology, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, ABA therapy, Educational therapy and Clinical Psychology

• International Clinical Observership

• Research training and opportunities

• Attendance to conferences, seminars and workshops

• Weekly department and section conferences, lectures and book club