paediatrics

Paediatric electives...which is better, tertiary (children's hospital) or a community hospital with a paediatrics ward? I've heard you can't do much in tertiary hospitals since there are a lot of residents and fellows taking over cases, but not so in community hospitals. Thoughts?

Hiya all, While doing some research on conjoined twin separating surgery I noticed that a few of the peds surgeons who did conj. twins sep. have training/history in trauma/critical care surgery. Is this just a coincidence? I presume it is, but curious is there is a correlation. Dr. Steven...

Does anyone know/have a reasonable guess as to why children with congenital heart disease eg VSD tend to get more chest infections?