King Abdullah Specialized Children's Hospital

Experience: A rich rotation that teaches how to approach rheumatological disease in children, communicate with families, work in a team, write notes and perform examinations. The team was helpful and gave constructive feedback.

Advantages: Consultants offered scheduled case-teaching sessions, and fellows helped interested interns participate in clinics. Working hours can vary; the usual workload may include full-day clinics, inpatient care, consultations and day-care coverage. There is a teaching meeting every Sunday.

Disadvantages: The content may feel advanced for someone seeking only a general overview.

Tips: Ask for feedback, attend teaching sessions, volunteer to follow patients or join a clinic, help the team and arrive early.

Experience: This rotation covers general paediatrics, Down syndrome and congenital-disease clinics. Morning clinics run from 8 to 12 and afternoon clinics from 12:30 to 3:30. Interns may initially be attached to a resident, but when no resident is available they may run a clinic of 3–6 patients as resident cover.

Advantages: Clinic work only, with no inpatient service. Cases are generally straightforward, hours are fixed, and there are useful opportunities to learn without full-day clinics.

Disadvantages: The Down syndrome clinic can be difficult to keep up with when initial instructions are limited. There are also three on-calls with general paediatrics.

Tips: Clarify your system access and expected clinic responsibilities at the start of the rotation.

Experience: In general the specialty is based on your own willingness to work ( meaning if you wanna study or have something to be done you can not attend and do your work) however, the specialty itself is kinda simple so you would have inpatient, outpatient, and consultation those three would be distributed through the mnth so 1st week would be inpatient next week outpatient and so on. The dr are amazing they would let you do what ever you wish meaning if you wanna take patients you can do, but if you wanna observe this is also valid. There is no attendance. Butttt preferably attend to the consultant that you wanna be evaluated by since they do see you and it does make a difference in the score.

Advantages: No attendance, extremely nice drs, there is time to study, only one morning meeting on sun

Experience: On Team B, workload may become heavier when consultant coverage is reduced. The team was respectful and fellows and residents led teaching sessions.

Advantages: Exposure to rare and complex congenital cases, with opportunities for teaching and research. On lighter days, interns may attend rounds and return later to reassess an assigned patient.

Disadvantages: Work starts around 6:45–7:30 AM and may finish between 3 and 5 PM. On-call work includes weekday and weekend shifts arranged among interns. Clinic and operating-room days leave little time to study.

Tips: Present cases in the Thursday teaching round and during morning rounds, and be proactive during on-calls.

Experience: Very engaging environment, inpatient they will assign you patients to present during the round. Clinic which is the most place you will learn from! they will let you to see patients on your own room ( history , examination, writing notes) then the consultant will come and you are going to present the case usually the consultant will repeat some questions and do the examination again, then will tell you the plan to write on the note (we can’t order medications or do referrals so there is a doctor on the clinic area only for orders which you will tell him/her the orders after each patient)

Advantages: Very respectful and nice

Disadvantages: In comparison to others it has a long working hours most of the days from 8am to 4pm, and sometimes the clinic is so busy and you would see around 6-8 patients, but they understand that you are an intern and will let you take your time.

التجربة: الروتيشن خفيف، ولا يطلب من المتدربين كتابة نوتات أو متابعة مرضى؛ الدور غالبًا بالملاحظة، وقد توجد أيام راحة حسب التغطية.

الإيجابيات: التعامل مع الأطفال جميل، والفريق لطيف ومتعاون.

النصائح: استغل الوقت في الملاحظة واطلب المشاركة إذا كنت مهتمًا بالتخصص.