The objective of pediatrics is to decrease the mortality rates among infants and children, control dissemination of infectious diseases and treat children and teenagers with chronic disorders, and lead healthy child raising for the society.

In addition to the treatment of ill children, the branch also deals with the long-term conditions affecting the quality of life, disability and survival. Pediatricians are the doctors dealing with this branch of medicine. Following 6-year medical education, additional 4-year specialty education in infant, child and teenager diseases, follow-up of infant, child development is required to be pediatrician.