HLTH8301 Indigenous and Remote Clinical Paediatrics 1

Dr Alan Ruben

2015

15 x 50-minute tutorials per semester
1 x 6-hour workshop per semester
1 x 6-month clinical placement per semester

Paediatrics as at completion of medical degree

This topic is the first of two topics that are grounded in the principles of providing culturally appropriate acute child health services and the practicalities of child health care delivery in remote areas. The topic covers four major areas and includes undertaking a neonatal resuscitation course:

The child with diarrhoeal disease and malnutrition
The sick newborn (includes undertaking Neonatal Resuscitation Course)
The child with fever and cough
The child with convulsions

The topic aims to enable the student to effectively:

diagnose and manage the common causes of diarrhoeal disease, malnutrition and failure to thrive.
evaluate and care for a new-born baby.
diagnose and manage a child with cough in the community.
be able to fully manage a convulsing child, beginning at the emergency room to the follow up of the patient.

At the completion of these modules, students will be able to:

Describe the clinical criteria for a diagnosis of the common presentations of diseases of childhood, their designation into the major clinical types, their management and prognosis.
Identify the clinical findings that guide investigation into their aetiology and describe when such investigations are indicated.
Be able to define nutritional status, calculate the nutritional requirements for normal growth for children and put those results in practice
Describe the links between diarrhoeal disease, malnutrition and non-gastrointestinal disease.
Be able to counsel a mother on breastfeeding, weaning with dietary advice for toddlers and older children.
Describe the causes and consequences of low birth weight, prematurity, intrauterine growth retardation and infant growth
Where relevant, be able to implement the use of protocols or standardised management schedules.

Within each main component the student will be expected to discuss examples of traditional beliefs or child rearing practices relevant to the clinical condition.

Key dates and timetable

Timetable details for 2015 are no longer published.

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