Pediatrics (clinical practice)

Code:

MI625

Acronym:

PED

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2017/2018 - SP (of 11-09-2017 to 27-07-2018)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Departamento de Ginecologia-Obstetrícia e Pediatria
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	21	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina- Plano oficial 2013 (Reforma Curricular)	6	-	6	57	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

General objectives: includes knowledge, attitudes and skills which allow the student to provide child health-care in a familial and social environment.

Specific objectives: the student must consolidate knowledge about normal child: growth and development; familial, social and school integration; nutritional needs; prevention by vaccination; appropriate heath- life style, social child protection and health-care network.

Students must learn to diagnose and to treat common child diseases; to screen and guide rare diseases beyond their competences; to provide health-care in urgent situation; to recognize the disease impact on the child and his family.

In summary, the student must have knowledge and skills in order:

To communicate with patients, their families and other health professionals

To perform clinical child and adolescent examination

To appropriately decide about subsidiary exams

To discuss diagnosis hypothesis

To perform current treatment techniques

To make appropriate therapeutic decisions

To follow-up the child concerning pathologies and therapeutic decisions

To bear always in mind ethics behavior.

Learning outcomes and competences

The syllabus meets the semiology, clinical framework, pathophysiological approach, therapeutic principles, and referral criteria on frequent and/or relevant entities in Pediatrics.

Syllabus will also allow a better knowledge of healthy children and adolescents and also a better ability in preventive medicine practice.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Students will be integrated in clinical activities in the nursery, ambulatory and urgencies rooms of Pediatrics Departments. They will also participate in activities in health-centers in order to achieve a better knowledge of healthy children and adolescents (and of their family and community integration) and also to achieve a better preventive medicine practice (vaccination and intervention in different health areas in the local schools network).

In daily clinical practice the student must integrate knowledge, attitudes and skills acquired in the previous year (5^th year of the course) with those of basic and clinical disciplines closely related, particularly concerning:

• Prevention
• Infections
• Current problems in Pediatrics
• Pathologic growth
• Cardiac diseases
• Diseases of the newborn
• Gastrointestinal diseases
• Genetics diseases
• Renal diseases
• Lung diseases
• Abnormal behavior
• Blood diseases
• Basic support of pediatric life
• Severely ill child

Mandatory literature

Beheram and Vaughan eds; o Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics - . Saunders company. 19th edition, Philadelphia, 2017.
Robert Kliegman, Karen Marcdante, Hal Jenson Richard Behrman (esd). ; Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics. Elsevier saunders 7th Edition 2017.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching methodologies offer the opportunities for the learning of competences (knowledge, attitudes and skills) that enable the basic clinical performance in the field of pediatrics.  

The most effective and coherent way in order to achieve the learning outcomes of students is by the integration in clinical activities in the nursery, ambulatory and urgencies rooms of Paediatric Department. This will allow students to learn how to diagnose and to treat common child diseases and to screen and guide rare diseases beyond their competences.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Prova oral	50,00
Trabalho de campo	50,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Seminars - 6 hours

Clerkships - 45 hours

Tutorials – 6 hours

 

The 57 hours of contact will be shared by clinical activity in the nursery, ambulatory and urgencies room.

Training period corresponds to 4 weeks (6 ECTS). Three weeks will be spent in Centro Hospitalar de São João or in any of their affiliated Hospitals and one week in a Health Centre.

Each student will report in a notebook all their clinical activities and skills which must be confirmed by the respective tutor.

Evaluation will include a distributed evaluation (tutor responsibility) and a discussion of a clinical report at the end of the training period.