Pediatrics (clinical practice)

Code:

MI604

Acronym:

PED

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2014/2015 - SP

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Departamento de 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	286	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina 2007	6	-	7	75	189
		Mestrado Integrado em Medicina- Plano oficial 2013 (Reforma Curricular)	6	-	7	75	189

Teaching language

Portuguese

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.

Learning outcomes and competences

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.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Syllabus:

Students will be integrated in clinical activities in the nursery, ambulatory and urgencies rooms of Paediatric Departments.

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

-   Currentproblems 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

Robert Kliegman, Karen Marcdante, Hal Jenson Richard Behrman (esd).; Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics. , Elsevier saunders 6th Edition , 2010

Complementary Bibliography

Beheram and Vaughan eds. ; Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics , Saunders company. 19th edition, Philadelphia., 2008
João M Videira Amaral. ; Tratado de Clínica Pediatra. , oão M Videira Amaral. Lisboa, 2008. ISBN: ISBN 978-989-20-1277-3
Lissauer T, Clayden G. ; Illustrated textbook of Paediatrics, Mosby, Edinburgh, Third Edition, 2007
o Guerra A, Rêgo C, Silva D, Cordeiro Ferreira G, Mansilha H, Antunes H e Ferreira R - Comissão de Nutrição da SPP; Alimentação e nutrição do lactente. , Acta Ped Port 2012;43(Supl II):S17-S34., 2012
Long S, Pickering LK & Prober C.; Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 4th Edition. , 2012

Teaching methods and learning activities

The 75 hours of contact will be shared by clinical activity in the nursery, ambulatory and emergency service.

Training period corresponds to 5 weeks (7 ECTS) (total of 189 hours). During that period students will have clinical activity in Centro Hospitalar de São João or in any of their affiliated Hospitals.

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

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	50,00
Prova oral	50,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation will include a distributed evaluation (tutor responsibility) and a discussion of a clinical report at the end of the training period. Each of these evaluations will contribute with 50% for the final classification.