Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

The students should be able to:

-  Communicate with the child and family

-  Obtain clinical data, perform the physical examination, and elaborate a clinical report

-  Implement preventive measures in children and adolescents

-  Promote breast milk feeding and adequate nutrition

-  Advice children, families and the community in the promotion of healthy lifestyles

-  Evaluate the growth, nutrition status and development of children

-  Advice on immunizations and promote adhesion to national guidelines

-  Follow the recommendations of  the Child and Youth Health Book

-  Identify  congenital malformations

-  Take care of the newborn in the delivery room

-  Identify and treat the most frequent neonatal  diseases

-  Prevent, recognize and treat intoxications and accidents

-  Identify and manage the abused child

-  Give basic life support to children

-  Recognize the child with severe disease

-  Have the knowledge of clinical semiology and generic therapeutic principles of frequent and/or serious medical and/or surgical diseases

-  Obtain and interpret the semiology of diseases with surgical implications;

-  Adjust the generic surgical principles to the child with a pathophysiologic approach

-  Integrate the principles of decision-making and the operative chronology in Pediatric Surgery

-  Understand bio psychosocial implications of surgical interventions in children

-  Recognize the conditions for referral in a timely manner

Syllabus:

-       Scope and purpose of Pediatrics

-       Communication skills

-       Clinical history and physical examinations

-       Semiology

-       Nutrition in the first year of life

-       The newborn

-       Neonatal ressuscitation

-       Neonatal jaundice

-       Neonatal sepsis

-       Immunization schedule

-       Neurodevelopment

-       The normal and pathological growth

-       Adolescent

-       Fever in children

-       Exanthematic diseases

-       Nephrourological diseases

-       Respiratory infections

-       Allergy in chidhood

-       Vomiting and diarrhoea

-       Odontopediatrics

-       Cardiac embriology and fetal and perinatal circulation

-       The child with a cardiac murmur

-       Differential diagnosis in the cyanotic children

-       Obesity

-       Ethics in Paediatrics

-       Hemato-oncologic diseases

-       Chronic diseases in children

-       Casualities, trauma and intoxications: prevention and treatment

-       Prescribing in Paediatrics

-       The severely ill child

-       Scope and purpose of Pediatric Surgery

-       The surgical disease in childhood

-       Neonatal surgical conditions

-       Congenital cervical pathology

-       Surgical respiratory distress

-       Abdominal wall and inguino-scrotal conditions

-       Gastrointestinal diseases with surgical implications

-       Genitourinary pathology

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit’s intended learning outcomes.
The syllabus meets the semiology, clinical framework, pathophysiological approach, therapeutic principles, and referral criteria on frequent and/or relevant entities in Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery.