Pediatric Clinic

Code:

MI526

Acronym:

CLPED

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S (of 09-09-2019 to 09-02-2020)

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	130	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina- Plano oficial 2013 (Reforma Curricular)	5	-	9	85	243

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

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

Learning outcomes and competences

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit’s intended learning outcomes.
The teaching methodologies offer the opportunities for the learning of competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) that enable the basic clinical performance in the field of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery.  They allow students to learn the attitudes and skills that will be developed during the 6^th year of Pediatrics.

Working method

Presencial

Program

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
• Anemia in Pediatrics
• Ethics in Paediatrics
• Hemato-oncologic diseases
• Chronic diseases in children
• Casualities, trauma and intoxications: prevention and treatment
• Seizures in chlidren
• 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
• Psycho-emotional factors in childhood and adolescence
• Developmental Centered Care

Mandatory literature

Lissauer T, Clayden G. (ed),; Illustrated textbook of Paediatrics., Mosby, Edinburgh, 5th Edition, . ISBN: (ISBN: 978-0-7234-3871-7).
Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking. Lynn S. Bickley (ed), Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 11th ed, 2017 ; Lynn S. Bickley (ed);. ISBN: (ISBN-13: 978-1609137625).
Karen J Marcdante, Robert M. Kliegman (ed) ; ; Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics.Elsevier. 7th ed. 2015. . ISBN: (ISBN-13: 978-1455759804)
Myung K. Park (ed); ; Pediatric Cardiology for practitioners. , Mosby 6th edition. 2014. . ISBN: (ISBN: 9780323169516)
Mhairi G MacDonald, Mary M. K. Seshia. (ed);; Avery's Neonatology: Pathophysiology and Management of the Newborn. Wolters Kluwer, 7th ed. 2016.. ISBN: (ISBN-13: 978-14511926812017).
João M Videira Amaral (ed); , Lisboa 2008 (ISBN 978-989-20-1277-3). ; Tratado de Clínica Pediatra.
Ladd AP, Rescorla FJ, Grosfeld JL (ed),; ; Handbook of Pediatric Surgical Patient Care. World Scientific Pub Co, 2014.
Thomas DFM, Duffy PG, Rickwood AMK (ed); ; Essentials of Paediatric Urology., 2nd ed, Informa UK, 2008
Holcomb III GW, Murphy JP, Ostlie DJ (ed); ; Ashcraft’s Pediatric Surgery., 6th ed. Saunders Elsevier, 2014.

Teaching methods and learning activities

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.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	10,00
Participação presencial	5,00
Teste	85,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Estudo autónomo	98,00
Frequência das aulas	85,00
Realização de Estágio	30,00
Total:	243,00

Eligibility for exams

The frequency of the Course Unit is obtained by the student who completes at least 75% of the practical classes and theoretical-practical

With regard to absences, students may not exceed the following number of absences:

 

• Theoretical-practical - 3


• Practices - 4

Calculation formula of final grade

Teaching methodologies (including evaluation):
The 85 hours of contact are distributed by the following types of methodologies:

Theoretical- 30 hours

 Theoretical-practical- 25 hours ;

 Internship- 30 hours

Assessment modality: continuous with final exam

Theoretical Exam 85% -17 V
Practices 10% - 2 V
Assessment Continuous 5% - 1V

For approval the student must obtain a partial classification (in the test, in the exam and in the continuous evaluation) of at least 50% in each.

The assessment is continued by the teacher of the practical classes according to attendance, participation in classes and student performance throughout the semester. The practical exam consists of a brief anamnesis and 5 clinical gestures of the physical examination of a patient hospitalized in Pediatrics. The final exam consists of a 50-question multiple-choice test with a single correct answer, with a duration of 50 minutes with a quotation of 17 values. The resource exam consists of a theoretical test quoted for 17 values, keeping the assessment classifications continuing and practice for the final grade.

 

Examinations or Special Assignments

The improvement is obtained with the resource exam consists of a theoretical test quoted for 17 values, keeping the assessment classifications continuing and practice for the final grade.