General Paediatrics: Essentials for New Doctors
Enhance your paediatric care proficiency and navigate your general paediatrics practice with confidence.
Duration
3 weeksWeekly study
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How it works
General Paediatrics: Essentials for New Doctors
Strengthen your paediatric skills and bolster your confidence
Establish your position in the world of general paediatrics, a crucial field ensuring the health and safety of young patients. This rigorous three-week course is designed for new doctors and healthcare professionals looking to strengthen their foundation in paediatric care.
Establish core paediatric clinical competencies
Embark your paediatric journey by establishing core clinical competencies. The curriculum provides an in-depth look at paediatric examination techniques, consultation methodologies, and accurate prescribing practices, essential for early-career medical professionals. Solidify your foundational knowledge to effectively navigate paediatric healthcare environments.
Advance in paediatric emergency protocols and life support
Elevate your capability to manage paediatric emergencies through advanced training in emergency protocols and paediatric basic life support. This essential module during week 2 equips you with the knowledge to handle acute physical and mental health crises in children, ensuring you provide critical care when it matters most.
Implement child safeguarding measures
Focus on the implementation of child safeguarding measures, learning to identify and act upon various child welfare concerns. You’ll gain expertise in conducting child protection medical examinations and utilising body maps as tools for safeguarding, crucial for fulfilling your role in protecting vulnerable young patients.
By the end of the course, you’ll be empowered with the expertise to deliver competent and compassionate care in paediatrics, ready to face the challenges of a paediatric department with confidence and skill.
This course bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical paediatric care, preparing you for a fulfilling career in paediatric medicine.
Syllabus
Week 1
The Basics
Week 1 Introduction
Welcome to week 1 of the course, learn about this course and the educators who put it together
Consultation Skills
How to handle consultations with paediatric patients, listen to examples and reflect on your own practice
Examination Skills
Explore and learn how best to preform examinations on paediatric patients, considering their age and the three P's (Privacy, Permission and Puberty)
Clinical Skills
Tips on performing some key clinical skills on paediatric patients especially in babies
Prescribing
Exploring some of the common mistakes in prescribing in paediatrics and practice your calculations in a short quiz
Summary
Summary of the week, reflections and looking ahead
Week 2
Protection and Safety
Week 2 Introduction
Welcome to week 2 of the course based on protection and safety of paediatric patients
Safeguarding
Documentation during examination using body maps specifically for child protection medicals and safeguarding your paediatric patients
Adolescents
Considering consent and capacity in adolescent patients and hearing an example of a consultation using the HEEADSSS assessment
Mental Health
Reflecting on paediatric cases on mental health specifically on common conditions such as depression and eating disorders
Areas Less Commonly Thought About
In this activity we will look at inclusive language relating to LGBTQ+ healthcare and identity, as well as female genital mutilation. These may be topics you are less familiar with and may not have has much experience with.
Summary
Summary and reflections of week 2 and looking ahead at week 3
Week 3
Emergencies
Week 3 Intro
Welcome to the final week of the course on emergencies in paediatrics
Data Interpretation
Exploring clinical data and interpreting this for paediatric patients with examples to work through
Resuscitation
Performing life support and resuscitation in paediatrics using the WETFLAG tool in emergency situations
Physical Health
Work through and reflect on a seizure paediatric scenario and another and explore assessment options
Summary
End of week 3 summary and reflections with resources to support your paediatrics work
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Apply existing knowledge gained during medical school to the specific context of a UK general paediatrics department.
- Identify the correct techniques in examining, taking a history and performing procedures from paediatric patients.
- Reflect upon the appropriate care to be given to vulnerable children and young people by exploring safeguarding, child protection and laws surrounding their care.
- Practice the ability to safely calculate prescription dosage for paediatric medicine.
- Describe appropriate emergency care for paediatric patients with mental health and common physical challenges.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for early-career UK doctors and paediatric specialists, offering key skills for treating children.
It’s suitable for those in training or considering paediatrics; it garners paediatric care expertise and benefits international doctors.
Who will you learn with?
I am an academic foundation year 2 doctor in London, soon to start paediatrics training in the Severn Deanery.
Hi, I'm a paediatric clinical research fellow in London! I've made a course on Future Learn about working as a doctor in paediatrics for the first time to help new starters hit the ground running!
Who developed the course?
St George's, University of London
St George’s is the UK’s only university dedicated to medical and health sciences education, training and research.
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Ways to learn
Choose the best way to learn for you!
Subscribe & save
$244.99 for a whole year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$109/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Limited access
Free
Sample the course materials
- Access expires 26 Oct 2024
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- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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