Pediatrics: Year 3

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Pediatrics: Year 3

Course Overview
Overarching Course Objectives
Specific Course Objectives
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Course Objectives

The pediatric clerkship experience introduces the student to a unique, complex, and challenging field of medicine. It emphasizes those aspects of general pediatrics important for all medical students, and will provide a foundation for those students who elect to undertake further training in the health care of infants, children, and adolescents.

Much of the clerkship is competency based. We are providing this curriculum to the students at the beginning of the clerkship so that they can begin the eight weeks with a clear definition of the goals and objectives.

The goals of the core curriculum in pediatrics are to foster:

-Acquisition of basic knowledge of growth and development (physical, physiologic and psychosocial) and of its clinical application from birth through adolescence

-Development of communication skills that will facilitate the clinical interaction with children, adolescents and their families and thus ensure that complete, accurate data are obtained

-Development of competency in the physical examination of infants, children, and adolescents

-Acquisition of the knowledge necessary for the diagnosis and the initial management of common acute and chronic illnesses

-Development of clinical problem-solving skills

-An understanding of the influence of family, community, and society on the child in health and disease

-Development of strategies for health promotion as well as disease and injury prevention

-Development of the attitudes and professional behavior appropriate for clinical practice

-An understanding of the approach of pediatricians to the health care of children and adolescents