We plan to provide courses on the following sections covered under the curriculum for Pediatric Care. Links to individual courses available on specific topics provided below.
General pediatrics
- Pediatric fluids and electrolyte management
- Vaccine schedules (including for immunocompromised/asplenic patients)
- Developmental milestones (motor, linguistic, and behavioral neurodevelopment)
- Adolescent medicine (routine care and screening, common issues, puberty, psychiatry)
- Down syndrome
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Common orthopedic conditions in pediatrics
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Patellofemoral pain syndrome
- Developmental dysplasia of the hip
- Osgood-slatter disease
- Scoliosis
- Pediatric palliative care
Neonatology
- Evaluation of newborn (Physical exam, apgar, ballard scores)
- Routine newborn care
- Care for preterm neonate
- Birth-related trauma (nerve damage, cerebral palsy, fractures)
- Cleft palate
- Respiratory distress syndrome
- Neonatal infections (GBS, H. flu, E. Coli)
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- GI emergencies in neonates (NEC, bilious emesis)
- Neonatal dermatology (erythema toxicum neonatorum, miliaria, milia, neonatal acne, birthmarks, candidiasis)
- Neurologic diseases of the neonate (HIE, intraventricular hemorrhage, periventricular leukomalacia)
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Breast feeding
- TORCH infections
- SIDS
- Neonatal palliative care
Pediatric pulmonology
- Pediatric asthma
- Bronchiolitis (and RSV)
- Bronchitis and upper respiratory infections
Pediatric cardiology
- Congenital heart disease (cyanotic, non-cyanotic, Eisenmenger’s, Tetralogy of Fallot, VSD, ASH, Transposition)
- Pediatric murmurs
- Pediatric EKGs and arrhythmias
Pediatric dermatology
- Diagnostic approach to pediatric rashes/viral exanthem
- Skin infections (scabies, viral warts, molluscum contagiosum, tinea, impetigo)
- Dermatitis (contact dermatitis, eczema)
Pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition
- Pediatric vomiting and abdominal pain (Already covered) See course by ANDREW PHELPS, MD (UCSF) here
- Pediatric diarrhea (Already covered) See course by SANA SYED MD, MS. (UVA) here
- Global malnutrition (Already covered) See course by MARGOT TANG, M.D. M.P.H. (Boston University) here
- Nutritional deficiencies (Iron, Vitamin A)
- Feeding recommendations for infants and toddlers
Pediatric neurology
- TBI, post-concussion syndromes
- Seizures in pediatric patient
- Hydrocephalus
- Pediatric stroke (Already covered) See course by KEVIN SHAPIRO, M.D. (UCSD) here
Pediatric rheumatology
- Pediatric arthritis (Reactive Arthritis, JRA)
- Childhood vasculitis (HSP, Kawasaki, etc)
- Connective tissue disorders
Pediatric endocrinology
- Diabetes management in pediatric patient
- Thyroid diseases
Pediatric nephrology/Urology
- Pediatric UTI: Evaluation and management
- Pediatric AKI
- Evaluation of pediatric hematuria
- Glomerular diseases in children
Pediatric emergency medicine
- Pediatric upper airway obstruction (Epiglottitis, croup, foreign body aspiration)
- Pediatric toxicology/poisoning
- Pediatric head injury, PECARN
- DKA management in pediatric patient
- Respiratory distress, respiratory failure: diagnostic approach and management
- Acute abdomen in the pediatric patient
- BRUE and apneic events
- Accidental trauma in pediatric patient
- Long bone fractures in pediatrics
- Pediatric non-accidental trauma (Already covered) See course by ANDREW PHELPS, MD (UCSF) here
- Pearls and pitfalls of acute pediatric neck infection(Already covered) See course by CAROLINE D. ROBSON, MBCHB here
Pediatric heme/onc
- Evaluation of pediatric anemia
- Thalassemia
- Sickle cell trait/disease
- G6PD deficiency
- Acute leukemia in childhood (Already covered) See course by MIGNON LOH, MD (UCSF) here
Pediatric infectious disease
- Group A step infections, rheumatic Fever
- Otitis media
- Sinusitis (Bacterial, viral, allergic)
- Managing sepsis in the pediatric patient
- Acute bacterial diarrhea/infectious diarrhea (Already covered) See course by ROBERT OWEN, MD (UCSF) here
- Polio: Finishing and sustaining eradication (Already covered) See course by WALTER A ORENSTEIN, MD. (Emory) here
- Measles (Already covered) See course by WALTER A ORENSTEIN, MD. (Emory) here
- Pertussis
- HIV in the pediatric patient
- Malaria in the pediatric patient
- Tuberculosis in the pediatric patient
- Mononucleosis, EBV, CMV
- Varicella in pediatric patient (Chickenpox)
- Intestinal helminth infections in pediatrics (Trichuriasis, Ascariasis, Ancylostomiasis)
- Schistosomiasis
- Arboviruses (Yellow fever, hemorrhagic diseases, encephalitis)
- Meningitis in pediatric patient
- Special considerations immunocompromised pediatric patients (Cancer, asplenia, HIV, neutropenic)
