General and Specialised Pediatrics
A.Y. 2020/2021
Learning objectives
The course aims at providing students with general knowledge about:
i) preventative, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative aspects of health and disease in the neonate, the infant, the child, and the adolescent;
ii) ability to plan basic medical intervention of patients affected by the most common (with regard to frequency and risk) paediatric health issues;
iii) conditions that require the specialist's professional contribution.
i) preventative, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative aspects of health and disease in the neonate, the infant, the child, and the adolescent;
ii) ability to plan basic medical intervention of patients affected by the most common (with regard to frequency and risk) paediatric health issues;
iii) conditions that require the specialist's professional contribution.
Expected learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
i) approach the healthy and the sick neonate, child, and adolescent using the right methodology, with regard to the most common health issues of the paediatric age, taking into account family and social background;
ii) recognize the most common emergencies in children;
iii) implement the principles of prevention and care, typical of the developmental age;
iv) recognize the most common neuropsychiatric problems of the paediatric age.
i) approach the healthy and the sick neonate, child, and adolescent using the right methodology, with regard to the most common health issues of the paediatric age, taking into account family and social background;
ii) recognize the most common emergencies in children;
iii) implement the principles of prevention and care, typical of the developmental age;
iv) recognize the most common neuropsychiatric problems of the paediatric age.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
In the first semester the lectures will take place as concurrent classroms:
·in the classroom with a limited number of students, who have previously booked using the "lezioniUnimi" app with the unimi e-mail account username and password; (https://www.unimi.it/it/studiare/frequentare-un-corso-di-laurea/seguire-il-percorso-di-studi/orari-delle-lezioni) and at the same time through the "Teams platform" for online students ;
· The student must wear a surgical mask for the entire duration of his/her stay in the classroom and to sit using every other free seat
· the lectures will be recorded and made available on the teacher's Ariel website for students with proven difficulties to connect during classes
· the lectures will take place at the San Paolo Hospital on the 3rd floor of Blocco C. Students must access classrooms via Blocco C and exit via the side blocks (students leaving Pauling and Fleming rooms towards Blocco B and students leaving Curie, Golgi and Pasteur rooms towards Blocco A).
Students must enter from the main hall (R floor) of the San Paolo hospital and undergo body temperature measurement by the infrared cameras. It is strongly recommended to use the stairs for classrooms entering and/or leaving.
NB for any further information check the unimi.it website: (Home Studiare Frequentare un corso di laurea Seguire il percorso di studi Orari delle lezioni)
·in the classroom with a limited number of students, who have previously booked using the "lezioniUnimi" app with the unimi e-mail account username and password; (https://www.unimi.it/it/studiare/frequentare-un-corso-di-laurea/seguire-il-percorso-di-studi/orari-delle-lezioni) and at the same time through the "Teams platform" for online students ;
· The student must wear a surgical mask for the entire duration of his/her stay in the classroom and to sit using every other free seat
· the lectures will be recorded and made available on the teacher's Ariel website for students with proven difficulties to connect during classes
· the lectures will take place at the San Paolo Hospital on the 3rd floor of Blocco C. Students must access classrooms via Blocco C and exit via the side blocks (students leaving Pauling and Fleming rooms towards Blocco B and students leaving Curie, Golgi and Pasteur rooms towards Blocco A).
Students must enter from the main hall (R floor) of the San Paolo hospital and undergo body temperature measurement by the infrared cameras. It is strongly recommended to use the stairs for classrooms entering and/or leaving.
NB for any further information check the unimi.it website: (Home Studiare Frequentare un corso di laurea Seguire il percorso di studi Orari delle lezioni)
Prerequisites for admission
Notions of general medicine
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral exam aimed at assessing the acquisition of knowledge of the physiological aspects of the child's growth, of the main diseases in pediatric age, and of skills in generating adequate differential diagnosis based on any clinical symptom/ sign.
General and subspecialty paediatrics
Course syllabus
Healthy newborn, breastfeeding and formula, neonatal screening, physiological growth, weaning and feeding in the pediatric age, pathological growth, pathological newborn, congenital heart disease.
Pathology of the upper and lower respiratory tract, maternal - fetal infections and HIV, food allergy and atopic dermatitis, infectious exanthematous diseases, asthma, non exanthematous infectious diseases, rheumatic disease, celiac disease and diabetes, child with abdominal pain, chronic respiratory diseases (fibrosis cystic), rickets, chronic respiratory diseases (TBC), renal disease in children, the main cancers in children, the child with anemia and thrombocytopenia, the child with hereditary metabolic disease (PKU), metabolic emergencies, the child with disease metabolic "storage", vaccinations.
Pathology of the upper and lower respiratory tract, maternal - fetal infections and HIV, food allergy and atopic dermatitis, infectious exanthematous diseases, asthma, non exanthematous infectious diseases, rheumatic disease, celiac disease and diabetes, child with abdominal pain, chronic respiratory diseases (fibrosis cystic), rickets, chronic respiratory diseases (TBC), renal disease in children, the main cancers in children, the child with anemia and thrombocytopenia, the child with hereditary metabolic disease (PKU), metabolic emergencies, the child with disease metabolic "storage", vaccinations.
Teaching methods
The program will be carried out through lectures (5 CFU) with the help of teaching material (slides) and professional skills (1 CFU: evaluation and discussion of clinical cases)
Teaching Resources
Manuale di Pediatria. La pratica clinica. A cura di GV Zuccotti Esculapio editore ED 2016
Child neuropsychiatry
Course syllabus
Psychomotor development-intellectual disability, pediatric epilepsies and paroxysmal non-epileptic manifestations, adolescent psychopathology, changes in consciousness in PS (including fever crisis, meningitis, encephalitis), rare diseases: what they are and some examples of diseases with neurological involvement, autism- ADHD.
Teaching methods
The program will be carried out through lectures (5 CFU) with the help of teaching material (slides) and professional skills (1 CFU: evaluation and discussion of clinical cases)
Teaching Resources
Manuale di Pediatria. La pratica clinica. A cura di GV Zuccotti Esculapio editore ED 2016
Child neuropsychiatry
MED/39 - CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 12 hours
Professor:
Canevini Maria Paola
General and subspecialty paediatrics
MED/38 - PAEDIATRICS - University credits: 5
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Verduci Elvira
Professor(s)
Reception:
Monday 1 - 2 pm (e-mail )
San Paolo Hospital, Via A di Rudinì 8, 20142 - Milano