General and Specialised Pediatrics
A.Y. 2023/2024
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
Prerequisites for admission
Student must have taken the exam of General Pathology and Physiopathology.
Notions of general medicine
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 (cystic fibrosis, TBC), rickets, renal disease in children, the main cancers in children, the child with anemia and thrombocytopenia, the child with hereditary metabolic diseases (PKU), metabolic emergencies, the child with metabolic "storage" diseases, 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 (cystic fibrosis, TBC), rickets, renal disease in children, the main cancers in children, the child with anemia and thrombocytopenia, the child with hereditary metabolic diseases (PKU), metabolic emergencies, the child with metabolic "storage" diseases, vaccinations.
Teaching methods
Each credit includes hours of frontal and innovative teaching. The innovative teaching activities consist in the deepening of specific topics of the course syllabus, that will be selected by the students and the teacher. Such activity will be carried out in active collaboration between students and teacher.
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
Each credit includes hours of frontal and innovative teaching. The innovative teaching activities consist in the deepening of specific topics of the course syllabus, that will be selected by the students and the teacher. Such activity will be carried out in active collaboration between students and teacher.
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: 8 hours
: 4 hours
: 4 hours
Professor:
Canevini Maria Paola
General and subspecialty paediatrics
MED/38 - PAEDIATRICS - University credits: 5
Lessons: 40 hours
: 20 hours
: 20 hours
Professors:
Banderali Giuseppe, Verduci Elvira
Educational website(s)
Professor(s)
Reception:
Monday 1 - 2 pm (e-mail )
San Paolo Hospital, Via A di Rudinì 8, 20142 - Milano