General and Specialised Pediatrics

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.

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.