UCL - Formation complémentaire en médecine préventive du nourrisson et du jeune enfant

[PEDI2190]

[30h] 3 credits

Teacher(s): Dominique BECKERS, Eddy Bodart, Naima Deggouj, Pierre-Louis DOCQUIER, Geneviève FRANCOIS, Françoise Smets, Françoise Smets, Dominique Tennstedt, David Tuerlinckx(coord.), David Tuerlinckx(coord.), Demet Yuksel

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

Ability to inform and advise parents on how to deal with little children, and how to promote, protect and restore their health.
Ability to detect precociously any sign or symptom of harmful diseases.
Ability to assess and treat minor ailments of children in daily family practice

Main themes

Child health - Domestic accidents
The normal child, its growth and development
The follow up of the normal child - the well babies clinic
Breast feeding and how to feed children
Immunization of children
Oral health in children
Signs of danger and minor ailments of children in daily practice: general paediatrics- ORL- ophtalmology - dermatology - orthopaedics
Allergies in children
Child abuses

Content and teaching methods

Part of the teaching is given through lectures and part of it is self-learning on internet
http://www.icampus.ucl.ac.be/PEDI2190 (texts, links, slides, MCQ, case studies)

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisites : this teaching aims at medical students, nurses and doctors
Evaluation : MCQ
Support : self-teaching course on internet ; notes can be printed from it