ACADEMIC YEAR Spring 2025 to Winter 2026
- Apply pediatric-specific medical knowledge to understand and address clinical issues
- Collect both focused and comprehensive, developmentally appropriate patient histories using triadic interviewing skills
- Perform age-appropriate physical examinations on newborns, infants and older children
- Construct appropriate approaches to common pediatric clinical problems by:
- Identifying essential clinical features
- Outlining natural history of disease processes
- Creating stratified differential diagnoses
- Formulating evidence-based diagnostic and therapeutic approaches
- Conduct healthcare maintenance visits that include the following components:
- Childhood immunizations
- Assessment of child development and nutrition
- The principles of anticipatory guidance
- Discuss the effects of growth and maturation on pharmacokinetics and use this knowledge to select the appropriate treatment regimens of commonly used fluids and medications in patients of different ages
- Analyze common professional and ethical dilemmas in pediatrics
- Deliver well-organized, appropriately focused and accurate oral patient presentations
- Write well-organized, appropriately focused and accurate patient notes, including admission, progress and outpatient visit notes
- Communicate with patients and families with consideration of patient age, developmental stage, and individualized family context.
- Work effectively as a member of the healthcare team to coordinate care.
- Elicit and recognize the perspectives and needs of families and provide care for patients within their social and cultural context.
- Identify gaps in knowledge and skills and set personal and professional goals for learning.