Pediatrics II (MED505) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Pediatrics II MED505 Master-1 10 20 0 6 11
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language English
Course Type Compulsory Departmental Courses
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Distance, Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion, Drill and Practice, Observation Case Study, Problem Solving, Team/Group, Role Play.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Asst. Prof. Dr. İbrahim Sinan BUĞUR
Course Assistants
Course Objectives To provide students knowledge related child development, nutrition, preventive medicine, diagnosis and treatment of common pediatric diseases. To monitor and diagnose, treat and monitor the development and health of the, child and adolescent patients in the clinical stages of medical education.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Evaluates the medical history of child and adolescent patients.
  • Makes the physical examination of the child and evaluates the vital functions.
  • Follow the growth and development of the child.
  • Recall and applies the laboratory tests that are required during the follow-up of healthy children.
  • Understand the common disease of childhood and adolescents, explains the risks.
  • Understands the Child abuse, violation and neglect.
  • Understand the problems requiring emergency intervention for child.
  • Apply basic interventional procedures.
  • Plan the laboratory tests necessary to diagnose the patient and interpret the laboratory tests to be requested.
  • He / she advises the patient with his family about the progress of the treatment and the follow-up plans.
  • Treat common diseases in childhood.
  • Apply the basic interventions to the pediatric patient in primary care and refer them to a higher health institution.
  • Conducts appropriate communication with colleagues, senior experts and health workers and conducts team work.
  • Read and discuss the basic literature about pediatrics.
  • Evaluates professional competence and improves professional performance by continuing to learn.
  • Has information about prevention of behaviors that may pose a risk to children and adolescents.
Course Content Child development. Nutrition, exercise. Kidney and urinary tract diseases in children.. Cardiovascular diseases in children. Adolescent Problems. Endocrine diseases. Neurological diseases. Hematologic diseases and malignant diseases in children. Approach to lymphadenopathy, cyanotic baby, children with shortage of respiration, dehydration, , hematologic disorders, emergency conditions

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Propedeutics, Targeted examination in pathological conditions Evaluation of the findings according to the age, and general conditions of the child Approach to the common developmental problems Physical Growth and Sexual Development in Adolescence Gender development disorders Clinical Approach to Ambiguous Genitalia Child abuse, violation and neglect Child right Common screening methods for children Common Problems in Adolescence Approach to adolescent patient -
2 Acute Respiratory Failure Evaluation of blood gas Recurrent Pneumonia Wheezy child approach, approach to the child with cough Congenital cyanotic heart diseases Acute heart failure Dysritm in children, Evaluation of ECG Shock Hypertension -
3 Evaluation of complete blood count Evaluation of peripheral smear Iron deficiency anemia in children Hemoglobinopathies Megaloblastic anemias Immune and non-immune hemolytic anemias Bone marrow failure Principles of transfusion in children Solid tumors of childhood Hematological tumors of children Childhood leukemia Hemorrhagic Diasthesis Oncological emergencies in children -
4 Anaphylaxis Allergic diseases Atophy Eczema Rickets, Congenital primary hypothyroidism, Hypothyroidism, Type I diabetes mellitus, Diabetic Ketoacidosis Differantial diagnosis in Endocrin diseases Approaches to lymphadenopathies -
5 Acute and Chronic Renal Failure in children Obstructive uropathy in children, VUR Nephrotic Syndrome, Nephritic Syndrome Arthritis in childhood Juvenile idiopathic arthritis Diagnostic approach to connective tissue diseases Muscular dystrophies Cerebral palsy Childhood convulsions and epilepsy -
6 Approach to the child with headache Vasculitis, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Convulsion- Coma Patient examination in outpatient clinic Prescription in common diseases Radiological evaluation in pediatric patients Approach to poisoning in children Pediatric emergencies Preventive medicine -

Sources

Course Book 1. Kliegman, St. Geme, Bum, Shah, Tasker, Wilson (2020). Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 21sth Edition. Elsevier Saunders; ISBN: 978-0323529501
2. Maya Bunik, William Hay, Myron Levin, Mark Abzug (2022). Current Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatrics,26th Edition. McGraw Hill / Medical; ISBN: 978-1264269983

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application 6 20
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury - -
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 80
Toplam 7 100
Percentage of Semester Work 20
Percentage of Final Work 80
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Integrates and utilizes the information, skills, and approaches obtained from basic, clinical, and medical sciences, behavioral sciences, and social sciences when offering healthcare services. X
2 Offers healthcare services to patients with a biopsychosocial approach where the sociodemographic and sociocultural backgrounds of these individuals are taken into consideration, focusing on the universal human values, ethical principles, and professional duties; without exercising discrimination on the basis of language, religion, race, or sex. X
3 Aims to protect, improve, and develop individual and public health when offering healthcare services. X
4 Performs the necessary studies in sustaining and improving health, taking into the individual, public, social, and environmental factors to affect it. X
5 Trains healthy individuals/ patients, their relatives, and other healthcare workers in healthcare upon determining the features, requirements, and expectations of their target audience. X
6 Exercises a safe, rational, and effective approach in the procedures of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation; while offering healthcare services. X
7 Implements interventional and/or non-interventional practices in a way that is safe and effective for patients during the procedures of diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation. X
8 Offers healthcare services taking into account the health and safety of patients and employees. X
9 Takes the regional and global changes in physical and socioeconomic settings to affect health, as well as the changes in the individual features and behaviors of patients referring to them into account, while offering healthcare. X
10 Takes the good medical practices into account while performing their duties. X
11 Undertakes the tasks and duties within the framework of their professional ethical rules, as well as their legal rights and duties. X
12 Stands for the improvements in the manner in which healthcare services are offered, taking into account the concepts of social reliability and social duty, in an effort to protect and improve individual and public health. X
13 Evaluates the effects of health policies and healthcare practices on public health indicators, and, where required, amends their evaluation on the grounds of scientific and social needs; in an effort to help improve the quality of healthcare services. X
14 Leads their healthcare team while offering healthcare services, in a participative, and collaborative manner. X
15 Establishes positive relationships within their healthcare team; and where needed, easily adapts to various positions among their team. X
16 Exercises effective communication with patients, the relatives of patients, healthcare professionals, and groups from other professions, as well as institutions and organizations. X
17 Plans and conducts scientific studies on the society to which they serve, and use the results of these, or those from other studies, to benefit the society. X
18 Accesses the current literature on their profession, and evaluates them with a critical approach. X
19 Chooses the correct sources of learning to improve the healthcare services that they offer, and regulates their own learning process. X
20 Demonstrates the skills of obtaining and evaluating new information, integrating newer pieces of information with their current ones, as well as adapting to changing conditions throughout their professional life. X

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 6 10 60
Laboratory
Application 6 20 120
Special Course Internship
Field Work 6 2 12
Study Hours Out of Class 6 10 60
Presentation/Seminar Prepration 1 6 6
Project 1 5 5
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 20 20
Total Workload 283