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Year 5 Medicine.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject, students should have: an understanding of normal childhood development in all its aspects - physical, emotional and intellectual; an awareness of the importance of the interactions of the child and the family, and the social interactions between the child and the community; the ability to handle problems of growth, development and behaviour; the necessary skills and knowledge required for the provision of acute primary care to the sick child; an understanding of the important aspects of secondary care so that a wide variety of medical and surgical illnesses can be recognised, and use made of the appropriate hospital and community resources; familiarity with preventive paediatrics - nutrition, immunisation, health screening and accident prevention.
Content:
Growth and development, concepts of maturation; norms for physical development; the development of normal behaviour patterns; the use of percentile charts; assessment of developmental achievement. Common disorders requiring primary care; important and serious medical and surgical disorders of childhood. Paediatric diagnosis; history taking; physical examination of children; ability to establish rapport with patients and parents. The interaction of the child and the family; basis of development of personality; basis for understanding behaviour and emotional disorders; influence of emotional problems on disease. The impact of the community on the family; the effect of social disadvantage on the family (e. g. poverty, single parent families, migrants). Chronic disease and handicap in childhood; community facilities for the handicapped child, e. g. the blind, deaf, physically handicapped, or mentally retarded child, children in need of care. School failure. Child development study: During the fifth year, students commence a development study of an infant extending for a period of 9-12 months; a report must be submitted in sixth year.
Assessment:
A 3-hour written examination (60 per cent), a 95-minute clinical examination in paediatric medicine (25 per cent) and a 10-minute oral examination in paediatric surgery (15 per cent); students must pass the clinical examination to pass the subject. Child Development Study: a report of up to 4,000 words submitted in sixth year. A student failing this study will be required to pass a special oral examination in sixth year. Students who do not meet this requirement will not receive credit towards this subject for the up to two questions relating to paediatrics on the sixth year medicine written paper.
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