QuickREF for 2025 MOCA-Peds Learning Objectives

1. Counsel parents on routine neonatal medications and immunizations.
2. Distinguish between cardiac and non-cardiac causes of chest pain and evaluate appropriately.
3. Evaluate and manage a patient with eye redness. 
4. Evaluate and manage a patient with supraventricular tachycardia.
5. Evaluate and manage a patient with thermal burns.
6. Identify the child at risk for caregiver-fabricated illness and evaluate appropriately.
7. Know the differential diagnosis and evaluation of emesis in an infant.
8. Know the differential diagnosis of wheezing.
9. Manage a child with primary enuresis.
10. Manage different types of shock.
11. Plan the evaluation of a child with hypertension.
12. Provide anticipatory guidance regarding safety and injury prevention for adolescents.
13. Recognize and apply ethical principles regarding minors as decision-makers.
14. Recognize and manage postpartum depression.
15. Recognize findings that would suggest an immunodeficiency and plan the initial evaluation.
16. Recognize situations in which various immunizations may be contraindicated and manage patients appropriately.
17. Recognize various inheritance patterns.
18. Recognize, evaluate, and manage both normal and atypical development of a 9- to 12-month-old infant (social, emotional, language, gross motor, and fine motor).
19. Recognize, evaluate, and manage health issues in an infant born to a mother with a substance use disorder.
20. Recognize, evaluate, and manage opioid use disorder.
21. Understand and provide guidance to patients regarding methods of contraception.
22. Understand cultural and other factors that may affect medication adherence.
23. Understand how to develop a quality improvement project in clinical practice.
24. Understand return to activity criteria following an illness and advise patients appropriately.
25. Understand screening, evaluation, and management of suicide risk.
26. Understand the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management of atopic dermatitis.
27. Understand the clinical presentation and evaluation of a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.
28. Understand the diagnosis and management of influenza.
29. Understand the differential diagnosis and evaluation of a neck mass.
30. Understand the differential diagnosis and evaluation of a patient with short stature.
31. Understand the differential diagnosis and evaluation of jaundice beyond the neonatal period.
32. Understand the differential diagnosis, evaluation, and management of a child with persistent rhinitis.
33. Understand the differential diagnosis, evaluation, and management of a patient with failure to thrive.
34. Understand the differential diagnosis, evaluation, and management of anemia.
35. Understand the differential diagnosis, evaluation, and management of fever without a source in children 3 to 36 months of age.
36. Understand the differential diagnosis, evaluation, and management of hair loss.
37. Understand the differential diagnosis, evaluation, and management of primary amenorrhea.
38. Understand the differential diagnosis, evaluation, and management of proteinuria.
39. Understand the differential diagnosis, evaluation and management of stridor.
40. Understand the differential diagnosis, evaluation, and management of vaginal discharge in an adolescent.
41. Understand the evaluation and management of lower extremity anomalies in a young child (e.g., in-toeing, bowing, metatarsus adductus).
42. Understand the management of a patient with hydrocephalus/ventriculoperitoneal shunt.
43. Understand the Presentation, evaluation, and management of different types of headaches.
44. Understand, evaluate, and manage a patient with possible tick-borne illness.
45. Understand, evaluate, and manage issues with both breast-feeding and formula feeding in infants. 

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