Pediatrics

Learning Objectives Covered

• Counsel families about healthy beverage consumption in early childhood
• Develop a management plan for a patient with an abnormal depression screening
• Diagnose and manage acute head injury
• Evaluate a neonate with respiratory distress
• Evaluate an adolescent with secondary amenorrhea
• Evaluate and manage a child with a disorder of the scalp
• Evaluate and manage a child with postconcussion syndrome
• Evaluate and manage a patient with nasal polyps
• Evaluate and manage an infant or child with a new heart murmur
• Evaluate and manage infants and children with acute urinary tract infection
• Evaluate the developmental status of a child at 24 months of age
• Identify and manage cutaneous vascular lesions of infancy
• Know the differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain
• Know the differential diagnosis of hip pain
• Manage an adolescent with functional abdominal pain
• Manage problems associated with school overachievement
• Plan the evaluation of a child with recurrent pneumonia
• Plan the initial evaluation of a child with thyroid enlargement
• Plan the management of a child with recurrent or persistent streptococcal infection
• Plan the management of athletic amenorrhea
• Provide guidance regarding educational accommodations and interventions
• Provide guidance regarding toilet training refusal
• Recognize and apply ethical principles involved in informed consent/assent
• Recognize and evaluate an adolescent with abnormal pubertal development
• Recognize and manage labial adhesions
• Recognize and manage migraine variants in children
• Recognize and plan initial evaluation of altered mental status
• Recognize common congenital anomalies
• Recognize common X-linked genetic disorders
• Recognize complications of antibiotic overuse
• Recognize clinical features of gastroesophageal reflux (including the symptoms involving other organ systems)
• Recognize clinical features of juvenile idiopathic arthritis
• Recognize the clinical manifestations of cardiac dysrhythmias
• Recognize the clinical presentation and evaluation for oral allergy syndrome
• Recognize the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of methemoglobinemia
• Recognize the factors that relate to risk of error or reduced patient safety
• Recognize the presentation of primary disorders of phagocytic number and/or function
• Recognize the signs and symptoms of cancers involving the bone
• Understand the diagnosis and management of infectious diarrhea
• Understand the differential diagnosis of tachypnea in an infant
• Understand the differential diagnosis, evaluation, and management of otorrhea in children
• Understand the impact of racism on child and adolescent health
• Understand the inherited patterns of various blood disorders
• Understand the management of a prepubertal child with genital warts
• Understand the role of the pediatrician in prevention of child abuse and neglect
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