Resources:
Integrating Pediatrics into Preclinical Doctoring Courses
Video Based Learning- Exam and Development
Workshop Station Back to Elementary School
Objective Expanded:
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- Small group (if possible) teaching session on relevant age appropriate physical exam
- Standardized patients or direct practice with children of different ages and developmental stages
- home-schooled children
- nursery schools/daycares
- elementary/middle/high schools
- faculty/resident children
- In the preceptor visit curriculum including pediatricians
- longitudinal continuity with a pediatric preceptor
- deliberate exposure to a pediatric practice
- Newborn nursery clinical experiences
- Deliberate practice of pediatric growth and development (eg growth charts, developmental milestones)
- Recognition of normal variations of vital signs on children of different ages, including growth parameters
- Pediatric boot camp prior to clerkship
- Physical exam workshop and skills night
- Videos (eg developmental milestone videos)
Assessment Strategies:
(Direct Observation, Checklist, Passport, Short Answer questions, MCQ questions, e.g. on vitals and growth, OSCE)