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PAED5002: Adolescent Medicine
2024 unit information
This unit examines the medical and psychosocial issues affecting the adolescent age group. Modules include eating disorders, chronic illness, drugs and alcohol, adolescent gynaecology, sexual health and adolescent mental health. There will be a focus on the approach to the adolescent patient, the clinical issues related to the most commonly encountered diseases affecting adolescents as well as consideration of public health policy as it relates to adolescents.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Paediatrics |
| Credit points | 6 |
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Describe and discuss normal physical sexual development including puberty in adolescence
- LO2. Apply indepth understanding of consent and confidentiality in relation to the adolescent patient
- LO3. Describe and discuss common presentations of adolescent problems in different populations
- LO4. Describe and discuss an approach to clinical and psycho-social evaluation of adolescent patients
- LO5. Describe and discuss the impact and reaction to chronic illness in adolescence
- LO6. Describe and discuss eating disorders through case based examples
- LO7. Describe and discuss substance use: Alcohol and illicit drugs
- LO8. Develop an indepth understanding of assessing and managing adolescents with gender identity related medical and psychosocial issues
- LO9. Develop an ability for assessment, investigation, counselling and medical management of menstrual disorders in adolescence using a case based approach
- LO10. Describe and discuss transition of adolescent medical care
- LO11. Ability to recognise, investigate and manage common adolescent health issues, including assessment of competency, sexual and reproductive health, menstrual disorders, chronic illness, eating disorders, substance use and transition of medical care.
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Semester 2 2024
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Online | Westmead, Sydney |
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