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PMED5103: Paediatric Gastroenterology
2023 unit information
This unit closely examines current principle and practice of paediatric gastroenterology Modules of study within this unit will include worldwide patterns of paediatric gastroenterological disorders disorders of oesophagus and stomach focusing on evidencebased evaluation and treatment of gastroesophageal reflux helicobacter disease evidencebased evaluation and treatment of acute and chronic liver disease and pancreatic disorders evidencebased evaluation and treatment of enteropathies recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases and emerging paediatric gastroenterological disorders
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Children's Hospital Westmead Clinical School |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Recognise normal and abnormal growth patterns and be able to evaluate growth using standardised charts.
- LO2. Describe the nutritional status of a child and formulate a management plan to address nutritional deficiencies
- LO3. Assess and discriminate between physiological and pathological patterns of common gastro-oesophageal presentations
- LO4. Classify patterns of inflammatory bowel disease and formulate an appropriate management plan supported by contempory guidelines in the literature.
- LO5. Identify cases of failure to thrive and evaluate for causes related to maldigestion and malaborption
- LO6. Describe and discuss gastrointestinal manifestation of cystic fibrosis and other pancreatic disorders
- LO7. Interpret patterns of abnormal liver function tests and develop a list of appropriate differential diagnoses and plan for investigation
- LO8. Demonstrate a high-level ability to formulate a plan to investigate common childhood gastrointestinal presentations and interpret the results.
- LO9. Demonstrate an ability to critically appraise the evidence for the management strategies in paediatric gastrointestinal disease
- LO10. Discuss possible complications of conditions and side effects of treatment and describe how to monitor and manage these.
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