Advanced Paediatric Clinical Management Skills

Topics covered include:

• Introduction to mastery and academic writing
• Medico-leg law for advanced practice
• Diagnostic reasoning
• Consultation skills
• Introduction to Xray interpretation
• Introduction to blood result interpretation
• Clinical assessment skills
• Cardiovascular system
• Respiratory system
• Gastrointestinal system
• MSK system
• Neurological system
• ENT.

You'll gain 20 credits at the end of the module.

This module is delivered fully face-to-face at City Campus via interactive lectures, simulations, and problem-based learning. There is a total of 90 hours of contact time with additional self-directed study available via the virtual learning environment.

You'll typically be on campus on a Tuesday where your day will comprise of:

• 9am–11am: Epidemiology of common and rare conditions, diagnostic criteria, and assessment tools
• 11.30am–13.30pm: Assessment, treatment, and management planning theory
• 2pm–4pm: Clinical assessment theory and practice via simulated patient interactions.

Assessment 1: Assignment. Theoretically, you'll deconstruct a complex case from practice and critically appraise the care decisions made, the interventions undertaken and identify, debate and analyse the key components of your decision-making. Reviewing the outcome of the case to critically appraise and justify the clinical actions taken in a written report.

Assessment 2: Objectively Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). You'll undertake a 25-minute single-station OSCE, in which you'll demonstrate consultation and clinical history skills, advanced physical assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and management skills.