Program Overview

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Course Plan for Emergency Pediatrics, Emergency Obstetrics, and Neonatology

Introduction

The course plan for Emergency Pediatrics, Emergency Obstetrics, and Neonatology is designed to provide students with in-depth knowledge of the care of acutely ill children and women before, during, and after childbirth. This course is a continuation of the Clinical Medicine - Reproduction and Development course (Theme 6) in the medical program.

Basdata

Course Information

• Course code: 2LK086
• Course name: Emergency Pediatrics, Emergency Obstetrics, and Neonatology
• Higher education credits: 7.5
• Education form: Higher education, 2007 study order
• Main field of study: Medicine
• Level: Advanced level
• Grading scale: Failed (U) or passed (G)
• Department responsible for the course: Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset
• Decision-making body: Education Committee 2
• Date of establishment:
• Revised by: Education Committee for the medical program
• Latest revision:
• The course plan applies from: Autumn semester 2019

Särskild behörighet

Special Eligibility

• All higher education credits from semesters 1-9, the course "Clinical Medicine - Reproduction and Development," and registration for the course "Health in Society and the Environment."
• Students who have failed the clinical placement (VFU)/equivalent due to serious deficiencies in knowledge, skills, or attitude that risk patient safety or patient confidence in healthcare are eligible for a new VFU opportunity only after completing an individual action plan.

Mĺl

Objectives

The course aims to deepen students' knowledge of the care of acutely ill children and women before, during, and after childbirth. The knowledge is level-divided according to the SOLO taxonomy (S1-S4), and the skills are level-divided according to Miller's pyramid (M1-M4).

• Knowledge and understanding: Students should be able to discuss acute illnesses in children, adolescents, and newborns, as well as women before, during, and after childbirth (S3), and determine the level of care required and understand their own responsibilities (S3).
• Skills: Students should be able to take medical histories, perform and assess somatic status, and identify and manage certain acute diseases in acutely ill children, adolescents, and newborns, as well as women during childbirth (M3).
• Professional development: Students should be able to apply and integrate a humanistic and natural science perspective with evidence-based medicine in the management of acute diseases, and behave respectfully towards patients, other students, teachers, and staff, taking active responsibility for their learning and professional development.

Innehĺll

Content

The course focuses on the disciplines of pediatrics, neonatology, and obstetrics/gynecology. The study of pediatric conditions such as respiratory problems, infections, kidney diseases, neurological diseases, and seizures is deepened. The course also covers serious acute conditions in children and adolescents, such as severe infections and certain hematological, rheumatological, and immunological diseases. Acute obstetric conditions, such as abnormal vaginal bleeding, seizures, hypertension, sepsis, and complications during childbirth, are also addressed. Neonatal issues, including the transition from intrauterine to extrauterine life, neonatal asphyxia, and congenital malformations, are discussed.

Professional development (PU) permeates the course, with department placements and practical exercises providing opportunities for reflection and training in everyday and ethically complex situations. Scientific development (VetU) is included through an in-depth assignment with project presentation.

Arbetsformer

Working Methods

• Clinical placement (VFU) with individual feedback and clinical education at placements in neonatal departments, delivery wards, specialist maternity clinics, postnatal wards, pediatric emergency departments, and general pediatric care and investigation units.
• Project work involves students selecting a specific medical issue within the subject area, searching for scientific literature, and possibly evidence-grading.
• Skill training at the Clinical Training Center (KTC) in the form of interprofessional exercises (IPL) with midwifery students.

Examination

Examination

• Clinical placement (VFU), simulated exercises, seminars, and individual project work.
• Oral case-based examination in groups with individual assessment.
• Written examination in the form of project presentation and abstract.

The course responsible teacher assesses whether and how absence from compulsory educational components can be compensated. Before the student has participated in the compulsory educational components or compensated for absence in accordance with the course responsible teacher's instructions, the study results cannot be finalized.

If there are special reasons or a need for adaptation for students with disabilities, the examiner may decide to deviate from the course plan's provisions regarding the examination form, number of examination opportunities, possibility of complementing, or exemption from compulsory educational elements.

Övergĺngsbestämmelser

Transitional Provisions

For courses that have ceased or undergone significant changes, at least two additional exams (excluding regular exams) on the previous content are given during a period of one year from the time the change occurred.

Övriga föreskrifter

Other Provisions

The course is connected to and deepens knowledge, skills, and attitudes within the medical program and is defined as theme-related.

Course evaluation is carried out according to the guidelines set by the Education Board at Karolinska Institutet.

The course may not be credited in the exam at the same time as a deepening course taken within or outside the country, whose content entirely or substantially corresponds to the content of the course.

Litteraturlista och övriga läromedel

Literature List and Other Teaching Materials

• Nelson textbook of pediatrics, Nelson, Waldo Emerson; Behrman, Richard E.; Kliegman, Robert M.; Jenson, Hal B., 16. ed. : Philadelphia : Saunders, cop. 2000 - 2414 s. ISBN:
• Akut pediatrik, Widlund, Tomas, 7., kompletterade och rev. uppl. : Stockholm : Liber, 2010 - 383 s. ISBN:
• Neonatologi, Lagercrantz, H; Hellström-Westas, L; Norman, M, Studentlitteratur AB, 2008 ISBN:
• Obstetrik, Hagberg, Henrik, 1. uppl. : Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2008 - 768 s. ISBN:
• Obstetrics and gynecology, Beckmann, Charles R. B., 6th ed. : Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2010. - xiii, 497 p. ISBN: