DU Child health and development

Curriculum

1. Session 1: Paediatric emergencies

   50 hours

   • Diarrhoea and acute dehydration in infants2 hours
   • Acute fever in children1 hour
   • Severe acute malnutrition2 hours
   • Vomiting in children1 hour
   • Food poisoning2 hours
   • Acute abdominal pain1 hour
   • Gastrointestinal bleeding1 hour
   • Severe and uncomplicated malaria2 hours
   • Acute kidney failure1 hour
   • Acute pyelonephritis1 hour
   • Heart failure1 hour
   • Metabolic emergencies in diabetic patients2 hours
   • Acute anoxic encephalopathy1 hour
   • Pathological neonatal jaundice1 hour
   • Neonatal bacterial infection1 hour
   • Neonatal surgical emergencies1 hour
   • Small-for-gestational-age and premature newborn2 hours
   • Neonatal seizure1 hour
   • Neonatal haemorrhagic syndrome1 hour
   • Respiratory distress of the newborn1 hour
   • Traumatic brain injury1 hour
   • Acute intestinal intussusception1 hour
   • Acute appendicitis1 hour
   • Acute bronchiolitis and asthma2 hours
   • Upper airway obstructive dyspnoea2 hours
   • Severe pneumonia2 hours
   • Pleuropulmonary staphylococcal infection2 hours
   • Coma in children1 hour
   • Infectious meningitis1 hour
   • Seizures / status epilepticus2 hours
   • Critically ill child: danger signs2 hours
   • Sepsis and septic shock1 hour
   • Shock: anaphylactic, hypovolaemic, cardiogenic2 hours
   • Foreign body inhalation1 hour
   • Resuscitation in cardiorespiratory arrest1 hour
   • Purpura fulminans1 hour
   • Triage, assessment and emergency treatment2 hours

2. Session 2: Common paediatric conditions

   45 hours

   • Acute nasopharyngitis1 hour
   • Acute otitis media1 hour
   • Acute tonsillitis1 hour
   • Infantile colic1 hour
   • Congenital stridor in infants2 hours
   • Benign skin conditions of the newborn2 hours
   • Scabies in infants and children1 hour
   • Fungal infections2 hours
   • Pyogenic skin infections2 hours
   • Limb malformations2 hours
   • Traumatic injuries of the newborn2 hours
   • Myocarditis, pericarditis2 hours
   • Infectious rash diseases3 hours
   • Non-infectious rashes2 hours
   • Miscellaneous allergies2 hours
   • Warning signs of childhood cancer2 hours
   • Oedema in children2 hours
   • Haematuria and proteinuria2 hours
   • Henoch-Schönlein purpura1 hour
   • Hypertension in children2 hours
   • Headache in children1 hour
   • Epilepsy in children3 hours
   • EPI vaccination2 hours
   • Acute flaccid paralysis2 hours
   • Primary tuberculosis infection2 hours

3. Session 3: Child development

   50 hours

   • Childcare2 hours
   • Embryofetopathies3 hours
   • Obstetric conditions3 hours
   • Child follow-up3 hours
   • The health system in Madagascar2 hours
   • Nutrition / the first 1,000 days2 hours
   • Breastfeeding2 hours
   • Growth in height and weight2 hours
   • Psychomotor development2 hours
   • Anorexia3 hours
   • Oral aversion disorder2 hours
   • Learning disorders3 hours
   • Developmental delay3 hours
   • Chronic malnutrition3 hours
   • Moderate malnutrition2 hours
   • Micronutrient deficiencies2 hours
   • Rickets2 hours
   • Obesity2 hours
   • Children and screens2 hours
   • Risk-taking behaviour / addiction2 hours
   • Adolescent sexuality and contraception2 hours

4. Session 4: Specialised paediatric conditions

   45 hours

   • Child abuse3 hours
   • Lyell syndrome1 hour
   • Haemolytic uraemic syndrome2 hours
   • Sudden infant death2 hours
   • Drowning1 hour
   • Kawasaki disease2 hours
   • Congenital heart disease2 hours
   • Sickle cell disease2 hours
   • Acute hypertensive crisis2 hours
   • Rheumatic fever2 hours
   • Acute endocarditis2 hours
   • Childhood cancer: warning signs2 hours
   • Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome3 hours
   • Nephritic syndrome – acute glomerulonephritis2 hours
   • Bone and joint infections3 hours
   • Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura2 hours
   • Intracranial hypertension2 hours
   • Prolonged fever3 hours
   • Juvenile idiopathic arthritis – Still’s disease2 hours
   • Systemic lupus erythematosus2 hours
   • Tuberculosis3 hours

Programme heads

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  Pr RAKOTOMAHEFA NARISON Mbolanirina Lala

  Head of the track

Admission