Well Child Care
(newborn, infant, child)Circumcision
Crying / colic
Dental health
Discipline / Parenting
Growth – Head circumference, Height, Weight, Body mass index
Healthy active living
Hearing
Hypertension
Immunizations
Injury prevention
Normal development
Nutrition & Feeding
Sleep issues
Social-economic / cultural / home / environment
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Describe the use and limitations of tools to support periodic health supervision
- Describe the principles of screening tests
- Describe how cultural values influence health and health care interactions
- Take a family history to identify increased risk for inherited conditions and discuss mechanisms and patterns of inheritance
- Describe the nutritional requirements for growth and maintenance of health for infants, children and adolescents
- Compare breast and formula feeding
- Describe how vaccines work and the diseases they prevent
- Summarize the benefits and contraindications of immunizations
- Describe the epidemiology of childhood injury
- Describe age-related measures to reduce injury in the pediatric population
- Identify risk factors for hearing impairment
- Describe normal dental development
- Describe the pathophysiology of and risk factors for dental carries and gingival disease
- Explain the concept of reinforcement and factors that influence learning and behavior
- Describe sleep physiology and stages, sleep needs for different age groups, and best practices for sleep hygiene
- List the effects of sleep deprivation
- List risk factors for and strategies that decrease the risk of Sudden Infant Death
- Describe the concept of developmental surveillance
Overview & Foundational Knowledge
| Phillpi WJB. Care of the well newborn. Pediatrics in Review 2012; 33: 4-18.
Overview article; very comprehensive article covering many aspects of neonatal evaluation and care (antenatal care, early postpartum transitioning, anticipatory guidance, discharge readiness). |
| Hunt, CE & Hauck, FR. Sudden infant death syndrome. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2006; 174(13): 1861-1869.
Review article on SIDS. |
| Kenyon C et al. Revisiting the social history for child health. Pediatrics 2007; 120: e734-8.
Overview of the social history and the IHELP pneumonic. |
| Rourke Baby Record: Evidence-based infant/child health maintenance guide
http://www.rourkebabyrecord.ca/evidence.asp *This is recommended as a MUST READ resource* |
| Bradford NF. Overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. Primary Care. Clinics in Office Practice 2009; 36: 319-339.
Definitions, etiology and management of obesity but uses older Centre for Disease Control (CDC) charts. |
Clinical Resources
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http://www.cpeg-gcep.net/content/who-growth-charts-canada
The Canadian Pediatric Endocrine Group (CPEG) believes that it is optimal to have a single set of growth charts nationally and have therefore officially endorsed the 2014 revision to the WHO growth charts for Canada with a preference for the use of set 2 (see link). |
| Public Health Agency of Canada: Immunization Schedules
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/im/ptimprog-progimpt/table-1-eng.php http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/im/ptimprog-progimpt/table-1-fra.php Immunization schedules including catch up schedules and provincial schedules, in English and French. |
| Healthy active living: Physical activity guidelines for children and adolescents
http://www.cps.ca/en/documents/position/physical-activity-guidelines http://www.cps.ca/fr/documents/position/directives-activite-physique Canadian Paediatric Society Position Statement (2012). *This is recommended as a MUST READ resource* |
| Effective discipline for children
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719514/pdf/pch09037.pdf https://academic.oup.com/pch/article/9/1/45/2648488 Canadian Paediatric Society Position Statement (2004, 2013) *This is recommended as a MUST READ resource* |
| Melatonin for the management of sleep disorders in children and adolescents.
http://www.cps.ca/documents/position/melatonin-sleep-disorders-children-adolescents Canadian Paediatric Society Statement (2012), Community Paediatrics Committee. Overview of sleep problems and recommendations for behavioural management and use of melatonin. |
| Pediatric Blood Pressure Tables
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/files/docs/guidelines/child_tbl.pdf Tables of normative values (percentiles) for pediatric blood pressure based on age, gender and height percentile. Mandatory resource for evaluating blood pressure in pediatric patients. |
| The Well Child Visits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEPCWQ64-pc Seven-minute video on the components of the well-child visit history and physical exam. Search site for “well child visits” under “pediatrics.” |
| Calculating Calories for Infant Feeding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNt5H9FIwc Outstanding six-minute video on calculating calories and volumes for infant formulas and breast milk. Search site for “calculating calories” under “pediatrics.” Uses both mL and ounces. |
