TM5534:03
Tropical Paediatrics
Townsville
Prerequisites: Medical practitioner or senior clinical experience and training as a clinical provider
First or second semester.
Available to Registered Medical Practitioners.
Demographic and epidemiological characteristics of children in tropical countries. Public health conditions which contribute to and can be modified in order to improve child morbidity and mortality in tropical climates. Major diseases affecting children in tropical countries, particularly those illnesses which are exclusive to tropical regions and not taught extensively in Australian child health and paediatric programs. Includes helminthic, protozoan, rickettsial, bacterial, viral, fungal and nutritional, psychiatric and social diseases (malaria, filariasis, neonatal, tetanus, onchocerca). Special issues of chemotherapy of tropical disease in children. Health conditions related to culture.
Learning Objectives:
- describe the aetiology, symptomology, diagnosis, management and prognosis of a range of illness affecting children in the tropics;
- describe special issues of chemotherapy in children;
- describe public health conditions which contribute to, and can be modified, in order to improve child morbidity and mortality in tropical climates;
- recognise cultural factors which may influence the acquisition, course and management of childhood illness in tropical regions.
Assessment by two two-hour examinations (30% and 40%); case study or research paper (30%).
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