Special curriculum

1. Prevention

2. Ethical questions, child protection

3. Characteristics of the neonate, newborn and infant. Normal nutrition and development.

4. Special characteristics of medications/drugs in paediatrics

5. Paediatric gastroenterology (gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, peptic ulcer disease, pyloric stenosis, oesophageal atresia, TOF, achalasia, duodenal atresia, small bowel atresia, malabsorption/malnutrition syndromes, inflammatory bowel deseases, food adverse reactions, neonatal cholestasis syndrome, pancreatitis)

6. Paediatric pulmonology (pulmonary physiology, problems of the upper airway, problems of the lower airway, laryngitis, foreign body, bronchiolitis, bronchitis, asthma, community aquired pneumonia, empyema, cystic fibrosis)

7. Paediatric endocrinology (growth retardation, diabetes, prodlems of the sexual differentation, Thyroid problems, Ca and bone metabolism, endocrine problems of the fluid balance, precocius/ delay of puberty, adrenal gland problems, pituitary problems)

8. Paediatric cardiology
Dignosis of neonatal and pediatric cardiac diseases
Congenital heart defects (left-to-right shunt, right-to-left shunt, left heart obstruction, mixed shunts, ductal-dependent congenital heart defects)
Arrhythmias
Tachycardia
Bradycardia
-Extrasystolia
-Long QT syndrome
Symptomes of heart failure
Treatment of heart failure
Palliative surgeries in congenital heart defects
Corrective surgeries in congenital heart defects
Cardiovascular medication (anticongestive treatment, closure/opening of the ductus arteriosus, antiarryhthmic therapy)
Cardiomyopathies

9. Paediatric nephrology (urinary tract infections, nephrosis and nephritis, tubulopathies, acute renal failure, chronic renal failure, hypertony, vasculitises, enuresis, VUR, kidney stones)

10. Paediatric neurology (problems of neurodevelopment, infections of the CNS, Epilepsy, febrile seizure, headache, migrain, demyelinisation problems, infantile cerebral paresis, hypotonia)

11. Paediatric haemato-oncology (ALL, AML, most common solid tumors in paediatrics, types of anaemias, hemostatic disorders)

12. Fluid balance and toxicology (Fluid requirement in different ages, general rules of fluid resuscitation and maintainence fluid therapy, general rules in toxicology)

13. Genetics/metabolics (Most common genetic disorders, problems with glucose metabolism, storage eseases, mithocondrial problems, mucopolyshacharidosis)

14. Paediatric surgery and traumatology (most common surgical problems in neonates, surgical problems of the urinary tract, basics of the paediatric traumatology)

15. Paediatric pshychiatry (Introduction to children’s mental health problems and diseases, summary of developmental psychopathology. Introduction to the epidemiology, assessment and treatment of children and young people with mental disorders. Case presentations)

15. Neonatology (Maternal Diseases Affecting The Newborn, Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Small for Gestational Age, Respiratory Diseases of the Newborn, Primary Pulmonary, Hypertension of the Newborn, Retinopathy of Prematurity, Hyperbilirubinemia, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy, Intracranial Hemorrhage, Sepsis and Meningitis, Congenital Infections)