OVERVIEW

Children's Health is organized by Remote Care Education.

Learn how to care for the largest patient demographic
This course helps you prepare for unfamiliar health landscapes and cultures in order to effectively work with children during medical mission work. This bundle course covers all the main tools and considerations you'll want to have in your black bag for seeing kids age 0-18.

Lesson Plan:

Cultural Competence | 63 minutes
Review common but often unexpected cultural issues that arise during consults across wide religious, ethnic, geographic, language, and socio-economic gulfs. Learn skills to communicate more effectively with patients, utilize translators, and reduce medical errors related to miscommunication. Participants should gain confidence when approaching consults in unfamiliar cultural settings and using cultural competency skills to improve clinical outcomes.
Births in Resource-Limited Settings | 83 minutes
Learn what to do when one of your patients goes into labor, especially in remote settings or otherwise without access to advanced services. Learn tips to make sensitive prenatal consults a positive experience for you and your patients and their families. Review normal progression of labor and common birth emergencies, as well as neonatal care needs and resuscitation. Participants should gain increased confidence approaching maternal health consults in resource-limited settings, and improve maternal outcomes in medical aid settings.
Pediatrics 1: Neonates & Infants | 81 minutes
Review the common medical mission issues that arise early in life and preventive and acute approaches to diagnoses and treatments. Also, learn how to promote successful breastfeeding and management of breastfeeding issues. Participants should be more motivated to highlight neonatal and infant health in medical aid due to greater physician appreciation of neonatal and infant health as high-value intervention targets in resource-limited settings. Participants should also develop improved breastfeeding promotion abilities both in and out of mission settings.
Pediatrics 2: Children & Adolescents | 65 minutes
Review of general child and teen health issues in the developing world, and approach to common specific conditions, including problems of growth and development, abuse and mental health, and infectious conditions. Participants will gain improved confidence in resource-limited pediatric primary care consults, and improve outcomes in medical aid deployments.
Nutrition | 37 minutes
Review of the principles of nutrition in health care applications, especially as applied to resource-limited settings and the non-medical management of chronic disease. Includes a review of common mal-nutritive conditions encountered in mission settings and the barriers to nutrition in developing regions. Participants gain competence in assessing acute and chronic nutritional status in resource-limited populations, recognizing and managing nutritional deficiencies, and utilizing recourse-limited nutritional knowledge to improve patient outcomes.
Diarrheal Disease Fundamentals for Resource-Limited Settings | 52 minutes
This ubiquitous medical mission issue receives special attention. Common causes are reviewed, with an emphasis on pattern recognition and clinical diagnosis, common causes, dehydration, public health, and primary prevention. Management strategies in remote settings are included, as well as regional barriers and strategies for larger-scale interventions. Participants should gain confidence and competence in recognizing and managing diarrheal presentations in remote or resource-limited settings.