The curriculum of the summer professional training in Paediatrics
(Duration 2 weeks, during summer holidays after the 4th year – in the Paediatric Department of a Motol University Hospital, in a regional or district hospital, with specialised outpatient department and neonatal Department according to your choice)
- 1 week working in inpatient Paediatric Department and in a specialised consulting room of Paediatric Medical Centre
- 1 week working in Neonatal Department
Inpatient paediatric department
- taking the history (family, personal, epidemiological, allergological), analysing basic anamnestic data)
- physical examination of the child in admitting to hospital, during the stay and before discharging
- laboratory and complementary examination – assisiting in the suggestion of the diagnostic record and analysing the outcomes
- collections of biological material, assisting in infusions and transfusions, diagnostical and therapeutical
- assisting in application of medications (peroral, topical, parenteral)
- hospital milieu, psychological care for a hospitalised child, communication with parents
- documentation – admission, medical history, decourse, discharge, follow-up care
Specialised consulting rooms for children with chronic illnesses
- taking the history (see above)
- physical examination of the child
- assisting in taking of the biological material, diagnostic and therapeutical acts
- laboratory and complementary examination – assisting in the proposal of the diagnostic record and analysing the outcomes
- psychological care for children with chronic illness, cooperation with the family and the general practitioner of children and young people
- documentation and dispensing, prevention
Neonatal Department – physiological newborn babies
- taking the history, analysing the basic anamnesic data, analysing the data of both clinical and laboratory examinations in the medical history of the mother
- physical examination and treatment of the newborn baby in the delivery room supervised by a neonatalogist and a nurse, the Apgar score, the outcome for formulation diagnosis, treating and therapeutical procedure
- follow-up care in the Department of physiological newborn babies, physical examination and treatment of the newborn baby, the overall evaluation of the newborn baby – typology, postural reflexes, spontaneous signals and other signals seen at first sight. A detailed examination of the head, neck and thorax, abdomen, extremities and neuromotoric status of the baby
- breastfeeding and its importance, formulated milks – when and which type
- daily regime of the newborn baby, calmetization, treatment of the umbilicals, laboratory examination, screening, cutaneous treatment
- assisting in the collection of the biological material, infusions and transfusions, diagnostic and therapeutical acts
- assisting in the application of medications (peroral, topical, parenteral)
- conditions for the discharge, following care, communication with parents
- documentation in the neonatal Department
A certificate on completion of the summer practice with the stamp of the particular department and a signature of the doctor responsible for the ward will be recorded in the student's index.
