Electives - Child and Adolescent Health course

Overview

The elective in the Child and Adolescent Health course provides the students with an opportunity to pursue in some depth an area of interest under the guidance of an expert in the area. Objectives, questions and assessment may come from one or more of the four domains of the course:

• Population health
• Scientific basis of medicine
• Professional attitudes and development
• Clinical skills

As a guide, the student should dedicate a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 10 hours work to meet the objectives; some electives require additional reading and writing time in addition to important clinical contact.

Note: Students in groups A & B (who spend 4 weeks in Geelong) will complete an elective in Geelong instead of at RCH. Students in the Rural Clinical School will complete their elective there. The following information applies to electives completed at RCH.

Available electives

1. Adolescent gynaecology 1: Intellectual disability and menstrual and contraceptive management
2. Adolescent gynaecology 2: Issues associated with making a diagnosis of a gynaecological problem with long term health and reproductive impacts
3. Adolescent health 1: Mental health
4. Adolescent health 2: Chronic illness in adolescence
5. Adolescent health 3: Eating disorders
6. Anaesthetics 1: Acute post-operative pain management in children
7. Anaesthetics 2: Perioperative management of small children
8. Anaesthetics 3: Neonatal anaethesia
9. Anaesthetics 4: Regional anaethesia and analgesia in children
10. Anaesthetics 5: General anaethesia for children
11. Behaviour 1: The crying baby
12. Behaviour 2: The pre-schooler
13. Behaviour 3: School age child
14. Child abuse
15. Children, procedures and anxiety
16. Clinical pharmacology
17. Dermatology
18. Disability 1: Epidemiology and causes of disability in childhood
19. Disability 2: Assessment of children with developmental disabilities
20. Disability 3: Ongoing care of children with developmental disabilities
21. Endocrinology 1: Diabetic ketoacidosis
22. Endocrinology 2: Management of diabetes in childhood and adolescence
23. Endocrinology 3: Aetiology of type 1 diabetes in childhood and adolescence
24. ENT: Common issues in paediatrics
25. Ethics
26. Family therapy
27. Gastroenterology: Inflammatory bowel disease
28. Genetics 1: The role of genetic counselling
29. Genetics 2: Community screening programs
30. Genetics 3: The role of genetics support groups
31. Indigenous child health
32. Infectious diseases
33. Introduction to paediatric neurology
34. Learning difficulties
35. Mental health and chronic illness
36. Metabolics: The impact of diagnosis of an inherited metabolic disease
37. Nutrition 1: Obesity in childhood
38. Nutrition 2: The enterally fed child
39. Nutrition 3: Iron deficiency in toddlers
40. Paediatric consulting
41. Palliative care
42. Plastic surgery 1: Saliva control
43. Plastic surgery 2: Obstetric brachial plexus surgery
44. Respiratory medicine: Management of tuberculosis
45. Speech pathology
46. Sunshine 1: Child friendly hospital
47. Sunshine 2: Paediatric pain management
48. Sunshine 3: Adolescent health in a community hospital
49. Surgery 1: Day surgery
50. Surgery 2: Burns - Any new prevention strategies?