Università Roma Tre

1. Introduction to general paediatrics: characteristics and peculiarities
2. The Developmental Ages of Paediatrics: psychomotor development, notes on anatomy and physiology, characteristics of early and middle childhood children
3. Teething
4. Pediatric nutrition: breastfeeding and formula feeding, complementary feeding, self-weaning, the importance of the Mediterranean diet as a healthy lifestyle
5. Nutrition as an important relationship tool
6. The development of organic and psychic language bases
7. Language delay
8. Physiology of sleep in early and middle childhood
9. Children with special needs (autistic, with Down syndrome, diabetes, with congenital pathologies, hyperactive, etc.)
10. Mono or dizygotic twins
11. Children with disadvantaged families or family conflicts, bereavements, divorces
12. New family models
13. Functional and dysfunctional families, parenting
14. Fever and pain: notes on physiology. How to measure fever and what you need to know how to do
15. What you need to know about febrile convulsions
16. Pediatric emergencies: fever, cough, cold, rashes and skin rashes, trauma, abrasions and wounds, sunburn, sunstroke and heatstroke, accidental ingestion of a foreign body, what you need to know how to do (theoretical and practical part with exercise)
17. First aid (practical exercise)
18. Hygiene of early and middle childhood children, oral hygiene, use of creams and diapers, clothing
19. Continence: notes on physiology
20. The International Convention on the Rights of Children and Adolescents of 1989
21. Gaming and sporting activity
22. Behavioral disorders
23. The mechanisms of somatization
24. The mistreated child, neglect and indiscretion, abuse
25. Interview with parents (Group work, exercises with simulated situations)

Elementi essenziali di pediatria
GV Zuccotti – Società Editrice Esculapio