Knowledge and understanding: The student must acquire knowledge suitable for interpreting signs and symptoms concerning the most frequent acute and chronic pathologies in the various stages of the pediatric age: infant, child, teenager. Know the stages of psychomotor development in the early years of life. Knowing how to deal with care problems in children with psychomotor retardation.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: The student must be able to apply knowledge of anatomy, biochemistry and genetics to understand the etiopathogenesis of the most frequent diseases of interest in physiotherapy.
Autonomy of judgment: The student must be able to use the knowledge acquired to develop his own autonomy of judgment regarding the main clinical pictures.
Communication skills: At the end of the course, the student will have to know and use appropriate technical and professional terminology and be able to correctly communicate information related to assistance issues. The lessons will be carried out by encouraging students to interact in order to learn scientific vocabulary, know how to structure questions and argue their theses. The questions proposed as an independent work include open questions in which the student will have to demonstrate the ability to re-elaborate the knowledge learned.
Ability to learn: The ability to learn is stimulated by deepening the knowledge acquired during frontal lessons. Learning skills will be verified within the various assessment methods provided.

Physiology of pulmonary, gastroenterology and neurological systems

1. Knowledge of the normal stages of the child's neuro-psycho-motor development;
2. More frequent infectious diseases in pediatric age;
3. Knowing how to recognize and treat pain in children;
4. Pneumological diseases of children;
5. Severity criteria in the child who visits the emergency room;
6. The "non-functioning" child: somatic disorders in childhood

Principi e pratica di Pediatria
A Cura di Panizon F
Editore Monduzzi

Frontal lessons.

None

The student's evaluation includes a written test in which 36 multiple choice questions are proposed. The student must demonstrate to be able to have acquired the basic knowledge of the study course.
The score of the exam is attributed by means of a mark expressed out of thirty calculated according to the following scheme: 1 point for each correct question; 0 points for each question left blank or wrong question.
To pass the exam (18/30) the student must reach at least the score of 21/36.
To achieve the maximum score (30/30 cum laude), the student must instead reach a score> 30,5

This course explores topics closely related to one or more objectives of the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development of
United Nations.