Learning outcomes for ICS Paediatrics (3 Day Course)

During this three day course you will learn about the common presentations in children that are seen by community practitioners and assess them using a specially-developed framework.

You will learn to identify when patients need to be escalated to secondary care with the following symptoms/presentations: 

• Acute respiratory conditions
• Chest pain
• Abdominal pain, vomiting, bowel change and abdominal distention
• Head and neck injury
• Acute limb injury
• Acute eye and ENT conditions
• Wounds

You will also learn how to: 

• Discuss and apply symptom analysis tools to a range of cases
• Be systematic when taking a symptom history
• Be aware of the red flags of the presentations/symptoms above
• List the different parts of the medical consultation

The course will also help you to understand the principles of the following examinations:

• Chest auscultation
• Abdominal examination
• Limb examination
• Eye, ear, nose and throat examination
• Wound assessment

You will leave the course with increased confidence to enable effective, timely care for acutely ill patients.