Presentation

Adolescent Health Issues

Key Conditions

Key conditions are the core conditions that the Paediatric Undergraduate and Clerkship Directors of Canada (PUPDOC) felt are essential for graduating medical students to know. The Key Conditions are neither a differential diagnosis nor a clinical approach. They highlight conditions that may be unique to paediatrics, that are essential, or that are common. Key Conditions can present in a number of ways – each is listed as under the most common Clinical Presentation.

Clinical Approach

Clinical approaches represent one of many methods to think through a clinical presentation, and narrow down a differential diagnosis. There are many conditions that can present with similar symptomatology. These presentations are not meant to contain an exhaustive list of differential diagnoses, but rather outline how to think through patient signs and symptoms, and understand some of the most common and important Paediatric conditions. There are many different ways to approach any clinical presentation, and these approaches are not meant to replace clinical judgement.

Vignette

A 15 year old girl is being referred to your general practice clinic due to parental concerns of behavioural change and disturbance over the last 6 months.

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Pre-Clerkship

Lecture materials and small group cases are posted here for University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine students. Access to these materials are password protected.

Lectures

Small Groups

  • Child Psychiatry Small Group Cases Course 7

Clerkship

Lecture materials and small group cases are posted here for University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine students. Access to these materials are password protected.

Objectives

By the end of the Paediatric Clerkship, a medical student will be able to:

  1. Conduct a history that includes social-economic, cultural, home, and environment factors.
  2. Recognize the factors that contribute to disordered eating and substance use and abuse.
  3. List the order of pubertal development in boys and girls.
  4. List the features on history and physical examination that are consistent with sexually transmitted infections.

Half Day Cases

  • A 7 year old girl presents to your clinic due to bilateral breast masses
  • A 15 year old has a history of 5 kg weight loss over the last 2 months
  • A 13 year old has been refusing to attend school for the last 4 weeks

Resources

The following resources have been reviewed and collated by canuc-paeds. These resources are aimed to provide information at the level of the medical student. These include overviews of topics, clinical resources, and useful guidelines that contain relevant materials.

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Clinical approaches to Adolescent Health Issues?

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Last updated 13 October 2021.