Your Pediatrics Survival Guide - Tips and Tricks

Pediatrics is different from any other rotation that you will do. Children are not just small adults. There is a huge range of ages and developmental stages. This episode will provide you with some general tips and tricks for all clerkships in general and the Pediatrics clerkship specifically, and essential resources that will help you to succeed in your clerkship. Essential Resources  Podcasts: Clerkship Ready-Pediatrics Charting Pediatrics - Weekly podcast with lots of bread-and-butter pediatrics discussed.  Pediatrics on Call - The most recent research and the newest policy updates from the American Academy of Pediatrics.  Books: Red Book (also an app for AAP members) - the definitive source for pediatric infectious diseases.  Harriet Lane Handbook (also an app) - has drug doses, commonly used charts, and algorithms.   Websites: Peditools for bilirubin  Uptodate CDC website is a great source for vaccine guidelines Apps: PedsScripts App: specifically to work on illness scripts General Tips and Tricks: Be Proactive Know what the expectations are.  Become familiar with the electronic medical record system.  Be Self-sufficient, but ask for help when appropriate.  Know when you should come in to round, who to pre-round on, and where to meet.  Pair up with an intern to pre-round. Ask for feedback.   Pediatric-specific Tips and Tricks: Pediatrics is different from any other rotation.  Huge range of ages and developmental stages. At every age, children act differently - and you need to adjust appropriately. If you can, get as much of the history from the child, but you will likely need to supplement that with history from the parent or guardian.  When you do your physical exam on younger children, have to adjust the order of exam   Vital signs change with age. Look up or ask about what is a normal vital sign in the age you are seeing.  Check weight, length/height and/or head circumference and report both percentiles and trends.

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