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Community Paediatrics
Draft proposed by Dr YK Shiu, Dr Annie Fok
Reviewed by Dr NC Fong
Essential Skills
Domain 5 - Health promotion & Illness prevention
Domain 9 - Safeguarding
Additional desirable skills are listed in each proposal. These recommended skills are to be acquired as opportunity arises.
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Basic Training
Care of the well child
Taking care of the general health and well-being from birth to adolescents in the community setting.
Childhood Immunisation
Knowledge of “Hong Kong Childhood Immunisation Programme”.
Breastfeeding
- Protect, promote and support breastfeeding
- Essential knowledge for supporting Baby-Friendly practices
- Framework to stop aggressive and inappropriate marketing of breast-milk substitutes e.g., the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, Hong Kong Code of Marketing of Formula Milk and Related Products, and Food Products for Infants & Young Children
Growth and Nutrition
- Normal growth patterns and nutritional requirement
- Promote healthy lifestyle for normal growth and optimal nutrition
Child Protection/Safeguarding
- Patterns of injury that are highly suggestive of non-accidental injury
- Shaken baby syndrome
Behavioural Paediatrics
- Risk and protective factors that may affect a child’s behaviour
- Recognise effective parenting practices can be used to prevent or manage common childhood behavioural problems
Social Paediatrics
- Social and environmental factors affecting health including poverty, children in care, influence of the mass media, health care policies
- Be aware of global child health issues including exploitation, child labour, child protection, war and growing up in low-income countries
- Recognise United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
- Health Promotion
- Aware of and make use of local paediatric primary health services
Child Public Health
- Key determinants of child health and well-being (including indices of social deprivation)
- Levels of disease prevention: primary; secondary; tertiary
Desirable skills
- Recognise and outline the management of children in need, including high risk unborn or newborn child
- Recognise abnormal demeanor and interaction of child with parents or child carer
- Assess feeding adequacy and manage common breastfeeding and feeding problems
Higher Training
Behavioural Paediatrics
- Screening for, assess and manage children with risk factors that may affect the behaviour of a child.
- Know how to prevent and remediate the impact of acute and chronic illnesses (including developmental difficulties) on child behaviour and family functioning.
- Counsel parents on effective parenting practices to prevent or manage common childhood behaviour problems.
- Participate in multidisciplinary team in management of the child and adolescent with behavioural problems.
Child Protection / Safeguarding
- Local multidisciplinary procedures for CYP in need of safeguarding support, including adoption and foster care.
- Long term sequelae in victims of child maltreatment
Desirable skills
- Collaborate or lead Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) and Multi-disciplinary Case Conference (MDCC)
- How to be a child advocate
- Deliver community child health promotion
