RCGP Curriculum - 8 Care of Children and Young People
This section of our curriculum guide refers to statement 8, Care of Children and Young People, produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
GPs have an important role in the care of children and young people. Most care for children and young people is delivered outside the hospital setting, and there is good evidence that providing care in primary care delivers improved outcomes in the health of children and young people.
The experiences of children and young people in early life – and even before birth – have a crucial impact on their life chances. Promoting health in children and young people can be included in all contacts with a child, a young person and their family, and should be targeted particularly at the vulnerable and socially excluded.
Here we have collated key articles from our journals to help you meet the curriculum requirements in this area.
PRIMARY CARE MANAGEMENT
SKILLS AND ATTITUDES
- Consultation skills - How best to work with children
- Medico-legal - Understanding Gillick competence
- CSA troubleshooting: 3 - Paediatric consultations
- Paediatric medicine - Self-harming in young people
- The basics - Doing a mother and baby check
- The impact of psoriasis in adolescents
- Routine postnatal care for women and babies
- Viewpoint - Maternal mental health and the child
- Adolescent health
- Echocardiography in ventricular septal defects
- New children’s vaccines, new direction
- The basics - Routine childhood immunisation
- Recognition and management of eating disorders
- Contraceptive requests by under-16s
- Anorexia nervosa
- Practice Dilemma - Confidentiality issues in childcontraception
- Management for cases of bedwetting
- Paediatric medicine - Daytime wetting in children
- Practice dilemma - Can a father view his daughter's medical record?
- The issue of consent in children
- How to... Resolve child dilemmas
- Paediatric medicine - Assessing childhood hearing loss
NEONATAL PROBLEMS
DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS
OTHER CONDITIONS
- The Basics - The management of head lice
- Cleft lip and palate
- Paediatric medicine - Identifying emotional distress in children
- Recognising cancer in teenage patients
- Clinical Review - Headache in children
- The basics - Strabismus
- Paediatric medicine - Recurrent abdominal pain
- Paediatric diarrhoea
- Constipation in children
- Clinical Review - Autistic spectrum disorders
- Recognising eating disorders in young people andchildren
- Paediatric medicine - Tourette's syndrome
- Anorexia nervosa
- Paediatric Medicine - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Management for cases of bedwetting
- NICE guidelines - Constipation in children
- Paediatric medicine - Management of chronic cough
- Diagnosis and management of epilepsy
- Surgery for childhood epilepsy
- CKS Clinical solutions - Febrile seizures
- Paediatric medicine - Management of fever in children
- Paediatric medicine - Wheezing disorders in preschool children
- The basics - Asthma care in children
SYMPTOMS
- Clinical Review - Febrile seizures
- Paediatric medicine - Tourette's syndrome
- Paediatric medicine - Managing nocturnal enuresis
- Paediatric Medicine - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Managing the child with Rett syndrome
- Paediatric medicine - Investigating delayed puberty
- Paediatric sleep disorders
- Identifying atrial septal defects
- Echocardiography in ventricular septal defects
- Paediatric medicine - Management of fever in children
- Red flag symptoms - Fever in children
- The treatment of febrile convulsions
- Paediatrics - Holistic answers to everyday problems
- Paediatrics - Holistic answers to everyday problems
- Paediatric medicine - GI problems in infants
- The management of gastroenteritis - The Basics
- Paediatric medicine - Gastroenteritis in children
INFECTIONS
- Paediatric Medicine - Management of scarlet fever
- Paediatric medicine - Eye infections in children
- Paediatric medicine - Erythematous rashes in children
- Paediatric allergies in primary care
- Management of glandular fever
- Paediatric medicine - Tonsillitis in children
- Paediatric medicine - Gastroenteritis in children
- The management of gastroenteritis - The Basics
- Paediatric diarrhoea
- Signs to look out for in meningitis
- The basics - UTIs in children
- MIMS Summary: Guidance on urinary tract infection in children
- Paediatric medicine - The child with ear pain and infection
- The Basics - Managing croup
- Acute otitis media in children
- Paediatric medicine - Chickenpox
- The basics - Managing mumps
- Paediatric medicine - Viral skin infections in children
- Pictorial case study: Mumps
- Pictorial Case Study - The case
PREVENTION
- The Basics - The six-to-eight week baby check
- Smoking cessation
- Alcohol problems in young people
- Red flag symptoms - Alcoholism
- Offering advice on breastfeeding
- Viewpoint - Management of childhood obesity
- Journals club - Childhood obesity
- GPs are crucial to health promotion
- The basics - Routine childhood immunisation
- New children’s vaccines, new direction
- Measles prevention and management
- The diagnosis and prevention of mumps
- Preconception genetic risk assessment
- Screening for fetal chromosomal anomalies
- The importance of antenatal screening
- Contraceptive requests by under-16s
- Practice Dilemma - Confidentiality issues in childcontraception
- Viewpoint - Assessment of HPV vaccination
OTHER RELATED ARTICLES
- Paediatric medicine - Cerebral palsy
- Cleft lips and dental problems
- Kawasaki disease
- A child presenting with limb pain
- Paediatric Medicine - Childhood stroke
- Case study - Parental concern for a crying baby
- Children's faces
These curriculum resources are regularly updated with relevant articles from our range of healthcare publications. All articles are reviewed by GP advisers. We have set the standard lifetime of an article at two years and will aim to renew all articles within that timeframe. However, some older articles will remain in the listing if our reviewers believe there to be no significant changes to the topic covered.
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