Growth: Hormonal Considerations
Activity
Active Large Group Session
Active Large Group Session
Curriculum Block
Endocrinology / Medical Foundation 3 / Part 3
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Activity Objectives
- Describe the different factors that affect prenatal and postnatal growth in children.
- Discuss how endocrine disorders lead to abnormal growth in children.
- Outline an approach to short stature in children including history, physical examination and basic investigations.
- Provide a differential diagnosis of short stature.
Assessments
Concept Application Exercise (CAE)
Tags
AFMC Entrustable Professional Activities
2. Formulate and justify a prioritized differential diagnosis
3. Formulate an initial plan of investigation based on the diagnostic hypotheses
Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
Curriculum Block
Endocrinology
Medical Foundation 3
Part 3
Curriculum Week
Part 3
Discipline
Endocrinology
Pediatrics
MCC Blueprint
Assessment/Diagnosis
MCC Presentations
Stature Abnormal (Tall Stature / Short Stature)
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
MeSH
Diagnosis, Differential [E01.171]
Diagnostic Techniques, Endocrine [E01.370.374]
Growth and Development [G07.345]
Growth Disorders [C23.550.393]
Growth [G07.345.249]
