Growth (Archived)
Activity
Large Group Session
Large Group Session
Growth assessment: Population standards; Disease-specific standards; Measurements; You and your parents, How do you shape up?
Growth in the fetus and newborn.
Growth in childhood.
Puberty.
Growth patterns in disease.
Nutrition, hormones, and the world around you.
Curriculum Block
Medical Foundation 2 / Part 2
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Activity Objectives
- Describe the production and regulation of growth hormone secretion from the pituitary gland.
- Explain the function of GH and Insulin like growth factors.
- Describe normal growth.
- Differentiate abnormal growth from normal growth variants.
- Explain the effects of GH deficiency and GH excess.
Tags
Archived
Archived
Basic Sciences
Human development
Nutrition
Cohort Year
2010
Curriculum Block
Medical Foundation 2
Part 2
Curriculum Week
Part 2
Discipline
Endocrinology
Nutritional Sciences
Pediatrics
MCC Presentations
Abnormal Pubertal Development
Stature Abnormal (Tall Stature / Short Stature)
McMaster Program Competencies
1.3 Interpret laboratory data, imaging studies, and other tests required for the area of practice
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Insulin [D06.472.699.587.740.625]
Proinsulin [D06.472.699.587.740]
Body Height [G07.345.249.314.100]
Body Weights and Measures [G07.100.100]
Fetal Development [G07.345.500.325.235]
Growth and Development [G07.345]
Growth Charts [E05.978.808.500]
Growth Hormone [D06.472.699.631.525.425]
Puberty [G08.686.760]
Puberty, Delayed [C19.391.690]
Puberty, Precocious [C19.391.693]
