1612-Pediatrics, Geriatrics

What Will You Learn?

• The course equips students with comprehensive knowledge and skills in pediatric and geriatric care, enabling them to assess and interpret key indicators such as morbidity, mortality rates (including maternal, perinatal, neonatal, infant, and preschool), growth and development parameters through anthropometry, growth charts, milestones in motor, language, and social domains, and nutritional status. Students will demonstrate proficiency in managing nutrition across life stages, promoting breastfeeding, addressing protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin deficiencies, obesity, and immunization under national programs like ICDS, RCH, UIP, IMCI, Pulse Polio, and others. They will identify, diagnose, and manage common pediatric disorders of major systems, infectious diseases (with emphasis on vaccine-preventable conditions), emergencies, and genetic disorders like Down’s syndrome, while applying preventive strategies. In geriatrics, learners will understand aging physiology and psychology, nutritional needs, management of conditions such as infections, dehydration, osteoporosis, degenerative diseases, immobility effects, and psychosocial/economic needs of the elderly, including family and multidisciplinary roles, to deliver holistic, evidence-based care across child health and aging populations in clinical and community settings.