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PMED5102: Paediatric Nutrition and Obesity
2025 unit information
This unit examines the worldwide status and trends in child and adolescent obesity incorporating a focus on paediatric nutrition It explores the determinants clinical assessment medical complications management and prevention of this important public health problem There is a close integration of epidemiology basic science and best available evidence in management and prevention into clinically based scenarios Our aim is to provide you with a broad knowledge base and ability to apply scientific theory and clinical evidence to the diagnosis and management of obesity in childhood This will include grounding in the complex social cultural and environmental factors contributing to the continuance of childhood obesity throughout the world
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Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Paediatrics |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Have a general understanding of normal child and adolescent nutrition and growth
- LO2. Have a general understanding of modifiable and non-modifiable determinants of child and adolescent obesity
- LO3. Have a general understanding of definitions and measurement of obesity
- LO4. Have a general understanding of worldwide epidemiology of child and adolescent obesity
- LO5. Have a demonstrated ability to recognise, investigate and manage the clinical complications of child and adolescent obesity
- LO6. Have a demonstrated ability to critically appraise the evidence for management strategies and guidelines for child and adolescent obesity
- LO7. Have a demonstrated ability to select, justify and design appropriate treatment approaches for children, adolescents and families affected by obesity
- LO8. Demonstrate a high-level ability to design an approach to management of the child or adolescent with severe obesity and multiple medical and/or psychological complications
- LO9. Demonstrate a high-level ability to design an approach to the management of children and adolescents with specific, complex causes of obesity
- LO10. Demonstrate a high-level ability to recognise and incorporate the environmental and social factors contributing to obesity in your local area into your general approach to obesity management
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