4 November – 6 December 2024 (Online)
Live online sessions: 14, 21, 28 November & 5, 12 December 2024

This short course covers common acute emergency and trauma presentations across infancy and childhood, with a particular focus on the early detection of sick children. You will learn how to synthesise clinical findings and rationalise choices of investigations and management.

We will focus on critical thinking and evidence-based decision making in acute care, rather than learning clinical guidelines. We will also cover how the approach to research and quality improvement differs in the acute setting, including learning the process of formulating a research question and designing a study.

This fully online course is run over 5 consecutive weeks and participants will have access to asynchronous and synchronous sessions. Participants are expected to conduct ~ 7 hours per week of guided and self-directed asynchronous learning, which also incorporates group work online. There are also planned synchronous sessions during the course to discuss ideas, present group and individual work and to facilitate further learning.