The general setting has been extensively discribed in my earlier reports from HMU. In short: the education in pediatrics at HMU is good, but gives to little attention to the students actual clinical skills and capacity for clinical reasoning. Few teachers and too many students is one of the underlying reasons. On all my three visits I have discussed means to overcome this problem with the teacher group. Students are not encouraged to question the teachers and discussions are not common.
Lectures for the whole student group (140):
Eletrolyte and fluid balance in children: Physiology, common disturbances and their treatment, an interactive lecture.
Neonatal cardiology: pitfalls and problems for the clician in different clinical settings.
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Group lectures in relevant clinical situations: How to listen to the heart in children. Clincal investigation of the newborn. Feeding problems and their symptoms in small infants. Breastfeeding: the meeting point of physiology, psychology and social trends.
In the beside teaching I always try to relate to basic physiology and patophysiology.
Besides the teaching for the students one lecture was given for all the collegues at NPH on Psychiatric Disease in young adults born preterm. This was a follow up of my lecture at an earllier stay: Young adults born preterm: what is the general outcome.
Further I gave a lecture on an update meeting for specialists in pediatrics from the whole of Vietnam (350 participants i.e. around 60 % of all specialists in Vietnam): Problems and pitfalls in newborn cardiology: a neonatologists view.