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Hospital Care for Children

Hospital Care for Children: education modules

Below are modules for the WHO Hospital Care for Children course which teaches health workers how to use the guidelines in everyday clinical practice.  The course teaches the 10 Stages of Management of all sick children: Triage, Emergency treatment, History and examination, Laboratory investigations, Main diagnosis and other diagnoses, Treatment, Supportive care, Monitoring, Discharge planning, and Follow-up.  The course can be done as a 4½ day workshop, or a module each week for 10 weeks.  It can be done in groups as a workshop or individually for self-learning as part of Continuing Medical Education for nurses and doctors. Practice using the guidelines in the wards is an essential part of learning.  The course material were last updated in February 2023.

Hospital Care for Children course timetable 2022