From the Academic Pediatric Association’s Educational Guidelines for Pediatric Residency Training
Key Topics
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
Adolescent Violence and Adolescent Mental Health
Advocacy
Advocacy Roles of the Pediatrician
Allergy and Immunology
Asthma –
Asthma and Asthma in Children
Career Planning
Case Management
Clinical Judgment
Common Conditions
Communication with Patients and Families
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Conditions Not Referred
Conditions Referred
Consultant’s Role
Consultants, Use of
Critical Reading
Cultural Sensitivity
Data Gathering
Decision-making
Developmental Disabilities / Mental Retardation
Diagnostic Studies and Procedures – Pathology and Radiology / Nuclear Medicine
Disaster Preparedness – Biodefense and Bioterrorism, Coping with Disasters, Man-Made Disasters and Natural Disasters
Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding
Environmental Health and Toxicants
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Care Systems
Health Promotion and Screening
Hematology and Oncology
Infectious Diseases Laboratory Procedures
Injury Screening and Prevention
Interviewing
Iron disorders – Iron Deficiency Anemia and Iron Overload
Leadership
Life-long Learning
Media
Medical Errors
Medical Home
Medical Informatics
Medical-legal Issues
Monitoring and Therapeutic Modalities
Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Normal versus Abnormal
Patient Education
Pediatrician’s Role in Community
Perinatal – Neonatology and High Risk Pregnancy
Personal Responsibility
Physical Examination
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Practice Choice
Practice Management
Procedures
Professionalism
Quality Improvement
School Performance – School and Learning Disorders
Sexuality – Sexual Health Issues and Teen Sexual Health
Signs and Symptoms
Teaching
Team Work
Telephone Medicine
Terminal Illness – Hospice Care and End of Life Issues
Therapeutics
Tobacco Use – Smokeless Tobacco and Smoking Cessation
Tonsillar / Adenoidal Hypertrophy
Trauma – Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, and Surgery
Violence – Domestic Violence and Teen Violence
Work Habits and Professional Responsibility
Pediatric Education 