Multimedia file presentations by students and faculty
IT and media technologies for the presentation of lecture material
Use software to present lectures and view slides and videos.
Study guide including presentation files and relevant international bibliography are available online to students through e-class.
Information about the course and instructors is available at the Pediatric Clinic secretariat.
Evaluation Method:
The examination / evaluation of the student is done at the end of the course with the presentation (70%) and his participation in written multiple choice questions (30%).
Objective Objectives/Desired Results:
Course objectives are
familiarizing students with the approach to the child in all age groups (newborn, infant, toddler and adolescent) either as a patient or in the context of a preventive examination.
Training in taking a history in Pediatrics as well as recording individual and family history. They will practice collecting information regarding the present disease and how this information will be evaluated and will guide us in the management of the case.
Knowledge of the differences between a child and an adult and how their physical development and psychomotor development are assessed.
The analysis of situations such as the transition to extrauterine life as a newborn, the value of preventive screening in childhood and adolescence, the prevention of infections through vaccinations and the role of nutrition in relation to the ultimate health of children.
In addition, the lecturers will analyze the physiology of all the systems of the human body (respiratory, cardiovascular, urinary, hematopoietic, immune, endocrine, nervous) as they function in all age groups of Pediatrics in order for the student to be able to better approach the pathophysiology of pediatric diseases.
Finally, the students, in collaboration with the lecturers and based on material that is posted in the e-class of the course, are invited to present part of the subject matter of the course in power point lectures.
General Skills
Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information (practical and theoretical)
Skill development
Decision making
Work in an interdisciplinary environment
Course URL :
The presentations and general course information will be gradually posted on e-class.
Course Description:
Obtaining a pediatric history
Clinical examination of a newborn
Clinical examination of infant and child
The normal full-term newborn
Adaptation to extrauterine life
Physical growth-normal puberty
Prematurity
Development – psychomotor development
Periodic preventive check-up in childhood
Nutrition – breastfeeding
Fluids and electrolytes in neonates and children and nutrient, mineral and trace element intake and vitamin D metabolism
Immune system physiology – Vaccines
Physiology of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems in children
Physiology of the hematopoietic and endocrine systems in children
Physiology of the urinary and nervous systems in children
Recommended reading:
BOOKS
«"The Normal Child. Introduction to Pediatrics". Authors: Faculty Members - Department of Child Health, University of Ioannina, NEON PUBLICATIONS, edition 2022, code evdoxos: 94642871
«"Textbook of Pediatrics" Authors: N. THALANGE, P. HOLMES, R. BEACH, T KINNAIRD, 1or edition 2012 PARISIANOU Scientific Publications S.A., code evdoxos: 12536758
