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For the past 30 years, Colby College has offered a pediatric course as part of Colby's continuing medical education programs.
This summer's course will provide a balanced update on a wide range of current,
clinically relevant topics for the practicing pediatrician.
The course features 45-minute lectures followed by 15-minute discussions. The faculty initiates the topics and facilitates the following discussions in a relaxed forum, which encourages the mutual exchange of views and data and allows ample time for participant-faculty interaction.
Colby has been host to educational programs for the medical and allied health professions since 1945 and is the only private liberal arts college in the nation accredited to offer Category 1 credit of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. Each summer the courses attract registrants from all across the country, and this diverse geographic representation enhances the exchange of ideas that course participants especially value. Our friendly, courteous staff, small course size, accessible faculty, and timely topics make a CME program at Colby a quality experience.
This educational experience is relaxed and informal. Come join us in Maine this summer.
Course Objectives
The Colby College Problems in Pediatrics course is intended to provide practical, up-to-date information for practicing pediatricians, family physicians, and other health care professionals. The overriding goal of all Colby CME is to improve patient care. Each day of the course will combine lectures and interactive case studies.
Confirmed Topics Include:
- ADHD treatment update
- Developmental-behavioral pediatric cases
- Vaccine update
- Potpourri of interesting infectious disease cases
- Childhood obesity: is insulin the enemy
- Growth hormone therapy: what can, can't, should, and shouldn't be done
- Immobilization techniques for common pediatric orthopaedic injuries-- Casting clinic 101
- Scoliosis update; management concepts for scoliosis in the young child
- Looking forward: Survivors of childhood cancer
- The hoof beats of zebras: Presentations of childhood cancer
- Pre-participation screening and sudden cardiac death
- Cardiology potpourri
- JRA update
- New concepts in fluids and electrolytes
In addition, interactive case studies will be presented and discussed.
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