Description
This one day course is designed to improve knowledge of young people’s health needs based on understanding the key physiological and developmental changes of adolescence.
The course will include an interactive lecture on the ‘HEADSS Assessment’ and a workshop on ‘Complex Adolescent Safeguarding’. Participants will explore why Young People’s health needs are different from the rest of the paediatric population and how services can adapt to meet these needs.
Speakers are all practicing clinicians, many of whom are actively engaged in research to improve young people’s health.
topics include:
Identify how young people’s health needs differ from the rest of the paediatric population and how services can adapt accordingly.
Know how to put the HEADSS assessment tool into practice.
Build on current understanding of growth and puberty during adolescence.
Improve knowledge of adolescent gynaecology.
Understand the safeguarding challenges in adolescent medicine.
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agenda
8.30 am
Registration
9.00 am
Welcome and introduction
9.15 am
The Case for Adolescent Medicine
Dr Lee Hudson, Consultant General Paediatrician, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
10.00 am
Growth and Puberty in Adolescence
Dr Hoong-Wei Gan, Clinical Research Fellow, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child health
10.45 am
Tea and coffee break
11.05 am
Communicating with Young People: An Interactive Lecture
Dr Billy White, Consultant Paediatrician in Adolescent Diabetes and Obesity, University College London Hospital
12.05 pm
The Adolescent Brain
Dr Anne-Lise Goddings,NIHR Clinical Lecturer, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child health
12.50 pm
Lunch
1.50 pm
Complex Safeguarding: An Interactive Workshop
Dr Jo Begent, Consultant in Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Named Doctor Child Safeguarding, University College London Hospital