Today, we will be reviewing what you need to know to examine your pediatric patients. Examining children is a bit of an art form and is often unfamiliar to clerkship students who may have a varied degree of experience being around children, may never have worked with children and may not have been exposed to pediatric patients in the pre-clinical years. In this episode, we discuss tips and tricks to get the exam you need on your pediatric patient with as little crying as possible.

1. How to examine a baby/infant
2. How to examine a toddler/preschool aged child
3. Focused information on the ear exam/otoscopy
4. How to examine a school aged child/teen
5. Engaging older children in your exam
6. Focused information on the genitourinary exam 
7. Presenting your physical exam during oral presentation

Resources/Links:

1. Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking by Lynn Bickley (your pediatric clinics will generally have a copy)

2. https://batesvisualguide.com

Links:

https://batesvisualguide.com/

About the Speaker:

Host: Shakun Gupta, MD – Shakun Gupta, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Clerkship Director at the University of Virginia. She completed her residency at Lurie Children's Hospital/Northwestern and joined UVA in 2014, where she practices general pediatrics and pediatric hospital medicine.

Clerkship Ready: Pediatrics is a podcast aimed at medical students doing their clinical clerkship in Pediatrics. The views expressed are the speakers' own and do not constitute medical advice.