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Topics covered last year in the fall/winter/spring series

  • Approach to the Sick Infant with Metabolic Acidosis
  • Getting a Handle on Child Psychiatry & Psychosomatic Illness
  • Immunizations
  • Hyperbilirubinemia
  • Prenatal Visits, Baby Books and More
  • Normal cardiac development and initial approach to infants with cardiac disease
  • Writing for Scientific Publication: Tips for Getting Started
  • Common Birth Defects
  • Pediatric Pain Conference
  • Neonatal Emergencies
  • Psychosomatic Illness
  • Newborn surgical emergencies
  • Antibiotics
  • Radiology of Child Abuse
  • Cystic Fibrosis Update
  • Diarrhea and gastroenteritis in office practice
  • Pediatric Stroke
  • Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Breastfeeding: Techniques and How to Support BF mothers
  • Floppy Infant
  • Neonatal infections
  • Positional Ventilatory Abnormalities
  • Human brain development
  • Williams Syndrome and other microdeletion syndromes
  • Leukocoria
  • Otitis media in the community
  • Pulmonary signs and symptoms
  • Meningitis and central nervous system infections
  • Advocacy issues: the child in their community
  • Head Imaging Overview
  • Lead: Evaluation and Treatment
  • AOM and treatment in the post-Prevnar Era
  • Solid tumors of childhood: 2
  • Pneumonia
  • Asthma in primary care
  • Toxic ingestions
  • Nutrition--Practical Advice
  • Urinary Crystals
  • Solid tumors of childhood: 1
  • Diarrhea and rehydration
  • Sepsis
  • Infections of the head and neck: Sinusitis, lymphadenitis, orbital cellulitis
  • Neurodevelopmental Guidelines: Clinical Assessment and Identification of Delay and Regression
  • Management of Chronic Illness in Primary Care
  • Childhood Injury and Prevention
  • Preventive cardiology in pediatrics
  • Asthma
  • Thyroid Diseases
  • Chest Radiology Overview
  • Palliative Care
  • Appendicitis and the approach to the surgical abdomen
  • Normal toddler/preschooler development
  • Childhood fractures
  • Pediatric Dentistry
  • Ethics Discussion: Should this Baby Live? Who Decides?
  • Developmental Screening in the Office
  • How Hypnosis Helps Kids
  • Developmentally Appropriate Pediatric Pain Management Strategies
  • Celiac Disease and malabsorption
  • Systems of Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs
  • Pediatric Sleep Disorders
  • MassHealth and the Health Care Reform Bill
  • GI/GU Imaging Overview
  • Disorders of Calcium and Phosphorus
  • Global health, visiting professor
  • Upper Respiratory Tract Infections
  • Hypertension
  • Diabetes as an outpatient: Pumps, pens, meters and more
  • Bacteremias and UTI
  • Brain Tumors
  • Allergy Topic Board review
  • Respiratory Failure
  • The "Ins and Outs" of the Scrotum: Hernias, Hydroceles and Undescended Testes
  • Childhood injuries in office practice
  • Nephrotic Syndrome
  • Refugee Medicine
  • Epilepsy
  • Resident As Educator
  • School Health
  • Media, pop culture and mental health
  • ADHD
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • Male pubertal issues
  • Flow abnormalities in the heart: ASD, VSD etc
  • Herbal Supplements
  • HIPPAA Headaches
  • Joint pain in childhood
  • Glomerular Diseases MORNING REPORT TIME
  • Introduction to Biofeedback
  • VATER and CHARGE associations
  • Violence Prevention in Pediatric Practice
  • Juvenile SLE
  • Headache
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Bright futures
  • Anorexia and Bulimia
  • Ethics Conference: Topic TBA
  • Depression and Suicide
  • Psychosomatic illness in the community
  • Media, pop culture and mental health
  • Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism
  • Introduction to Biofeedback
  • Growth and Puberty
  • Contraception
  • Acne Management
  • Food Allergies
  • Pregnancy