Presentation

Genitourinary Complaints

Key Conditions

Key conditions are the core conditions that the Paediatric Undergraduate and Clerkship Directors of Canada (PUPDOC) felt are essential for graduating medical students to know. The Key Conditions are neither a differential diagnosis nor a clinical approach. They highlight conditions that may be unique to paediatrics, that are essential, or that are common. Key Conditions can present in a number of ways – each is listed as under the most common Clinical Presentation.

Clinical Approach

Clinical approaches represent one of many methods to think through a clinical presentation, and narrow down a differential diagnosis. There are many conditions that can present with similar symptomatology. These presentations are not meant to contain an exhaustive list of differential diagnoses, but rather outline how to think through patient signs and symptoms, and understand some of the most common and important Paediatric conditions. There are many different ways to approach any clinical presentation, and these approaches are not meant to replace clinical judgement.

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A 5 year old girl is brought to medical attention due to pain with urination and increased urinary frequency for the last 2 days

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Pre-Clerkship

Lecture materials and small group cases are posted here for University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine students. Access to these materials are password protected.

Lectures

Small Groups

  • Pediatric Nephrology Small Group Course 6

Clerkship

Lecture materials and small group cases are posted here for University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine students. Access to these materials are password protected.

Objectives

By the end of the Paediatric Clerkship, a medical student will be able to:

  1. Interpret the results of a urinalysis.
  2. Describe the etiology and propose a management plan for primary and secondary enuresis.
  3. Clinically recognize and propose a management plan for IgA nephropathy and post-infectious glomerulonephritis.
  4. List the classification system of vesicoureteral reflux.
  5. Clinically recognize and propose a management plan for balanitis, phimosis, testicular torsion, and vulvo-vaginitis.
  6. Provide parents / guardians with information regarding circumcision.

Half Day Cases

  • A 7 year old child comes to your clinic due to bedwetting
  • A 4 year old girl comes in to your office with dysuria for 1 week
  • A 9 year old child presents to the emergency department with brown colored urine

Resources

The following resources have been reviewed and collated by canuc-paeds. These resources are aimed to provide information at the level of the medical student. These include overviews of topics, clinical resources, and useful guidelines that contain relevant materials.

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Last updated 08 August 2021.