Diploma in Child Health

The Goal of D.C.H. Program is to provide training in Pediatrics and Neonatology to produce
competent specialists who are able to provide basic and speciality care of the highest order to
neonates, infants, children and adolescents at the community level and at primary and
secondary levels of health care.

Course Structure:

I) Basic Sciences and Laboratory Medicine as applied to Pediatrics and Childhood
Diseases.
II) Clinical Epidemiology
III) Ethics in Pediatrics and Child Care
IV) Computers in Pediatrics
V) Pediatric and Neonatal Therapeutics
· Effects of physical and physiological changes on the pharmacokinetics of
commonly used medications in Pediatrics.
· Recognition of drugs that are contraindicated, and used with extreme caution in
specific pediatric populations.
· Effects of maternal therapy on the fetus and the neonate.
· Secretion of drugs in the breast-milk.
· Patient education and parent education for appropriate drug dosing, formulations
and administration techniques.
VI) Preventive Pediatrics
· National Health programs relevant to Pediatrics and Child Care.
· Epidemiology of common health problems and diseases.
· Vital statistics: Maternal Mortality Rate, Perinatal Mortality Rate, Neonatal
Mortality Rate, Under-5 mortality Rate: Definitions, National Status, Determinants,
Interventions aimed at reduction of the rates.
· National Immunization Programs and policies.
· Other vaccines not included in the National Immunization Program.