Virtual Medical Academy

Overview

VMA offers a crash course designed to offer broad exposure to a pediatric chest x-ray. The goal of the course is to support and guide interns, pediatric residents, and fellows in analyzing diagnostic imaging challenges in pediatric patients with diseases of the respiratory system and cardiology system. The course will be presented by a trusted medical professional.

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This Activity for

Nursing and Midwifery
Resident / Fellow
Physician
Radiological Technology

What I will learn?

By the end of the course the learner should be able to:
- Approach systematically a pediatric and adult chest radiograph.
- Differentiate common radiographic chest patterns in children with different chest disorders and how to arrange differential diagnoses in a logical manner.
- Evaluate the chest radiograph in children with known or suspected cardiac disease.
- Practice systematic approach based on heart size, pulmonary vasculature, airways, the situs of heart and abdomen, and bony abnormalities.
- Identify examples of common congenital and acquired heart disease in children.

Main Them

This course is comprised of two parts:
Part1:
How to Read Pediatrics Chest X-Ray? From a Pulmonologist View

Part2:
How to Read Pediatrics Chest X-Ray? From a Cardiologist View

Each lecture is 2 hours