Mastercourse Programme Outline
Mastercourse Title: Staying calm under pressure - acute paediatric survival tips
10 real-life cases. 1 goal: to boost your confidence when it matters most.
This full-day Mastercourse is designed to be interactive, practical, and immediately usable in your next shift. Work through acute scenarios step by step, debate solutions with peers, and walk away with survival tips you’ll never forget.
What to Expect:
Hands-on emergency training
sepsis, seizures, arrhythmias, respiratory distress, and delivery room crises.
Interactive case-based learning
sharpen your decisions through guided problem-solving, not passive listening.
Critical communication skills
handling high-pressure moments with patients, families, and teams.
Adolescent medicine focus
tackling complex scenarios, including obesity and mental health emergencies.
Quiz & rapid-response drills
test your reflexes, consolidate your knowledge, and take skills back to practice.
Top 10 Lectures:
- Short of breath, short on time: mastering paediatric dyspnea management
- Call to the delivery room - how not to panic
- Allergy emergencies
- Unconscious child: a step-by-step approach
- How to control a seizure - various seizures
- Spotting the invisible: mastering paediatric sepsis
- Teens in trouble - adolescent medicine
- When words don't work - communication with the patient but also non-verbal, graphic scales, use of translators, AI...
- Get back to the rhythm - arrhythmias on the night shift
- From Awareness to Action: How do we manage Obesity in adolescents ?
Programme Outline (Subject to change)
Sessions
Session A-C
Adolescent Medicine
How to get teens to sleep more and healthier?
Adolescent Medicine
Sexually transmitted infections
Adolescent Medicine
Menstrual disorders in adolescents
AI
AI tools in paediatric urgent care
AI
AI-assisted scientific work
AI
AI in patient care - opportunity or threat?
Cardiology
Clinical diagnostic workflow of cardiomyopathy in children – new European guidelines
Cardiology
Risk of sudden cardiac death in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Cardiology
Kawasaki disease in the post-pandemic era
Choosing Wisely & Drug Therapy
Off-label drug prescribing
Choosing Wisely & Drug Therapy
Antibiotics - optimizing prescribing
Choosing Wisely & Drug Therapy
Herbs and supplements – efficacy, safety, interactions
Session D-F
Dermatology
Dermatologic emergencies
Dermatology
Atopic dermatitis - beyond topical treatment
Dermatology
All colours of birthmarks
Diagnostics
Point-of-care ultrasound to improve the quality of your practice
Diagnostics
Lymphadenopathy: current approach to management
Diagnostics
TBC
Emergencies
Phoenix criteria for sepsis in children
Emergencies
Preparing and planning for the “What If’s” in an era of conflicts
Emergencies
Dental trauma in the paediatric office
Endocrine & Diabetes
Pharmacology treatment in childhood obesity - strategy and future
Endocrine & Diabetes
Advances in the treatment of paediatric prediabetes and type 2 diabetes
Endocrine & Diabetes
Update on congenital hypothyroidism
Ethics
Informed consent in paediatrics
Ethics
When families and clinicians disagree
Ethics
Children's rights in healthcare
Ann De Guchtenaere
Session G-I
Gastroenterology
Foreign bodies a-z
Gastroenterology
Faecal incontinence
Gastroenterology
TBC
Hematooncology
Paediatric palliative care
Hematooncology
Anticoagulants in practice
Hematooncology
Cellular therapies in paediatric oncology
Infectious Diseases
Changing face of invasive infections in children in the post-pandemic period
Infectious Diseases (EAP&ESPID)
TBC
ESPID
Infectious Diseases (EAP&ESPID)
TBC
ESPID
Session M-O
Miscellaneous I
All flavours of e-cigarettes
Miscellaneous I
Screening for early predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder
Miscellaneous I
Marijuana and THC - what paediatricians need to know
Neonatology
Screening tests in newborns
Neonatology
Long-term cardiovascular and renal complications of prematurity
Neonatology
Intrauterine exposure - not just alcohol and nicotine
Nephrology
What's new in childhood hypertension - will it make the paediatricians’ job easier?
Nephrology
TBC
Nephrology
TBC
Neurology (EAP&EPNS)
Neurological red flags
Neurology (EAP&EPNS)
Functional neurological symptom disorder
EPNS
Neurology (EAP&EPNS)
Seizures or non-seizure: diagnosis and management
Nutrition
Infant formulas supplemented with biotics.
Nutrition
Young Child Formula - who needs it?
Nutrition
TBC
Session P-R
Pain management
Pain management and use of opioids in outpatient settings
Pain management
Is it a real pain or is it just fantasy: understanding chest pain in paediatrics
Pain management
Nonpharmacologic therapies for pain and anxiety
Pediatricians
Psychosocial support for medical staff
Pediatricians
How to ask and answer - duty on call
Pediatricians
How to pass the European Pediatrics Exam
Psychiatry
Screening and helping patients with suicide risk
Psychiatry
Somatic problems in children with autism
Psychiatry
When and how can a pediatrician use SSRIs?
Pulmonology & Allergy
Drug allergy - demystifying
Pulmonology & Allergy
Single maintenance and reliever therapy of asthma (SMART)
Pulmonology & Allergy
The role of nebulization in treating children
Rare & Metabolic Diseases
From genotype to phenotype in rare diseases
Rare & Metabolic Diseases
TBC
Rare & Metabolic Diseases
TBC
Refugees and Migrants
Reproductive care for youth in immigrant families
Refugees and Migrants
TBC
Refugees and Migrants
TBC
Rheumatology
Red flags in children with joint pain
Rheumatology
TBC
Rheumatology
TBC
Session S-T
Sport medicine
The other side of the medal - the risks associated with professional sports among children and adolescents
Sport medicine
Young athletes - the role of the paediatrician
Sport medicine
Relative energy deficiency in sport
Surgery
Back pain in children
Surgery
Red flags of testicular disease
Surgery
TBC
Travel Medicine & Vaccines (EAP&ESPID)
A child on a trip to tropical countries
ESPID
Travel Medicine & Vaccines (EAP&ESPID)
RSV prevention
ESPID
Travel Medicine & Vaccines (EAP&JPS)
TBC
Japanese Pediatric Society
Plenary
Pediatrics as a life choice - what does it look like in Japan?
Japanese Pediatric Society
Paediatricians, ready for disaster?
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