Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Biomedical Multimedia Unit

Child Growth and Development (in the first 12 months)

This program was developed to facilitate the teaching and learning of child growth and development. It allows students to observe the progressive growth and development of the same child over time, via the use of digitised video clips of the child performing age-related tasks and behaviours.

The program is structured around visits to the family home when the child is 2 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 12 months old. During these visits the parents raise concerns about their child's growth or development that students work through, before outlining the most appropriate advice. Child health and family issues such as feeding, crying, immunisation, Sudden Infant Death (SIDS), stranger anxiety and postnatal depression are introduced to students during relevant visits.

Curriculum Usage

The Child Growth & Development program is currently being used in semester 10 of the medical curriculum (510-610 Womens and Childrens Health) and in the medical curriculum at Monash University (MED5003). It has also been used in the Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing Practice (Paediatric stream) and the graduate Nurses programme (RCH).

Project Screen Grabs

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menu screen   Age-related icons on the menu screen provide access to each visit.
   
Expert guidance   Expert guidance is provided once students have identified the mother's concerns about her 3 month old child.

 
   
resources section   Movies of each of the five temperaments displayed by a newborn can be viewed in the resources section.

 
     
video clips   Students evaluate the developmental status of the child at 6 months by observing video clips and noting their observations.

 

     

Credits

Developed by the Biomedical Multimedia Unit in association with the Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne.

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