The MOOC on Clinical Pediatrics is meticulously developed by the team led by Professor Yao Baozhen from the Department of Pediatrics, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, and the Pediatric Teaching and Research Section of the First Clinical College of Wuhan University. With clinical symptoms as the main axis, it is more in line with clinical practice. Welcome everyone to join the study of the Clinical Pediatrics MOOC!

Pediatrics is a medical science that studies the laws of children's growth and development, improves the quality of prevention and treatment of childhood diseases, and serves children. It is one of the core courses that students of various majors must study. Its content includes child health care, neonatology and neonatal diseases, diseases of various systems, genetic diseases, etc. The content is extremely rich, and pediatrics has developed extremely rapidly, having evolved into an independent disciplinary system parallel to adult medicine.

The teaching goal is to enable students to initially master or be familiar with the laws of children's growth and development and the basic theoretical knowledge of common pediatric diseases, including etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnostic and treatment principles, etc. It also requires students to independently collect medical histories, conduct physical examinations, and write complete medical records for common pediatric diseases, laying a solid foundation for them to engage in basic or clinical medical work after graduation.

The lecturers of this course all have senior professional titles and rich teaching experience. Through their different teaching methods, they aim to cultivate students' awareness and ability of independent learning, clinical thinking ability, ability to solve clinical problems independently, and doctor-patient communication ability based on humanistic care.

The Clinical Pediatrics MOOC focuses on the cultivation of clinical practical ability and covers the content of the licensing examination for practicing physicians and the main content of the undergraduate teaching syllabus. In a word, the Clinical Pediatrics MOOC is a pediatrics course that is more closely related to clinical practice with a symptom-oriented approach. It is not only suitable for undergraduate teaching but also for resident physicians, standardized training physicians, visiting physicians, etc. to study.