Goal:
Students will gain knowledge and develop the clinical skills to diagnose and treat different etiologies of sore throat in the pediatric outpatient setting.
Objectives:
Following the outpatient pediatric rotation, students will be able to:
- Clinically examine a child's oropharynx
- Name common causes of sore throat in children (strep throat, viral pharyngitis, infectious mononucleosis, herpangina, postnasal drip, referred pain)
- Name and describe clinical signs related to sore throat (petechiae, exudate, cobblestoning, cervical adenopathy)
- Describe the accuracy of the rapid strep test
- Name the organism associated with strep throat and describe the antibiotic choice(s) to treat strep throat
- Describe possible complications associated with treated and untreated cases of strep throat
Resources:
AAP Red Book Chapter on Streptococcus
reviewed 12/2015
reviewed 12/2015
