PG DIPLOMA IN MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH

• Introduction to MCH: Worldwide importance and issues in maternal and child health.
• Mother and Child Health Determinants: Socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental.
• Public Health Policies: Policies in international and national maternal and child health.
• International Health Organizations: The contribution of WHO, UNICEF and other international agencies to improving the outcomes of MCH.

• Reproductive System and Health: Anatomy, physiology and normal reproductive health issues.
• Family Planning: Techniques, counseling and place of family planning in maternal health.
• Infertility Management: Management, Diagnosis and Treatment.
• Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Ethics, gender equality, and reproductive health.

• Prenatal Care: Major concepts of antenatal visits, antenatal screenings, and measurements.
• Nutrition in Pregnancy: Dietary requirements, supplements, and popular nutritional deficiencies.
• Pregnancy Complications: Gestational diabetes, hypertension, anemia and others.
• Psychosocial Pregnancy: Stress management, counseling and mental health.

• Labor and Delivery: Labor, birth practices, pain management, and emergency obstetric care.
• Obstetric Emergencies: Eclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, obstructed delivery and cesarean delivery.
• Postpartum Care: Maternal recovery, breastfeeding, and mental issues after birth.
• Family and Community Support: Family, midwives, and healthcare systems in postpartum care.

• Neonatal Physiology: Development and care needs of the infant.
• Neonatal Resuscitation: Emergency measures and procedures of dealing with infants during birth.
• Common Neonatal Conditions: Prematurity, jaundice, infections, and birth defects.
• Breastfeeding and Early Nutrition: The benefits of breastfeeding, challenges, and ways of effective breastfeeding.

• Growth and Development Milestones: Physical, cognitive, and emotional development of the period between birth and adolescence.
• Vaccination and Preventive Healthcare: Vaccines, schedules, and barriers to immunization.
• Popular Childhood Diseases: Acute respiratory, diarrhea, malnutrition, and childhood disease.
• Childhood Nutrition: Childhood nutritional complementary feeding, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity treatment in children.

• Basic Pediatric Life Support (BLS): Policies and procedures of dealing with pediatric emergencies.
• Treating Acute Infections in Children: Fever, sepsis and other infectious diseases.
• Childhood Injuries and Trauma: Prevention of Emergency management.
• Pediatric Pain Management: The treatment of Acute and chronic pain in children.

• Teen Pregnancy: Addressing the needs of teen mothers, adolescent mothers and education.
• Health of Rural and Underserved Populations: MCH issues and solutions in resource limited environments.
• Chronic Disease in Pregnancy: Diabetes, high blood pressure, and HIV in the health of the mother.
• Disability and MCH: Women and children with disabilities.

• Health Systems and Maternal Child Health: Empowering health infrastructure, workforce, and funding of MCH services.
• Community-Based Health Interventions: Community mobilization towards maternal and child health.
• Monitoring and Evaluation of MCH Programs: Program impact and outcome measurement and techniques.
• International MCH Programmes: International health funding, multisectoral partnerships, and sustainable development goals of the UN.

• Research Methods in MCH: The design, data collection, and analysis methods.
• Critical Appraisal of MCH Literature: How to interpret and use the results of research in clinical practice.
• Ethical Problems in MCH Research: Informed Consent, Privacy, and Ethics.
• Research to Practice: Making the evidence-based guidelines translate into clinical practice.

• MCH Leader skills: Strategic planning, decision making and managing teams.
• MCH advocacy: Policy advocacy, community mobilization, and public health campaigns.
• Healthcare Quality and Safety: Enhancing care delivery and patient safety in MCHs.
• Health Promotion and Education: MCH awareness and healthy behaviors in communities.

• Mental Health in Pregnancy and Postpartum: Frequent psychological problems in pregnancy and the postpartum years (e.g., prenatal depression, postpartum depression, anxiety).
• Mental Health Maternal Interventions: Psycho-social therapy, psychotherapy and pharmacotherapies.
• Childhood Mental Health: Early detection of mental health disorders in children, typical mental conditions such as ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and anxiety disorders.
• Promoting Mental Wellness: Approaches to enhance mental health outcomes of mothers and children with the help of community support, screening, and prevention programs.

• Advanced Obstetric Procedures: High-risk obstetrics, such as handling multiple pregnancy, abnormal presentations, and new state-of-the-art procedures throughout the labor and delivery process.
• Neonatal Intensive Care: Inpatient treatment of preterm and acutely ill newborns, including respiratory services (e.g. CPAP, mechanical ventilation), nutrition, and infection control.
• Perinatal Mortality: The causes of perinatal death, prevention, and management of stillbirths.
• Neonatal Following-Up: Post-hospital follow-up, developmental-follow-up, and intervention of at-risk neonates.

• Maternal and Child Health Global Health Challenges: Emerging infectious diseases (e.g., Zika, Ebola), maternal mortality, and global burden of childhood malnutrition.
• Health Systems Strengthening in Low-Resource Settings: How to enhance MCH service in low-resource areas and low-resource settings.
• International MCH Programs and Strategies: The contribution of NGOs and international aid organizations to the promotion of maternal and child health globally.
• Global Health Diplomacy and Policy: Participation in the international health policy making, and participation in international health forums such as the World Health Assembly.

• Child Abuse and Neglect: What is Child Abuse (physical, emotional, sexual), what are indicators and how does the abuse affect the development of a child?
• Legal and Ethical Aspects of Child Protection: Reporting and interaction with law enforcement, legal framework of child protection.
• Safe Sleep and Injury Prevention: Prevention of common childhood injuries (e.g., drowning, burns, falls) and provision of safe home environments to children.
• Community Child Protection Programs: Collaboration with local agencies to prevent, detect and intervene in cases of child abuse and neglect.

• Infant and Child Nutrition: Growth monitoring, introduction to solids, breastfeeding, and malnutrition.
• Obesity Prevention in Childhood: The risk factors of childhood obesity, interventions, and the promotion of healthy eating and physical activity.
• Micronutrient Deficiencies: Prevention and management of prevalent micronutrient deficiencies (iron, vitamin A, iodine) in children.
• Dietary Counseling: Methods of providing parental advice on child food, and the management of food allergies and food intolerances.

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• Simple and Complex Ultrasound in Pregnancy: Fetal measurements, heart rate evaluation and abnormalities.
• Diagnostic Imaging in MCH: Ultrasound, MRI and CT scan usage in identification of fetal and maternal complications.
• Genetic Screening and Diagnostics: Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), amniocentesis, and other diagnostic methods of chromosomal and genetic defects.
• Ethical Problems in Prenatal Diagnosis: Weighing the gains of early diagnosis against the ethical problem of abortion after the results.