Core Competency Overview

Children with medical complexity have complex chronic health conditions associated with significant functional status limitations requiring increased expertise, health services, and resources¹. In these Core Competency Webinars we will explore care coordination, social work considerations, feeding/nutrition considerations and overall nuances of caring for children with medical complexity.

A lot is considered when caring for children living with obesity. In these Core Competency Webinars we will explore metabolic comorbidities in relation to obesity while considering weight biases and stigma in healthcare. We will also discuss how to work with patients to start implementing lifestyle changes, once the appropriate strategies are identified.

The 3P approach will anchor these Core Competency Webinars. These webinars will give us an opportunity to look deeper into the methodology of physical, psychological and pharmacological strategies when managing pain in children and youth. These webinars will also explore pain conditions and motivational interviewing.

You don’t often hear about pediatric palliative care because it may be difficult to talk about death, especially with children. Death, however, is not all of what makes up palliative care, nor should we avoid talking about death. Death is the heart-breaking reality that is part of medicine. In these Core Competency Webinars, we talk about it all: paediatric palliative care, symptom management, helping families and end-of-life care.