• Define overdiagnosis and its relevance to pediatric clinical care, and review the key barriers and successes in improving healthcare value.
• Evaluate complex inpatient pediatric cases through the analysis of four clinical conundrums, apply evidence-based reasoning to diagnostic and management challenges, and develop structured approaches to clinical decision-making.
• Integrate current pediatric vaccine recommendations with an understanding of caregiver concerns and misconceptions to apply empathetic, evidence-based communication strategies that support informed vaccine decision-making and maintain trust in clinical care.
• Integrate recognition of cerebrospinal fluid inflammatory biomarkers, knowledge of emerging medication classes for neuroinflammatory conditions, and identification of imaging features of infectious brain complications to inform diagnosis and management.
• Identify when electrocardiographic screening is indicated based on clinical context and pre-test probability, recognize clinically actionable ectopic findings and depolarization and repolarization abnormalities, and correlate these findings with suspected underlying arrhythmic diagnoses.

Learner Outcome

After attending this event, the participant will report an increase in knowledge related to the hospitalized pediatric and neonatal patient and increased confidence caring for the pediatric patient population in the rural hospital setting.